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The Centers for Disease Control estimates that more than 2 million patients pick up infections at U.S. hospitals every year.

And about 90,000 are killed by them.

Costs for those Hospital Acquired Infections are an estimated $5 billion.

The reason those numbers are estimates is because most hospitals nationwide don’t report them.

Hospitals have been reluctant to publicize their infection rates, and most have never been required to.

And in some cases they are not even tracking the information.

But as of July 1st, a new state law will mandate that New Hampshire Hospitals provide this data to the state for public disclosure.

But so far the law remains un-funded.

NHPR’s Dianne Finch reports.

As landfill space tightens up, and as towns look for ways to save money, many are turning to recycling.

For residents, recycling means we have to dump the bottle or can in the appropriate bin and call it a day.

But as NHPR correspondent Brian Early found out, there's another side of the recycling world.

A side where there's money to be made…And Manchester is going to be part of it.

Discussions are going on around the region as to how our schools should be organized. In Maine, the Governor and Education Commissioner are pushing a sweeping plan to cut down the number of school administrative units from one-hundred-fifty-two down to twenty-six, causing quite a mixed reaction. Here in New Hampshire, some towns, like Barnstead, have been pushing to break off from their SAUs and go it alone. We'll look at these various plans for shrinking, expanding or maintaining the status quo on SAUs and the reasons behind them. Jon's guests are Ted Comstock, Executive Director of the New Hampshire School Boards Association and Jim Rier, Director of Finance and Operations for Maine's Department of Education.