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What to do when Memorial Bridge is Under Repair

By Roger Wood on Thursday, January 19, 2006.

Seacoast residents met with State Transportation officials earlier this week to decide what to do about the bridge that connects Portsmouth to Kittery, Maine.

The Memorial Bridge is in need of major repair, but any large restoration project is likely to seriously disrupt the flow of traffic over the Piscatagqua.

NHPR Correspondent Roger Wood reports.

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Maine's First in the Nation E-Waste Law

By Keith McKeen on Thursday, January 19, 2006.

Maine has become the first state in the nation to require tv and computer monitor manufacturers share the tab for the disposal of their products.

Environmentalists are applauding the legislation as a major step in removing toxic material from Maine's waste stream.

MPBN's Keith McKeen reports.

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Employment Services and Oscar Wilde as Opera

By Shay Zeller on Thursday, January 19, 2006.

Recent federal budget cuts may affect employment services in many parts of New Hampshire. We'll talk with the Department of Employment Security Commissioner Richard Brothers about the state's response, and get a broader picture of the issue from UNH Economist Ross Gittell.

And we'll talk with Concord playwright Paul Hodes about his new opera about the life of Oscar Wilde. Paul collaborated with Boston composer Thomas Oboe Lee on the opera which is still in production and will be performed this weekend.

TONIGHT'S SONG: "The Start of Something", by the Austin band Voxtrot. Their debut EP is called Raised By Wolves.

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The High Court Speak on NH’s Parental Notification Law/State of the State Address

By Laura Knoy on Thursday, January 19, 2006.

The High Court speak on NH’s Parental Notification Law
Yesterday, the US Supreme Court voted unanimously that it was wrong for a lower court to strike down this abortion law over health exceptions, we’ll get reactions from Granite Staters. Laura's guests are for the first half are Claire Ebel, Executive Director of New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union, Phyllis Woods, Former Republican State Representative from Dover, and Co-sponsor of the House Parental Notification bill and NH Attorney General, Kelly Ayotte.

State of the State Address
Then we'll look back at Governor Lynch’s State of the State address, what was said, what wasn’t and where it goes from here. Governor John Lynch delivered his State of the State Address after a year full of accomplishments and hardships. We'll look back at 2005 and see what lies ahead for New Hampshire in 2006. We’ll discuss the issues Governor Lynch raised, as well as the concerns of some New Hampshire legislators. In the second half, Laura's guests are Tom Fahey, State House Bureau Chief of the New Hampshire Union Leader, Senator Peter Burling, Democrat of Cornish, and Congressman Michael O'Neil, House Majority Leader from Hampton.

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