Municipalities, Cities, Regions: Governing Growth

As New Hampshire grows many communities find they're outgrowing their ways of governing. Many town meetings are being replaced by SB2, other towns are reexamining whether they need to expand their governments, while some say that our mostly municipal forms of government need to be changed to a more regional approach. Others say that these changes lose local control and that personal "hands on" approach that Granite Staters have relished for years. In our third installment we'll look at the way we govern and how growth might affect it. Laura's guests are John Andrews, Executive Director of the New Hampshire Municipal Association. Peter Francese, Demographic Trends Analyst for Ogilvy and Mather in New York City and Founder of American Demographics Magazine. Patrick Meighan, reporter and former regional Editor for the Nashua Telegraph and Cliff Sinnott, Executive Director of the Rockingham Planning Commission..
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