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The State Wants to Log Piscah State Park

By Donna Moxley on Friday, June 1, 2007.

State officials plan Saturday to propose an 82-acre timber harvest in Pisgah State Park, in southwest New Hampshire.

Officials say they’ve waited decades for the resources to carry out the project, but critics want the state to wait longer.

The Keene Sentinel’s Donna Moxley reports…

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The Union Leader's Newspaper Guild Is Still Without a Contract

By Brian Early on Friday, June 1, 2007.

Drive to the Union Leader offices on a Thursday and you may see pickets.

Three of the four unions at the state's largest newspaper are currently in contract negotiations.

But after nearly a year and half without a contract, one union is growing increasingly impatient with management.

From Manchester, NHPR correspondent Brian Early reports.

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Senate Shakes Off Seatbelt Bill

By Dan Gorenstein on Friday, June 1, 2007.

A bipartisan group of senators has killed a bill that would have required drivers to wear seatbelts.

New Hampshire Public Radio's Dan Gorenstein reports the move likely preserves New Hampshire's role as the only state in the nation without a seatbelt law.

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A Letter from Iraq: 2nd Lt. Ben Leonard

By Mark Bevis on Friday, June 1, 2007.

It’s Friday, the day we check in with a member of the 36-43rd company of the New Hampshire National Guard currently serving in Iraq.

They are guarding a detention center just outside Baghdad.

NHPR’s Mark Bevis spoke with 2nd Lieutenant Ben Leonard.

He and his wife live in Portland, Maine

Lt. Leonard’s been in the Guard since his junior year in high school.

He joined in order to be able to go to college.

And while he knew he might face active duty in a war zone, he never imagined he would be guarding a detention center.

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