New Hampshire Today, Sept. 7

In New Hampshire today Mitt Romney will release a part of his tax cut package before John Edwards arrives tonight at a house party.

Romney told the Associated Press about his plan to end all taxes on interest and dividends for those with less than $200,000 in income as a way to encourage people to save.

The Globe front-pages a look at how Fred Thompson's rivals are already trying to end his presidential campaign from the start.

A separate Globe story, datelined from Des Moines, looks at Thompson's first campaign events yesterday.

In state political news, the Union Leader reports that Democratic Congressman Paul Hodes will try to have a Congressional investigation into whether or not the White House played a role in the 2002 Republican phone jamming scandal that has led to three convictions.

The New Hampshire House Speaker, a Democrat, is calling state Senate Republicans "irresponsible" for not voting to fix a glitch over a new law upping the state's dropout age to 18.