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Political Money is Good to Have But No Guarantee

By John Milne on Monday, April 5, 2004.

The Democrats hope to announce their challenger to Governor Benson, the incumbent Republican, in the next week or so.

Finding a candidate comes along with the need to pay for a campaign.

And as New Hampshire Public Radio correspondent John Milne reports, the Democrats increasingly find their campaign money out of state.

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Revisiting Corporate Scandal

By Mike Arnold on Monday, April 5, 2004.

In the wake of the Tyco mistrial, we'll look at the lessons we have learned from corporate scandal. Have we turned a new page on the wave of corporate fraud from 2001, has corporate culture changed in the United States and what are businesses doing to prevent future scandal? Mike's guests are Sydney Finkelstein, Steven Roth Professor of Management at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business and author of Why Smart Executives Fail and What You Can Learn from their Mistakes and Michael Hoffman, Executive Director of the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley College.

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The Blues- Up Close and Personal

By John Walters on Monday, April 5, 2004.

As a young man in Atlanta, UNH professor Roger Brown spent much of his teens and twenties tracking down and recording blues artists that had long been forgotten by the 1960?s. Some of his field recordings were later released. He's no longer doing field work, but his passion for gut-bucket blues continues. He teaches a course on the blues and gives talks in the community about the music. We take a dip into the blues pool, including sampling some of Roger's recordings.

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New Bio-Diesel Terminal Opens in NH

By Dianne Finch on Monday, April 5, 2004.

Next time you smell French fries or fried chicken, the odor may be coming from an exhaust pipe.

Bio-diesel, a natural fuel generally made from soybeans, is growing in popularity.

Nationwide, use of the biodegradable fuel has grown from a few hundred thousand gallons a year in the early 1990s to over 25 million gallons last year.

And the state's first biodiesel Storage terminal has just opened in North Stratford ready to supply fuel across New Hampshire.

NHPR Correspondent Dianne Finch has the story.

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