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Ethics Committee Delays Decision On Chandler

By Dan Gorenstein on Monday, November 22, 2004.

The Legislative Ethics Committee has postponed its decision on the case against House Speaker Gene Chandler.

House Speaker Chandler has been accused of taking gifts worth more than $250 from lobbyists and political action committees with a vested interest in statehouse business.

New Hampshire Public Radio's Dan Gorenstein has more.

NHPR's series on Gene Chandler's fundraising earned the 2004 Sigma Delta Chi Award for Radio Investigative Reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists.

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Should God be on Public Access T.V.?

By Rebecca Kaufman on Monday, November 22, 2004.

Should God be on Public Access television? It’s a question being raised in the small town of Sandown. And the debate is pitting two first amendment ideas against each other…the separation of church and state verse freedom of speech. New Hampshire Public Radio’s Rebecca Kaufman has the story.

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A Century of November

By John Walters on Monday, November 22, 2004.

A Century of November is the new novel by W.D. Wetherell. It?s set at the end of World War One and tells the story of a Canadian apple farmer, whose son is killed in the war. He decides to go to the front lines himself, to see the spot where his son died. It?s almost a literal descent into hell, to the devastated battlefields of the Great War.

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Spam Kings

By Laura Knoy on Monday, November 22, 2004.

Behind the flood of emails to your inbox is a group of people known as spammers. A new book looks into the mindset of these kings of spam and why they do what they do. It also looks at the people who do battle with spammers and why it's so hard to put them out of business. Laura's guest is Brian McWilliams, Business and Technology Reporter who writes for Wired News, Salon.com, and O'Reilly Network.

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