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Valentine's Day

By Laura Knoy on Thursday, February 14, 2002.

Let's get sappy! This Valentine's Day we're going to tell love stories. We especially want to hear yours too. Call-in or email now to exchange@nhpr.org. How did you meet and fall in love with your sweetheart? Laura's guest is Union Leader columnist John Clayton www.johnclayton.net.

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Singing the Blues, From First-Hand Experience

By John Walters on Thursday, February 14, 2002.

Mighty Sam McClain grew up in Louisiana. He fled an abusive home at age 13 and got into the music business. It's been an up and down life- brushes with success and stretches of homelessness. Now, he's living in New Hampshire and singing old school R-and-B in the US and overseas. www.mightysam.com

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Senate Committee Doesn't Agree with the Governor

By Dan Gorenstein on Thursday, February 14, 2002.

With a severe drought and controversial water bottling plant proposal as the backdrop, water legislation swirling around the statehouse is becoming more impassioned. That debate includes a proposal, with backing from the Governor, which would grant municipalities more control over the permitting of large commercial groundwater withdrawals. NHPR?s Dan Gorenstein reports.

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Campaign Finance Reform and the Granite State

By John Milne on Thursday, February 14, 2002.

The U.S. House passes Shays-Meehan campaign finance reform, but even if the bill becomes law it will be too late for what may be the most expensive campaign in NH History. Political commentator John Milne has these thoughts.

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That Ain't No Cat!

By Rosemary Conroy on Thursday, February 14, 2002.

Though Fishers are elusive nighttime roamers who prefer climbing in trees, they seem to be adaptive enough to survive in urban places like Manchester.

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