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Later this week a committee of state lawmakers is expected to vote on ?The Clean Power Act? -- a bill designed to reduce emissions from the three-coal-and-oil fired power plants owned by PSNH. Much of the debate over the bill centers on trading. Trading enables power plants to buy pollution credits from other plants that have done a better-than-required job of reducing their emissions. The debate in Concord is whether trading offers the best means of improving New Hampshire?s air. NHPR?s Doug MacPherson reports.

Joe Monninger and his partner were looking for a place to live. They came accross a barn in Warren and it was love at first sight. The barn had been fixed up as a summer place, but not as year-round residence. Joe and Wendy bought it and then began the race to make it livable before the onset of winter. Joe's written a book, called "A Barn in New England," about the ups and downs, the surprises of all kinds, of settling into a very different kind of home.