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ArchivesIraq Views Part 4By Dan Gorenstein on Monday, December 12, 2005.Today we present the final installment in our series of perpectives from people who have spent significant time in Iraq. The debate among politicians is whether the US is enflaming or calming the almost daily violence in that country. Today, we hear from Cliff Kindy, a member of several Christian Peacemaker Teams. Kindy has spent five months every year of the last three years in Iraq. NHPR's Dan Gorenstein produced this report. listen:
  The Fate of the New Hampshire PrimaryBy Laura Knoy on Monday, December 12, 2005.Once again the New Hampshire "First in the Nation" Primary is in jeopardy of losing it's status… but this time it looks even more dangerous. In an attempt to give states with a higher minority population a larger say, a National Democratic Party Commission will come out with a report on Saturday recommending its schedule of 2008 calendar that would put a few extra caucuses between the "First in the Nation" Iowa Caucus and the "First in the Nation" New Hampshire Primary. Today on the Exchange we'll examine this report, how serious it may be to the New Hampshire Primary and what New Hampshire Democrats and Republicans plan to do next. Laura's guests are Dante Scala, Associate Professor of Politics at Saint Anselm College, author of "Stormy Weather: The New Hampshire Primary and Presidential Politics" and editor of the political blog GRANITEPROF. Senator Lou D'Allesandro, New Hampshire Democratic Senator from Manchester. Rep. Jim Splaine, State Representative of Portsmouth and Newington, who sponsored 1975 and 1999 legislation that required New Hampshire to be first. Dan Kemmis, Former Mayor of Missoula, and a former Speaker and Minority Leader of the Montana House of Representatives. Dan Kemmis is currently a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Rocky Mountain West at the University of Montana and a leading advocate for an early primary in a western state. Warren Henderson, New Hampshire Republican State Committee Chairman and TBA. listen:
NH's Primary Status, Eugene McCarthy, and Playwright Scarlett SavageBy Shay Zeller on Monday, December 12, 2005.As Democrats debate the future of New Hampshire's Primary, we look back on the life of a man who knew it well. Former Senator Eugene McCarthy died this weekend. We'll look back at his unsuccessful bid for the presidency and what it said about New Hampshire politics. Dean Spiliotes joins us to put McCarthy's 1968 run into perspective. Spiliotes is Director of Research at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at St. Anselm College. Later in the show we'll get to know Seacoast playwright Scarlett Ridgway Savage. She got an impressive jumpstart in eighth grade when E.B. White wrote to congratulate her for her play adaptation of his book Charlotte's Web. Since then the Maine native has been writing prolificly. Her play "Dear Daddy, Love, Cassie" has played on the Seacoast and in Boston; a publisher is behind her effort to make it a novel, and Miramax and Samuel Goldwyn are knocking at her door. We'll talk with Scarlett about her work, theater in New Hampshire, and the use of humor in raw dramatic material. This edition of The Front Porch was awarded an 2005 Honorable Mention for Public Affairs Programs by the New Hampshire Associated Press Broadcasters Association. listen:
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