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New Hampshire Business Needs Affordable Housing Too

By Mark Bevis on Monday, March 28, 2005.

A new report commissioned by the New Hampshire Workforce Housing Council has concluded that New Hampshire needs more affordable housing.

But this time the authors of the report didn't depend on working families for the data.

They went to the business community.

NHPR's Mark Bevis has more.

To see the Council's Report, click here.

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Tamworth Track Raises Questions of Local Control

By Rebecca Kaufman on Monday, March 28, 2005.

Late last week, The House Municipal and County Government Committee rejected a bill that really doesn't have much effect on most New Hampshire Communities. The bill was an attempt to repeal legislation that slipped through barely noticed last year. That law exempts certain kinds of automobile tracks from local regulation. But despite testimony from local residents overwhelmingly against the law, the House committee sided against them. And as New Hampshire Public Radio’s Rebecca Kaufman reports, both sides argue they were acting with local interests in mind.

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A Runner's Passion

By John Walters on Monday, March 28, 2005.

Marshall Moore is a writer, competitive athlete, coach, and antiques dealer. He's 48 years old and has been incorporating the effects of Parkinson's Disease in his life and work for 14 years. His running times are formidable for any athlete; he gives John Walters his philosophy of a life fully lived.

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Senator John Sununu

By Laura Knoy on Monday, March 28, 2005.

New Hampshire's junior Republican Senator will be with us to discuss the big issues on Capitol Hill, including social security, oil drilling in Alaska and the federal budget. Laura's guest is John Sununu.

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