All Things Considered
12:43 pm
Fri December 16, 2011

Downeaster Train Service Turns Ten

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Downeaster train.

This week officials with Amtrak’s Downeaster marked ten years in service.

The train line between Portland, Maine and Boston includes several stops in New Hampshire. Ridership is up and there are plans to expand the service next year.

Peter Griffin is president of the New Hampshire Railroad Revitalization Association. He tells All Things Considered host Brady Carlson about the Downeaster's ten years in service.

StateImpact
12:39 pm
Fri December 16, 2011

Where This Year’s State Historic And Conservation Grant Money Is Going

Credit photo: Bev Norton / Flickr
Colonial Theatre project in downtown Laconia snagged the biggest grant

Twenty-three conservation and historic preservation projects will be sharing just north of $1 million in state grants courtesy of New Hampshire’s Land and Community Heritage Investment Program (LCHIP).  Fourteen historic structures and more than 2,800 acres of land ultimately qualified for funding.

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Here's What's Awesome
12:21 pm
Fri December 16, 2011

Friday is for Memes: Misleading Doctor

Misleading Doctor does it again.

From this Friday forward, Here's What's Awesome will bring you a fresh meme from the depths of web culture. This week, Misleading Doctor - who sets you up with a little news at the top of the image, only to turn that news on its head at the bottom of the image.

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Socrates Exchange

The Socrates Exchange is more than just a one hour live show on The Exchange. It's a statewide discussion on issues, ethics and ideas. The Socrates Exchange has won the Helen and Martin Schwartz Prize for outstanding work in public humanities!

Brought to you in part by: The New Hampshire Humanities Council

Friday Journal
12:00 pm
Fri December 16, 2011

Radiolab – Stress

Stress may save your life if you're being chased by a tiger. But if you're stuck in traffic, it may be more likely to make you sick. In this hour of Radiolab, we take a long hard look at the body's system for getting out of trouble. Stanford University neurologist (and part-time "baboonologist") Dr. Robert Sapolsky takes us through what happens on our insides when we stand in the wrong line at the supermarket, and offers a few coping strategies: gnawing on wood, beating the crap out of somebody, and having friends.

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The Exchange
11:00 am
Fri December 16, 2011

Next Week on the Exchange - Week of December 19

Next week on the Exchange – We begin looking at our state’s painkiller problem, New Hampshire nears the top when it comes to their abuse, we’ll look at what some in the state are doing about it. Then our Issue Tuesdays series continues as we compare the Republican Presidential candidates and their plans on the environment. We sit down with New Hampshire Public Radio's President Betsy Gardella, and on Friday we bring you a perennial favorite, our interview with Charles Dicken’s great great grandson who talks with us about the great author and performs part of his one-man Christmas Carol..

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StateImpact
10:21 am
Fri December 16, 2011

The States With The Best And Worst Wage Laws For Home Health Workers

Credit Source: White House Office of the Press Secretary

President Obama is pushing the US Department of Labor to move forward on a rules change that would raise wages and require overtime pay for home health workers.  According to a

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It's All Politics
6:58 am
Fri December 16, 2011

Romney Regains Stride; Gingrich Shows Old Newt At Sioux City Debate

Originally published on Fri December 16, 2011 12:27 am

Mitt Romney returned to form in the final Republican presidential debate before the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses.

Romney, who had perhaps his shakiest debate performance in Des Moines over the weekend, appeared to regain his composure in Thursday night's debate in Sioux City, Iowa.

He managed to once again convey the sense that he was the one GOP candidate of the seven remaining who could credibly stand on the same stage with President Obama next fall, the most electable of the candidates running for the Republican presidential nomination.

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Remembrances
6:56 am
Fri December 16, 2011

Writer Christopher Hitchens Dies At 62

Originally published on Fri December 16, 2011 3:06 pm

The influential writer and cultural critic Christopher Hitchens died on Thursday at the age of 62 from complications of cancer of the esophagus. Hitchens confronted his disease in part by writing, bringing the same unsparing insight to his mortality that he had directed at so many other subjects.

Over the years, Hitchens' caustic attention was directed at a broad range of subjects, including Henry Kissinger, Prince Charles, Bob Hope, Michael Moore, the Dalai Lama and Mother Teresa.

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Morning Edition
12:00 am
Fri December 16, 2011

A Trio of Nutcrackers

There are many production of The Nutcracker this weekend in New Hampshire; Amy Diaz, Editor of the Hippo tells us about three unique versions, including An 1836 Portsmouth NutcrackerChildren's Nutcracker at the Flying Monkey, and The Nutcracker at the Keefe Auditorium.

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