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Attorney General Peter Heed

By Laura Knoy on Wednesday, March 12, 2003.

New Hampshire’s new attorney general was Cheshire County attorney before taking his new position. We’ll talk with Heed about his experience and his overall criminal justice philosophy. www.state.nh.us/nhdoj Laura Knoy hosts.

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Living Without Health Insurance: The Personal Toll

By Jon Greenberg on Wednesday, March 12, 2003.

About 100,000 people in NH are without health insurance.
As part of NHPR’s Project Health, our ongoing coverage of health care in the Granite State, we spent some time with one couple that faces this problem.
Like most families that lack insurance, one person in the household has a full time job.
While work is good to have, the income from that job puts this family in the gray zone of health care.
Their wages are barely enough to meet their immediate needs, but too high for them to qualify for government help.
NHPR’s Jon Greenberg reports

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The Two Sides of Jack Kerouac

By John Walters on Wednesday, March 12, 2003.

The novelist is remembered as a rootless rebel, but he frequently wrote about his French-American family- many of whom lived in Nashua. We?ll hear about Kerouac?s Nashua connection, and the two sides of his life and work, from Kerouac scholar and Unitarian minister Stephen Edington. Today is Kerouac?s birthday.
http://lckorg.tripod.com/lowellcelebrateskerouac/

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