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Keene, New Hampshire; underground hip-hop music — most people would struggle to find the connection.

But reporter Dan Trudeau has the story of one Keene native who spent his New Hampshire youth writing rhymes … and his early adult years bringing his raps to crowds across the country.

The story of this election cycle is big states moving their primaries up to increase their electoral clout. A scant two weeks might come between voting in New Hampshire and delegate-rich states such as California and New Jersey. This has prompted much concern in the Granite state over the relevance and the future of the first in the nation primary.

Commentator Jon Udell understands those concerns but suggests that maybe the best way to defend the New Hampshire primary is to use new media to show the rest of the country what makes it worth protecting.
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The most recent government figures show that incomes in New Hampshire are growing, but at the slowest rate of any New England state. In fact, New Hampshire ranks among the lowest ten states nationwide.
To find out what’s behind these numbers, New Hampshire Public Radio’s Jon Greenberg spoke to Robert Tannenwald, Director of the New England Public Policy Center at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

The Exchange takes a break today to bring you this special documentary. Only 90 miles off the coast of the United States lies the island of Cuba, once a playground for American tourists. Cuba's relationship to the U.S. was forever changed in 1959 when Fidel Castro's revolutionary army marched on Havana. Since then, Cuba and the United States have existed as uneasy neighbors. Now, with the iconic Cuban leader on his death bed, a new era of Cuban-American relations may be dawning. "After Castro: America and Cuba" examines the possibility of change in the U.S.-Cuban dynamic and the role of the "Cuban Lobby" in that controversial relationship. It looks back at the decisions made during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and revisits U.S.-Cuban relations before and after Castro's takeover. Guests include Mark Falcoff, scholar emeritus at the American Enterprise Institute; Dagoberto Rodriguez, the head of the Cuban Interests Section; Theodore Sorensen, special counsel and advisor to President Kennedy; Richard Nuccio, former Secretary of State for Cuba and advisor to President Clinton; Roger Noriega, senior staff member for Senator Jesse Helms and a key author of the Helms-Burton Act. This program is part of the America Abroad program.