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Jeb Bradley

By Laura Knoy on Tuesday, August 5, 2003.

We’ll be talking to the freshman congressman from Wolfeboro about a wide variety of things, including Iraq, the economy, and his controversial vote on prescription drugs. We’ll also take your calls. Laura's guest is Jeb Bradley.

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A Boost Up for Mobile Home Owners

By Dan Gorenstein on Tuesday, August 5, 2003.

People who live in mobile home parks are in an unusual situation.

Many own their manufactured homes, but they don’t own the land their house sits on.

Their landlords can raise lot rents, ignore maintenance needs or even close down the entire mobile home park.

Simply packing up the mobile home and finding a new park is expensive, and sometimes impossible.

But as New Hampshire Public Radio’s Dan Gorenstein reports, the Granite State is a national leader in efforts to give these residents more control of their lives by turning them into park owners.

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A New Hampshire Furniture Master

By John Walters on Tuesday, August 5, 2003.

Newport resident Terry Moore is a completely self-taught woodworker. (Originally from Wales, he settled in New Hampshire after the rock musical he was touring with disbanded, but that's another story.) He started as a carpenter and now he creates one-of-a-kind furniture. One of his pieces is in the permanent collection of the Currier Museum. He's one of the founders of the New Hampshire Furniture Masters and he runs the Furniture Masters' training program at the state prison in Concord.

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