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We’ll talk about New Hampshire’s roads, rails and bridges with the man who oversees it all in the state. We’ll look at some of the state’s transportation priorities, the possibilities and challenges of expanding rail in the state and where the dollars from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act are going.

Guest

• George Campbell, Commissioner for the New Hampshire Department of Transportation

We’re joined by the American History Guys, hosts of the NPR program BackStory. We’ll dig into our country’s long tradition of partisan battles. From the Federalists and Whigs to today’s disputes between Republicans and Democrats, we’ll look at what’s been at the core of American partisanship and how it’s changed.

Guests

• Peter Onuf, Backstory’s 18th Century Guy and the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History at the University of Virginia
• Ed Ayers, Backstory’s 19th Century Guy and President of the University of Richmond
• Brian Balogh, Backstory’s 20th Century Guy and the Mayo Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at the University of Virginia

This week the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce hosts its Annual Economic Forecast Luncheon, where three of the Granite State’s leading economists are presenting their predictions for the state’s economy in 2010. We’ll find out what they said and ask all three of them how they arrived at their conclusions.

Guests

• Dennis Delay, economist and Deputy Director of the New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies
• Ross Gittell, economist, professor of Management at the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire and forecast manager at the New England Economic Partnership
• Brian Gottlob, principal of PolEcon Research in Dover

A new task force backed by retired Supreme Court justice David Souter aims to teach more New Hampshire students about how government works and what rights and responsibilities Americans have under the Constitution. We’ll hear from members of the task force and ask how and why they plan to boost the Granite State’s civics curriculum.

Guests

• Mary Susan Leahy, attorney at the McLane Law Firm and coordinator of the Curriculum Project at the New Hampshire Supreme Court Society
• John Hutson, Dean of the Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord and co-chair of the Civics Task Force at the New Hampshire Supreme Court Society
• Tom Galligan, president of Colby-Sawyer College and co-chair of the Civics Task Force at the New Hampshire Supreme Court Society

A new study from the Pew Research Center for People and the Press finds that public confidence in how accurate the press has reached its lowest level in twenty years. More folks say news organizations fail to report all the facts, project political biases, and succumb to the influence of the powerful. We’ll explore why Americans feel this way and ask what it says about the future of journalism.

Guests

• Megan Garber, news innovation beat reporter at the Columbia Journalism Review
• Michael Dimock, Associate Director at the Pew Research Center for People and the Press

We'll also hear from

• James Pindell, longtime New Hampshire political reporter and author of the political news website NHPoliticalReport.com
• Jeff Bartlett, General Manager of WMUR-TV
• TBA