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This week, a US House and Senate Conference Committee is hammering out a compromise version of President Bush's Education Bill. One issue under debate is whether to implement full funding of the Government's share of special education costs. 26 years ago, Congress passed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA, and also promised to pay 40% of the average per pupil cost. But Congress put up no money for it and today the law is drastically underfunded. The mandate stretches town budgets, divides local communities, and has united the New Hampshire Legislature. But three members of NH Congressional delegation appear to be in no hurry. NHPR's Carolyn D'Aquila reports.

DESPITE THE EFFORTS OF FISH BIOLOGISTS IN FOUR STATES��.THE NUMBER OF SALMON RETURNING TO THE CONNECTICUT RIVER HAS FALLEN TO ITS LOWEST LEVEL IN 18 YEARS.
A SPOKESMAN FOR CONNECTICUT�S DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION SAYS THE NEWS HAS LEFT THEM SHELLSHOCKED.
NHPR�S LISA PEAKES SPOKE WITH JAY MCMENEMY, A FISHERIES BIOLOGIST WITH VERMONT�S DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE.

The Seacoast town of Newington may be poised to stage its own revolution to protest the statewide property tax. As Correspondent Roger Wood reports, residents are looking to the State's Constitution for their right to revolt.

The auction includes a training demonstration, but an advocate for the horses cautions prospective buyers to treat the training process with care.

Is smoking a public health issue or a matter of individual rights? Is safeguarding its citizens from second-hand smoke - a carcinogen as deadly as asbestos - a city's responsibility? Those questions are being debated in Keene, where the city government is considering banning smoking in all restaurants. Restaurants that double as bars would have to fully separate the two areas. The Keene
Sentinel's Teal Krech reports.