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Grace Paley is perhaps best known for her short fiction, but she?s also a widely published poet, and currently Vermont?s Poet Laureate. She talks about her life in literature and her political activism, including her involvement in the antiwar, civil rights, feminist, and environmental movements.

Their image: a corps of ever-smiling black men waiting on white luxury train passengers hand and foot. But these men and women became one of the most influential groups in African American history...becoming civil rights leaders, creating the first black labor union and being the backbone to today?s black middle class. It's been said that behind almost every successful African-American, there is a Pullman porter. From Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall to activist Malcolm X to jazz great Oscar Peterson. Laura's guest is Larry Tye, longtime Boston Globe reporter and author of "Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class".

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The price of buying a house in New Hampshire has risen significantly over the past few years.

In Concord, the median home price has almost doubled since 2000.

But there may be signs the housing market is starting to cool---if only a little bit.

New Hampshire Public Radio's David Darman has more.

Amos Townsend is a retired physician and Air Force Colonel who served as a flight surgeon in Vietnam at the height of the American war. He later returned to Southeast Asia with his wife for five years to help refugees at a refugee camp on the Thailand-Cambodia border. He tells host John Walters why his work in the health field took him to more than 40 countries.

The Joint Legislative Committee is recommending the most severe punishment it can to former House Speaker Gene Chandler.

The Committee has issued a report recommending he be expelled from the House.

But New Hampshire Public Radio's Dan Gorenstein reports, support among his colleagues remains strong.