Word of Mouth - Segment
12:14 pm
Tue December 20, 2011

How Lego stacked itself out of the ashes

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Contrary to the buy now messaging of the season, kids aren’t looking only for instant gratification. Take Lego.  In 2005, Lego Corporation came back from the brink by capitalizing on research showing  that kids are inspired by the difficulty and process of mastering a complicated model. So, rather than dumbing down to compete with the plug-in immediacy of video games, Lego ramped up the sophistication of its models.

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Word of Mouth - Segment
11:55 am
Tue December 20, 2011

Notes from a Maine Kitchen

However you celebrate the holidays, we are now in deep. Hannukah begins at sundown tonight. There are five more shopping days and umpteen things to do until christmas…the holiday parties, the food shopping, the secret santa gifts, school plays and pick-ups. Time seems to compress as our wish to enjoy each other in this dark season expands.

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Linton Weeks joined NPR in the summer of 2008, as its national correspondent for Digital News. He immediately hit the campaign trail, covering the Democratic and Republican National Conventions; fact-checking the debates; and exploring the candidates, the issues and the electorate.

Weeks is originally from Tennessee, and graduated from Rhodes College in 1976. He was the founding editor of Southern Magazine in 1986. The magazine was bought — and crushed — in 1989 by Time-Warner. In 1990, he was named managing editor of The Washington Post's Sunday magazine. Four years later, he became the first director of the newspaper's website, Washingtonpost.com. From 1995 until 2008, he was a staff writer in the Style section of The Washington Post.

He currently lives in a suburb of Washington with the artist Jan Taylor Weeks. In 2009, they created The Stone and Holt Weeks Foundation to honor their beloved sons.

Business and Economy
10:30 am
Tue December 20, 2011

Part 3: Which NH Counties Won New Residents–And Lost Old Ones

One of our most popular drop-in series at StateImpact has been our county-by-county glimpses at migration rates.  Our work is based on  a map generated by Jon Bruner of Forbes.  (We still recommend you check it out.)  Using IRS data, Bruner traced where people in every county in the country were moving to–and from–between 2005 and 2009.

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The Exchange
10:00 am
Tue December 20, 2011

Issue Tuesdays: The Environment

Our issue Tuesday series continues with a look at where the Republican Presidential Candidates stand on the environment.  It’s a low priority for most G. O. P. voters this year, but the candidates do have their positions from energy policy to the impact of regulation on business to the elimination of  the E. P. A.  We’ll find out what they’re saying and how that’s playing in the Republican primary. 

Guests

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North Country
7:42 am
Tue December 20, 2011

Slick Road Causing Crashes

Black ice is causing a series of accidents and tricky travel in the North Country Tuesday morning.

The accidents include a tractor-trailer crash in Whitefield at the intersection of Route 3 and 116 where the vehicle was reported in the river.

The first rescue units to arrive reported the driver was “unresponsive.”

There were also two accidents in Bethlehem on Route 116.

 

 

Folk Show - Tupelo Public Radio Project
8:00 pm
Mon December 19, 2011

Tupelo Public Radio Project Featuring Martin Sexton

Kate hosts Martin Sexton at the Tupelo Music Hall in White River Junction, Vermont.

Folk Show
7:00 pm
Mon December 19, 2011

The Folk Show Holiday Edition - 12/25/11

Join NHPR’s Kate McNally on December 25, as she serves up a warm and comforting menu of folk holiday favorites. 

North Country
4:15 pm
Mon December 19, 2011

Under New Owners Gorham Mill Hopes To Show Paper Manufacturing Isn't Dead Yet In The North Country

Earlier this year the Gorham paper mill re-opened under new ownership.

With about six months of work under its belt, managers and workers are optimistic that paper production will once again be profitable in the North Country. 

NHPR’s Chris Jensen reports.

 

Not so long ago it looked like the North Country would lose its last paper mill.

Eddie DeBlois is a union official.

“I think if we look back to where we were last year at this time we were kind of thinking the best chance of something happening with our mill was demolition.”

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StateImpact
3:00 pm
Mon December 19, 2011

NH Personal Income Growth Double The (Modest) National Average

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You could say personal income growth in Q3 was less about the Benjamins than about the Jacksons…

Lately, the US Bureau of Economic Analysis has been crunching numbers looking at so called “personal income” growth.  That figure includes all pre-tax income:  wages, salaries, dividends, annuities, Social Security checks…everything.

And for the third quarter of 2011, the growth was rather modest.  In its media release, the Bureau of Economic Analysis noted:

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