Rick Ganley
Host, Morning EditionFor many radio listeners throughout New Hampshire, Rick Ganley is the first voice they hear each weekday morning, bringing them up to speed on news developments overnight and starting their day off with the latest information.
As host of New Hampshire Public Radio’s Morning Edition, Ganley brings a mix of the most topical local, national and international news; in-depth conversations; ideas and commentary to listeners. His reporting for NHPR spans topics including the opioid epidemic and interviews with national and local candidates for public office.
Before coming to NHPR in January 2009, Rick spent 20 years in commercial music radio at stations in Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire. He’s also penned dozens of pieces on music, pop culture, humor and backyard building projects for The Hippo and New Hampshire Magazine.
Because he begins his day at 3 a.m., he is a firm believer in daily naps.
Contact: RGanley@nhpr.org
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Gary Hicks was appointed to the New Hampshire Supreme Court in 2006, making him the longest serving justice on the current court. That was until last week when Hicks turned 70, the mandatory retirement age for judges in the state. -
This week on Live from the Word Barn, an artist that defies easy categorization. Jake Blount, a singer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist, blending spirituals, gospel, and old-time folk with beats and banjo. This show is from August 2023, and features a three piece band including electric guitar and stand-up bass. There’s lots of music here - and deep stories too
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Details are still emerging following a shooting in November at New Hampshire Hospital. We discuss a patchwork of state and federal gun regulations, and the gunman's access to firearms after a history of criminal charges and serious mental health concerns.
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Every drug-related death is supposed to be investigated with an autopsy by the medical examiner’s office. But less than half of the people in New Hampshire who died of a suspected drug overdose received an autopsy this year.
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This week on Live from the Word Barn from NHPR, we’ve got an hour with a New Hampshire-based band, The Midnight Wrens.
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NHPR’s Rick Ganley spoke with Susan Stearns, executive director of the mental health advocacy group NAMI-New Hampshire.
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Conversations following shootings often focus on a suspect’s mental health, but mental health experts say most people with mental illness are more likely to be victims of violence.
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In an interview with NHPR’s Morning Edition host Rick Ganley, Cone said he’s confident Berlin’s Burgess biomass plant will stay in business.
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This week on Live from the Word Barn, we’ve got an hour with The Wolff Sisters, a band The Boston Globe said lives “at the crossroads of Americana, roots, and ’60s rock ‘n’ roll, where The Band might meet Brandi Carlile and take her out for a beer.”
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New Hampshire will hold its 2024 presidential primary on Jan. 23, defying the Democratic National Committee’s plan to have the state vote later in the primary calendar next year.
