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New Hampshire's food bank is short on supplies, while the number of people needing food is rising. We'll talk about what's behind the shortage, how food is distributed, and what you can do to help alleviate hunger in your community. Laura's guests are Eileen Brady, a social worker with the Nashua Soup Kitchen and Shelter www.nsks.org, Terry Smith is food stamp program manager at NH Department of Health and Human Services and Al Tremblay is executive director at the New Hampshire Food Bank.

A weekly newspaper in Manchester has won its fight to get into the city?s arena. A judge ruled yesterday that the HippoPress weekly has the right to be distributed at Verizon Wireless Arena. The arena?s management had signed an exclusive contract with the Union Leader newspaper. But Superior Court Judge Arthur Brennan found that if the Verizon Wireless allows one paper, it must allow them all. The judge gave the arena twenty days to stop distributing the Union Leader, or start distributing both papers. Union Leader publisher Joe Mcquaid said yesterday his paper will likely appeal. Mcquaid said the arena is not a public forum, and the Union Leader wants to protect its marketing arrangement. Hippo Press Publisher Jody Reese spoke with NHPR?s Trish Anderton.