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Interest rates are up, rents are down, housing prices have cooled but homebuilding is skyrocketing. We examine the changing trends of real estate in the Granite State. Laura's guests are Ross Gittell, Associate Professor of Management and the University of New Hampshire's Whittemore School of Business and Economics. Robert Dunning, a buyer broker, homebuilder and residential land developer for Robert E. Dunning Inc in Concord and Walter Molony, Spokesman for the National Association of Realtors.

Suffragists won the right to vote 83 years ago this week. We'll look at how women cast their ballots today, how candidates try to appeal to them and the so called "gender gap". Laura's guests are Debbie Walch, Director of the Center for American Women and Politics, part of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University and Nora Bredes, Director of the Anthony Center for Women's Leadership at the University of Rochester.

Just five months before the New Hampshire Democratic Primary and there?s talk of Al Gore, Joe Biden, even General Wesley Clark entering the race. We'll talk about what?s behind these efforts and whether a ?White Knight? will help or hurt the Democrats. Laura's guests are Jennifer Donohue, Senior Advisor for Political Affairs at the St. Anselm College Institute of Politics, and Dean Spiliotes, former Dartmouth Professor and now Visiting Scholar at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics.

It almost sounds like role reversal. Some New Hampshire teens are working to pass a bill to hold adults and youth more responsible for "knowingly" hosting underage drinking. But to their surprise, certain legislators are condemning the idea saying it goes too far. Who should be held responsible for underage drinking? Laura's guests are Senator Frank Sapareto from Derry, and Kaitlin Reilly and Andrew McLean, two teens who support the bill.

The Texas sodomy law, the election of an openly gay Episcopal bishop , same sex marriage, and the first gay high school. Issues over gay rights seems to be inundating our headlines. We'll discuss what's behind this surge and the degree that it might play a factor in the elections of 2004. Laura's guests are TBA.