LISBON — The town council agreed Tuesday to spend more than $3,000 from the downtown tax increment financing account to install a fence atop the retaining wall at the Booker Street parking lot.

The insurers, which are paid by state and federal governments to cover low-income Medicaid recipients ... and paid for—in other states, a Wall Street Journal analysis of Medicaid data found.

The first sign of trouble is a call from the dogged but ultimately blown-off fictional Wall Street Journal reporter Bart Nixon. (Put your questions in an email, Bart, Tim’s busy.) ...