Keith Shields

Next week on the Exchange, we begin with a forum on Health Care policy with the candidates for Governor, Republican Ovide Lamontagne and Democrat Maggie Hassan on everything from the Affordable Care Act to mental-health services.  Then our Issue of the Week series continues as we compare where the candidates for Governor, Congress and President and stand on the issue of education.  Later, your reaction to the first Presidential debate.

Next week on the Exchange, we begin with new research on America’s “non-voting bloc,” the tens of millions who are likely to stay home this election. Then, we kick off our “Issue of the Week” election series, with a look at how job creation is playing out in state political races. And we talk with the author of a new book called “milk money”…which describes dire times for small dairy farms.  E-mail us at NHPR dot org and join us all next week for the Exchange each morning live at 9/and again at 8 p m...here on NHPR!

Next week on the Exchange, we begin with a renewed debate over organic food after a recent study found it may have few health benefits. Then, New Hampshire’s recently approved Voter ID law; we’ll see how it might affect voters and election officials in the months ahead.  On Wednesday, we crunch the numbers of New Hampshire's Primary elections, and who won, who didn't and how the battles shape up for the General Election.  And, we check in with the No Child Left Behind Law, as big changes are afoot for this decade old program.

It take up more time in our lives than almost any other activity, yet science still knows very little about sleep or how it affects us.

(sound of walking)

The track at Nashua North high school on any given afternoon has a few joggers doing laps, sprinters running intervals, even a hurdler practicing his jumps…and then there’s Bob Keating, who stands out a bit. The sixty five year old race-walker and one time Olympic trials qualifier is pumping his arms, his hips are swaying wide and as everyone else bounces, Keating seems to glide around the perimeter of the track.

Next week on the Exchange, we begin with the latest from Syria, a panel of local experts weighs on what’s happening there, and what the U.S. response might be. Then, our coverage of the New Hampshire Gubernatorial Primary continues, with Republican candidate Ovide Lamontagne.  We take a look at the economy and ask why its taking so long to dig ourselves out of this hole and adventures in the strange science of sleep.

Millions of Americans have been following the Olympics in London, and NHPR staffers are no exception. But one of our colleagues is watching with a more seasoned eye – Keith Shields is executive producer of The Exchange, but he’s also a 27-time marathoner who's currently training for an Iron Man triathlon in Quebec.

He tells All Things Considered host Brady Carlson about the races he's been following, London's history in shaping the modern marathon, and whether athletes watch Olympic competition any differently than the rest of us.

Next week on the Exchange, we begin with an update from space, as our own “Sky Guys” give us the latest on the landing of a new Mars space laboratory, increasing solar activity and a new mission to Jupiter.  Then the author of a new book challenges what many call the skills gap”, as companies say they can’t find the right workers. And later we explore the current debate over religious freedoms in America.  E-mail us at NHPR dot org and join us all next week for the Exchange each morning  at 9/and again at 8 p m, here on NHPR!

Next week on the Exchange, we begin the week checking in on the local-turned national story of the Hepatitis C outbreak at Exeter Hospital. We’ll get the latest news and what we’ve learned from this fiasco.

Next week on the Exchange– We begin looking at our state's Great Bay region. Pollution is taking over and communities, activists and officials can't agree how best to eradicate it. Then we sit down with one of the biggest players in New Hampshire politics this year, Republican House Speaker Bill O’Brien, on what he feels his party accomplished, and some of the session’s controversies.

Next week on the Exchange, we begin with a conversation with Marco Werman, the host of PRI's "The World" who will be speaking in the Granite State and has a new documentary out on Senegalese musician and activist, Youssou N'Dour.  Then we look at the Medicaid expansion debate. Last month's Supreme Court decision on President Obama's health care law, left the door open for states to opt out of expanding Medicaid enrollment.

Several years ago, a grass-roots movement called "the Tea Party", united around fiscal conservatism and played a pivotal role in the republican resurgence.  More recently though, some suggest that its political clout is waning, but Tea Party members say they’re just working more strategically, and will be as influential as ever in twenty-twelve. Monday we're joined by a roundtable of Tea Party members to talk about the direction of the movement.

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Next week on the Exchange, we begin with the Northern Pass project, the headlines may have quieted down, but progress hasn’t both in getting it off the ground and stopping it in its tracks. Then a roundtable of House and Senate Leadership joins us to discuss the biggest achievements and disappointments of this legislative session. We look a constitutional amendment that you'll be voting on this fall that would bar any sort of income tax.

This week, a highly-politicized bill titled the “Paycheck Fairness Act”, died in the U.S. Senate.   The bill was aimed at the so-called “wage gap”, between men and women.   It would have given workers greater legal rights, if they found evidence of pay disparities between male and female employees.   Republicans voted against the measure, saying it would have encouraged a flood of workplace lawsuits, while Democrats called the bill an important tool aimed at closing the divide between men’s and women’s paychecks.   We'll look at that, also what might cause this gap?

Originally broadcast on Friday, May 25.

(Sound of Keith trying to take their picture and messing up...Darjees laugh)