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Speaker Reverses Course on Cig Tax

By Josh Rogers on Friday, April 8, 2005.

House Speaker Doug Scamman says he now supports a key provision of Governor Lynch's proposed budget -- a 28 cent per pack increase to the cigarette tax. Scamman's announcement comes as lawmakers continue working to balance the state's next two year spending plan

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Long Term Care Week

During the week of April 4th - 8th, The Exchange and the NHPR News Department took a look at the issue of Long Term Care in the Granite State.

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Medical Malpractice Panel Passes Senate

By Dan Gorenstein on Friday, April 8, 2005.

The Senate has passed a measure that would create a panel to screen medical malpractice cases before they go to trial.

New Hampshire Public Radio's Dan Gorenstein reports.

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Noel Paul Stookey Part II

By John Walters on Friday, April 8, 2005.

Noel Paul Stookey made his professional name as part of Peter Paul and Mary. The threesome became folk music icons in the 1960's, but their lives have evolved personally and professionally outside the group since then. John Walters talks with Noel about the role faith, music, and politics have played in the musician's life in the second part of a Front Porch interview.

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New Hampshire Rocks! (REBROADCAST)

By Laura Knoy on Friday, April 8, 2005.

The Granite state is far more than just granite� there's slate, quartzite, even gold up "in them there hills"! We'll look into the stones, minerals and rock formations of New Hampshire's undersurface and what geology can teach us about everything from earthquake risks to finding new water supplies. Laura's guests are David Wunsch, New Hampshire's State Geologist and Leland Wilder, Public Outreach Coordinator for the New Hampshire Geological Survey, Past president of the New Hampshire Geological Society and a professor of Earth Sciences at Colby Sawyer College in New London.

*This show originally aired on 9/13/04*

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Accipiters

By Rosemary Conroy on Friday, April 8, 2005.

These majestic year-round residents have to eat too, don't they? So don't be surprised when you find them hanging around your birdfeeder...waiting to eat the birds.

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