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The State's Effort to Widen Spaulding Turnpike Churns Ahead

By David Darman on Wednesday, November 29, 2006.

When it comes to highway expansion in New Hampshire, the effort to widen Interstate 93 gets most of the headlines.

This week, transportation officials have said the price to widen that road has risen more than sixty percent to nearly seven-hundred million dollars.

Rising costs also plague another planned highway expansion in New Hampshire, on the Seacoast.

There, officials have been working for six years to widen the Spaulding Turnpike.

New Hampshire Public Radio's David Darman has more.

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State Rolls Out New Vaccine for Cervical Cancer

By Dan Gorenstein on Wednesday, November 29, 2006.

New Hampshire has announced it will be the first state to offer young women between the ages of 11 and 18 a free vaccine that can help protect them against cervical cancer.

New Hampshire Public Radio's Dan Gorenstein has more.

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The Darker Side of Island Life

By Liz Bulkley on Wednesday, November 29, 2006.

A new film looks at rejection, isolation and the struggle for redemption in a small fishing village off the coast of Maine. It was shot on Vinalhaven and in Rockport and it tells the tale of insiders versus outsiders and looks at the double-edged-sword of a close-knit community. We'll meet the filmmakers and the lead actor of the new movie, Islander.

Islander is showing at the Portsmouth Music Hall tomorrow. Check out the venue's website for details.

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Defining the Party Line Part Two: The Democrats

By Laura Knoy on Wednesday, November 29, 2006.

In part two of this week's special two-part mini-series, The Exchange takes a look at what it means to be a Democrat today. Throughout the hour we'll hear from various Democrats and we also want to hear from you. What is your ideal Democrat? What values should the party embrace as it moves forward with the big midterm election gains it made? Should the party move back to the left or stay more centrist? Laura's guest is Dante Scala, Associate Professor of Politics at St. Anselm College and Research Fellow at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics. We'll also hear from Robert Weiner, Former Clinton White House Senior Public Affairs Director, Previous Communications Director for U.S. Reps. John Conyers and Charles Rangel; Mark Fernald, former Democratic State Senator and gubernatorial candidate; Joe Keefe, CEO of Pax World Funds, former New Hampshire Democratic Party Chair, former member of the DNC and former Democratic nominee for New Hampshire's 1st congressional district and Terry Shumaker, former DNC member and currently Executive Director of the New Hampshire NEA.

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