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Senior Citizens Who Call Ambulances Don't Always Need Them

By David Darman on Thursday, April 12, 2007.

New Hampshire’s population over age sixty five is expected to nearly double in less than 15 years.

That aging population is already growing.

And it’s having an effect on the state’s local emergency systems.

More and more calls for an ambulance are coming from senior citizens.

But many of those calls aren’t really emergencies.

New Hampshire Public Radio’s David Darman has more.

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Remembering Kurt Vonnegut

By Liz Bulkley on Thursday, April 12, 2007.

Kurt Vonnegut, the prolific author of satire and science fiction, passed away last night. He was known for his dark humor and sometimes bleary point of view. But an undeniable hopefulness and morality was at the heart of his work. We'll explore his life and his legacy.

Our guests are:

  • Susan Neville, professor of English at Butler University and the author of Sailing in the Inland Sea.
  • Todd Davis, assistant professor of English at Penn State Altoona, and the author of Kurt Vonnegut's Crusade: Or How a Post-Modern Harlequin Preached a New Kind of Humanism.
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House Passes $10.4 Billion Budget

By Josh Rogers on Thursday, April 12, 2007.

Plan that increases spending by 16 percent clears house by 50 votes. While leading Democrats hail it as responsible, Republicans say it spends too much, and banks on unrealistic revenue projections.

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Teaching the Candidates about US War Policy

By Mark Bevis on Thursday, April 12, 2007.

The Franklin Pierce Law School, in conjunction with the New York based organization Human Rights First, is offering a class of sorts for Presidential candidates.

Dean John Hutson has organized a forum to inform those who would be President about current U .S. detention and interrogation policies.

He tells NHPR's Mark Bevis this topic has many ramifications for the present and the future in terms of how this country fights its wars.

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The "Sandwich Generation"

By Laura Knoy on Thursday, April 12, 2007.

They are the ones in the Granite State who are caught in the middle. Parents who also need to care for their children and their aging parents. They are called the "sandwich generation". As more of an aging population moves to... or back to New Hampshire to be close to their families, what is the state doing to possibly prepare and aid them?


Guests

  • Lisa Morris, Executive Director for ServiceLink Resource Center of Belknap County
  • Sheila Zakre, a Concord attorney for seniors and people with disabilities who now takes care of her three children and her elderly mother
  • Ida Keir, insurance broker specializing in long-term care insruance who is now taking care of her 94 year old mother. She has three older children, including two in college.
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