The New Hampshire Institute of Politics & Political Library recently hosted former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson for a speech entitled "How to Sweet Talk a Shark". The veteran Democratic politician outlined his own personal brand of diplomacy, including here in Part 1, one time in which he tried to bluff the Cubans and failed.

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We conclude our look back at New Hampshire kicking off its multi-year celebration of a century of the First in the Nation Primary.

This week's installment features Republicans Tom Rath, Jim, Merrill, and Peter Bragdon, and Democrats Jim Demers, Kathy Sullivan, and Terie Norelli.

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We continue NH's four year celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the First in the Nation Primary, with the kickoff event at the State House in Concord.

Part 2 features Sybil Dupuis, great-granddaughter of FITN founder Stephen Bullock, former Congress Charlie Bass, who has his own family history with the primary, former State Representative Jim Splaine, and dueling party chairs, Republican Steve Duprey and Democrat Ray Buckley.

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NH's First in the Nation Primary turns 100 in 2016, and politicians from across the spectrum are preparing to mark the anniversary. Last week, the NH Senate approved legislation creating the New Hampshire "First-in-the-Nation" presidential primary centennial anniversary commission. The bill now heads to the Governor's desk.

Last year, our partners at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics & Political Library were on hand to note the Presidential Primary Centennial Celebration at the State House.

Part 1 of our podcast includes Jim Merrill, Jim Demers, Secretary of State William Gardner, and retiring House Speaker Terie Norelli.

This week our podcast comes from NHPR and focuses on a very controversial topic - the Northern Pass. It’s possible that the Northern Pass, a 186-mile transmission line Public Service of New Hampshire proposed in 2010, might be built over the many objections of the project’s opponents. If that does happen would people get used to it, or would it become a permanent scar on the state as opponents fear? There’s an idea that a fisheries scientist came up with called the shifting baseline. It says that we take for granted whatever world we are born into.

We conclude our First in the Nation Flashback from Congressman Ron Paul's (R-TX) 2011 address to the NH Institute of Politics & Political Library at St. Anselm College.

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We continue our FITN Flashback of Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) with Part 2 of his speech at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics & Political Library on the campus of St. Anselm College. When we left the Congressman, he was discussing America's reaction to 9/11.

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From time to time, we'll look back at the 100 year history of New Hampshire's First In The Nation Primary with our FITN FLashback series. This week, we revisit the 2012 Presidential campaign of Texas Congressman Ron Raul. He visited the NH Institute of Politics & Political Library in 2011, and we bring you Part 1 of that speech here now.

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This week, the Live Free or Die Alliance Podcast digs into our own archive to bring you a one-on-one with two New Hampshire Governors. Governor Steve Merrill sat down in December 2009 with then-Governor John Lynch for a Live Free or Die Alliance program at the NH Institute of Politics.

We hope you enjoy this look back at recent New Hampshire political history.

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Our podcast partners at Dartmouth College Broadcasting take a look at their own history, and the future of the radio industry, in this week's episode.

Valley Voices contributor Gil Whelan welcomes author Tim Brooks to discuss his book "College Radio Days", in a segment produced by Mick Zloof.

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