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Volunteers Break New Ground

By Dan Gorenstein on Thursday, December 13, 2007.

Typically in the final weeks before the primary, campaigns coordinate their out-of-state volunteers.

They find them places to stay- staffers sofas, in-state supporters’ homes, the YWCA.

But with Ron Paul backers, it’s volunteers who have organized an ambitious campaign to provide out-of-staters with free housing while they campaign for the Texas Republican.

New Hampshire Public Radio’s Dan Gorenstein has the story.

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Study of Floods Underway

By Amy Quinton on Thursday, December 13, 2007.

An independent evaluation of what caused the major floods of 2006 and 2007 is now underway.
The first public meeting outlining the scope of that project was held Wednesday night in Concord.

As New Hampshire Public Radio’s Amy Quinton reports, the report will examine why flooding was so severe and if dam operations can be improved.

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The State of Mental Health Services in New Hampshire

By Laura Knoy on Thursday, December 13, 2007.

Mental health issues are getting a second look lately, in part because of a few incidents in recent days- a mall shooting in Omaha by a teenager said to have mental health problems and last month’s hostage situation at Hillary Clinton’s Rochester campaign office where a mentally disturbed person specifically said he wanted to talk to Senator Clinton about the lack of mental health services in the Granite State. We’ll take a look at where mental health care is in the state – including how access, affordability, and attitudes may or may not have changed.

Guests

  • Louis Josephson, President and CEO of Riverbend Community Mental Health in Concord
  • Nancy Rollins, Director of the Division of Community-Based Care Services at the Department of Health and Human Services
  • Paul Gorman, Board Member with the NH Chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness and President and CEO for West Central Behavioral Health, the community mental health center associated with the Dartmouth - Hitchcock Medical Center. He was formerly Director of Mental Health, Substance Abuse and Developmental Services for the state of New Hampshire, served as the Superintendent of New Hampshire Hospital (NHH), the single public psychiatric hospital in New Hampshire and was the Director of the West Institute at the Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center. He also worked for a private psychiatric hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Brady's Holiday Message

By Brady Carlson on Wednesday, December 12, 2007.

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