( Nashua Telegraph ) CONCORD – The State Senate bowed to the will of Gov. John Lynch and blocked New Hampshire from becoming the 14th state to legalize possession of medical marijuana for chronically ill patients and their caregivers. After three months of private lobbying, no minds were changed in the Senate as today’s 14-10 vote to override Lynch’s veto of the bill (HB 648) came up two votes shy of the mandatory, two-thirds majority. Hollis Democratic Sen. Peggy Gilmour co-founded the stat

“I am no longer going to throw my vote away by giving it to the party,” he vows, confirming Gingrich’s fears of independent challengers splitting Republicans in purple districts into conservative and moderate camps next year and handing the district to the Democrat. In fact, I thought of Beck and his “In or Out” litmus test (which he touched on briefly tonight) while writing this post last week. Given his activist ambitions, it’s easy to imagine him using his show to encourage and promote a va

The Good News Economist submits: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has proposed a new version of a popular home-buyer tax-credit extension. Folks close to the matter claim a vote on the proposal is coming shortly. Another recent Senate alternative would continue the $8,000 credit for four months and then gradually phase it out after that. Current law has the credit expiring at the end of November. Complete Story »

Jean Todt has won the election to be the next President of the FIA following a vote of the General Assembly held on Friday in Paris. Todt, the former Ferrari sporting director - and outgoing president Max Mosley’s preferred candidate - defeated former rally champion Ari Vatanen by 135 votes to 49. The Frenchman now holds a four-year mandate at the head of the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile. Also elected were Todt’s list of candidates: among the major nominations, Nick Craw (Autom

* The New York Times reports what I noted here yesterday: The public option with the “trigger” is still very much alive in the Senate: In the Senate, Mr. Reid is considering several alternatives to his proposal for a national public insurance plan. Under one alternative, the public plan would be established, or triggered, only in states that failed to meet certain goals for insurance coverage. Yesterday I noted that the Senate leadership’s vote counting showed that the trigger was