Democratic Senate hopeful Paul Hodes is expected to weigh in definitively on the pending, national health care reform bill.
     Last week, the cautious, two-term Congressman Hodes said he’d take time to read the 1,900-page measure that his New Hampshire colleague, Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter, had endorsed.
      Hodes has already embraced the concept of a public [...]

  Former Attorney General Kelly Ayotte makes official her US Senate run this Saturday afternoon at Bicentennial Elementary School in Nashua.
   Ayotte, a Nashua resident, returns to her grade school alma mater to make the 2 p.m. announcement that has been several months in the making.
    The Sunday Telegraph first reported when Ayotte would make the plunge [...]

 
   Former Gov. and Republican State Chairman John H. Sununu has snagged a heavy hitting GOP figure for a fund-raiser next month.
    House Republican Leader John Boehner will headline the $100-per-person event at the Grappone Center in Concord Nov. 13.
     Boehner is one Washington political figure with big ambitions who has not been a Granite State [...]

 
 
  While state Democratic leaders remain focused upon Republican Senate candidate Kelly Ayotte’s big fund-raising trip to Washington today,  Democratic Paul Hodes is raising his own cash today.
    Iowa Congressman Bruce Braley is Hodes’ special guest for today’s event at Cornerstone Public Affairs, a DC lobbying group.  
    Tickets are at least $500 a head [...]

   We price checked some of the equipment items that raised eyebrows before the Legislative Fiscal Committee last week. They were among the $2.9 million in expenses that Lynch agreed to waive from a freeze on equipment purchases.
The now infamous SigPro pistols cost the Liquor Commission $900 apiece for its investigators. We found the same [...]

 
   Former US Sen. John E. Sununu will confirm tonight that he will not seek a vacant Senate seat in 2010, opening up a scramble for potential, Republican candidates.
     Sununu, 44, lost a tight and expensive rematch to Democrat Jeanne Shaheen in 2008 and since then has landed some key appointments to corporate boards and a [...]

 
   The entry of former, Democratic State Sen. Bobby Stephen into the Nashua mayoral campaign today sure complicates things for Manchester GOP Sen. and fellow candidate Ted Gatsas.
    For several weeks, Gatsas had been trying through back channels to convince Stephen, a retired, state jobs official, to stay out of the fight to replace Frank [...]

   CONCORD [-] Sen. Judd Gregg and ex-Sen. John E. Sununu, both lead Democratic Congressman Paul Hodes in head-to-head polls for the Senate seat Gregg intends to vacate in 2010 according to an independent poll released today.
   Gregg’s lead over Hodes, 52 percent to 36 percent for Hodes, is much larger than the five-point lead [...]

 
   Democrats stepped up their get-out-the-vote effort eight days in advance of a State Senate special electon.
    The political office of Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter, D-NH, sent an e-mail blast urging supporters to devote as much time and $$$ as they’re able to help elect Democrat Bud Martin of Sandwich in Senate Dist. 3 on April [...]