5 Things: Affordable Care Act Sign Ups Begin Today

1. Affordable Care Act Sign Ups Begin Today: New Hampshire enrollment starts Tuesday for new insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act, according to the Associated Press. Anyone without insurance or who is seeking to replace their existing coverage can shop for health plans by clicking here. The deadline to purchase coverage for 2014 is March 31. Even if the government shuts down Tuesday, it isn't expected to impact the start of the enrollment period.
[To read the full AP story, click here.]

2. Vendor Night at the Elks:  Help support Nashua Crusaders Youth Cheer and Football organization at Vendor Night Oct. 2 from 6 to 8 p.m. Details here.

3. Rotisserie Chicken is the New Fast Food: If you have grabbed a chicken from the supermarket and tried to transform into something exciting for dinner, you're not alone. Here are some great ways to make that chicken work for you, courtesy of Parade.

4. Speaking of Fast Food...: The amount of time that consumers are spending waiting in lines at fast-food drive-thru windows is getting longer, not shorter, mostly due to the growing complexity of new products that the major fast-food chains are selling. This, according to 2013 Drive-Thru Performance Study conducted for QSR Magazine, a fast-food industry trade publication. Read more here.

5. Life Limits Art: Two television projects focused on Hillary Clinton got the axe Monday after filmmaker Charles Ferguson, responsible for the CNN documentary, said he could not complete the project because he'd received no cooperation from either Democrats or Republicans. Ferguson, wrote a scathing online essay, saying that the Democrat's camp froze him out and that Republicans had grumbled about meddling in the 2016 presidential race. Read all about it here.