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I am frustrated!

By Pat Barss on Wednesday, January 7, 2004.

I got a call today from my contact at NHPR - wondering why I had not "blogged" lately. My response to him was that I was frustrated and feeling a little apathetic about the "Urban Democratic" discussions I have had with my fellow voters of late. One of my responsibilities as the NH Pen Pal for this project is to be the ears and eyes around town - see what people are thinking and saying and then post it on this website. Well, I have been doing just that and I am dissapointed in the responses I am getting - I have even begun to question my own commitment to the process!

The New Populists

By Chris Martin on Wednesday, January 7, 2004.

Upon my return from holidays out of Iowa, I was confronted by a backlog of automatic phone messages (thanks Edwards and Dean folk) and about 20 different mailings, most from Gephardt, but also Edwards, Kerry, and Dean.

Several of the new mailings demonstrate a significant theme of this Democratic field: all of the candidates' rhetoric is much less conservative than it was four years ago. (The exception is Lieberman, who is still campaigning like it's 1999 and has seen his ratings slip from one-time leader to also-ran.)

Senator John Kerry

By Laura Knoy on Wednesday, January 7, 2004.

In our third interview with Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, we talk about the campaign and tackle the big issues of the economy, healthcare and Iraq.

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Inspiring Biographies for Young People

By John Walters on Wednesday, January 7, 2004.

When illustrator Gloria Kamen was a child, her medium was sidewalk and chalk. She went on to study art and enjoy a long career as a theatre cartoonist, children?s book writer and illustrator for a series of books by Miss Manners. Now she has created an anthology of inspiring biographies for young people and their parents. Heading Out:The Start of Some Splendid Careers tells inspiring stories from the lives of such notables as Dan Rather, Nelson Mandela, Lance Armstrong and her cousin, NH inventor Dean Kamen.

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Home State Record: Carol Moseley-Braun

By Jenny Lawton on Wednesday, January 7, 2004.

Today in our series on the home-state records of the Democratic presidential candidates we look at Carol Moseley Braun.

As Jenny Lawton from Chicago Public Radio reports, Braun has been a symbol of both controversy and hope in Illinois.

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