By Kevin Landrigan, The Telegraph, Nashua, N.H. Apr. 29--CONCORD -- The Senate leader on the retirement of public employees offered a bill Monday dramatically different than the one the House of Representatives approved last month. State Sen.

By Kevin Landrigan, The Telegraph, Nashua, N.H. Apr. 25--CONCORD -- The state Senate blocked a move Thursday to give cigar bars an exemption from the ban on smoking in all restaurants and cocktail lounges. The tactic appeared to kill this House-approved bill for the 2008 session.

By Kevin Landrigan, The Telegraph, Nashua, N.H. Mar. 14--CONCORD -- An ambitious plan to blunt the taxpayer impact of looming increases in public pension costs won the backing of two key House committees Thursday.

By Kevin Landrigan, The Telegraph, Nashua, N.H. Jan. 23--CONCORD -- Roland and Bonnie Currier, of Middleton, said New Hampshire should become the nation's first state to make a patient without health insurance equally likely to get an organ transplant. Nicholas Currier, 21, died Jan.

By Kevin Landrigan, The Telegraph, Nashua, N.H. Jun. 8--CONCORD -- A new group that would be charged with developing and managing the return of commuter rail from Lowell, Mass., through Nashua and on to Manchester, survived a key test in the Legislature on Thursday.