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Lawmakers Consider Funds For State Historic Sites

Lawmakers Consider Funds For State Historic Sites

Exterior paint flakes off the Wentworth mansion, February 2007. lawmakers considered putting $10 million into the system to improve state parks and create a bureau for historic sites.

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Legislation Aims To Improve State Historic Sites

By Amy Quinton on Wednesday, February 7, 2007.

New Hampshire lawmakers will consider two bills this session designed to improve state parks and historic sites.

One bill would infuse 10 million dollars into the system over the coming biennium.

Another creates a strategic plan to try to make the parks more profitable and creates a bureau for historic sites.

But as New Hampshire Public Radio’s Amy Quinton reports, some preservationists say the legislation still leaves historic sites in jeopardy of shutting down.

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NPR's Liane Hansen

By Liz Bulkley on Wednesday, February 7, 2007.

For 16 years, Liane Hansen has been delivering the news of the world, stories about changing trends in our society, and in societies across the globe. As host of National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Sunday, she's kept us up to date on the latest news, introduced us to a huge variety of up and coming musicians, and of course, each week she helps us try to out-do Puzzle Master Will Shortz. Liane's a career journalist who began at NPR as a production assistant for All Things Considered in 1979, and she's been at the network ever since. Tonight on the Front Porch, we'll talk with her about her career and the state of radio journalism today.

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An Adequacy Update

By Laura Knoy on Wednesday, February 7, 2007.

Since the New Hampshire Supreme Court handed down its deadline for a definition of an adequate education, state lawmakers have been busy forming task forces and having discussions on the matter to come to a resolution before July 1, 2007. We'll check in with the players and see where we're at a few months out from the deadline. Laura's guests are Chuck Douglas, Concord Attorney and former New Hampshire Congressman and Supreme Court Justice and Scott Johnson, Project Director for The New Hampshire Citizens Voice Project, Professor of Law at Concord University School of Law, Visiting Professor of Law at Franklin Pierce Law Center and one of the attorneys who filed the original Claremont lawsuit. We'll also hear from Rep. Emma Rous, Democrat from Durham, Chair of the House Education Committee and member of the Joint Legislative Task Force on Adequacy.

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