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Due in part to the rising cost of gasoline, more people are riding Manchester's city buses.

But the city’s budget is tight this year and that bus system faces deep cuts.

NHPR Correspondent Ellen Grimm reports.

Today on Word of Mouth, we meet two men whose detective work revolves around detecting faked photographs and pulling information off confiscated cell phones. And we listen to rising jazz saxophonist Pete Robbins. And finally, our producer Avishay Artsy reports back on interviews he conducted with a visionary mayor, a superstar architect, an alternative game designer, and a neuroboticist.

(Photo by Paul Hocksenar)

The phone jamming scandal from New Hampshire's 2002 election is now a contentious issue on Capitol Hill.

Democrats are investigating what they say was White House involvement in the incident while Republicans say Democrats are just fishing for headlines.

NHPR Correspondent Matt Laslo reports from Washington.

Word of Mouth producer Avishay Artsy reports back on The New Yorker's "Stories from the Near Future" conference held last week in New York City.

The event brought together a number of influential, visionary thinkers from a wide variety of disciplines - scientists and engineers, artists and designers, architects, chefs, politicians, law professors, business leaders... all meeting to discuss the newest research trends and ideas that will shape how we live.

We'll hear from several of the participants, including:

Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco, about implementing the nation’s most innovative environmental policies in his city.

David Adjaye, an architect whose work includes London's Idea Stores, the Nobel Peace Center, in Oslo, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, will discuss the newest trends in contemporary architecture.

Jane McGonigal, an alternate-reality game designer and a senior researcher at the Institute for the Future, discusses how game play in virtual worlds can improve problem-solving in the real world.

Yoky Matsuoka, the director of the neurobotics laboratory at the University of Washington, created the first anatomically correct robotic hand.