Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
The U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee rejects legislation supported by President Bush to relax the Clean Air Act; political analyst Linda Fowler assesses Howard Dean’s first weeks as Democratic National Committee chair; state revenues are down a bit in the last month; the Windham Regional Commission urges the Public Service Board to wait for the Legislature to weigh in before it rules on Vermont Yankee’s request for dry-cask storage; Elsewhere, a group of telecommunications experts says communities in northern New Hampshire could be linked to create a network of affordable high-speed computer and technology services.
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