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Portsmouth School Officials Face a Tight Budget

By Raquel Maria Dillon on Thursday, January 16, 2003.

Advocates for the deaf came out in force last night to ask the Portsmouth School Board to keep their program for deaf and hard of hearing students… But Portsmouth schools are facing drastic budget cuts and layoffs. NHPR’s Raquel Maria Dillon reports.

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NPR's Corey Flintoff

By Laura Knoy on Thursday, January 16, 2003.

You know his voice well. Every evening he delivers the NPR newscasts during All Things Considered. We?ll talk with the public radio veteran about his early days as a radio producer in rural Alaska, his recent trip to Mongolia, where he taught radio journalism and production, and his adventures as a dog-musher and commercial herring fisherman. www.npr.org/about/people/bios/cflintoff.html

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The Hardscrabble Chronicles

By John Walters on Thursday, January 16, 2003.

Three decades ago, Laurie Bogart Morrow moved from the suburbs of New York to a small village in New Hampshire. It was a culture shock at first, but now she says she wouldn't live anywhere else. She calls her town "Hardscrabble" in a new collection of stories about her friends and neighbors. This interview originally aired in July 2002.

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Governor Nominates New HHS Commissioner

By David Darman on Thursday, January 16, 2003.

Governor Craig Benson has nominated Nicholas Vailas(Vay-les) to be New Hampshire's next Health and Human Services Commissioner.

NHPR's David Darman has more.

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Eric L Plaintiffs Sue NH Again

By Mark Bevis on Thursday, January 16, 2003.

Plaintiffs have filed suit in U.S. District Court in Concord against the state of New Hampshire.

They charge the state has not complied with its five year old settlement agreement in the Eric L. case.

That case alleged that the state's treatment of abused and neglected children violated federal law.

Kenneth Barns is the litigation director at New Hampshire Legal Assistance, and one of the plaintiff attorneys.

He described the new legal action to NHPR's Mark Bevis.

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