On this edition of The New Hampshire Journal podcast, NHGOP State Party Chair Steve Stepanek talks about the results of this week's municipal elections, and why he believes Democrats like Sen. Maggie Hassan and Rep. Chris Pappas can't untangle themselves from the politics of energy policy. He believes voters will hold Democrats responsible for $5 a gallon gasoline and high heating bills.

Drew Cline of the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy also sees trouble ahead on energy, and he offers a different take on the politics of former GOP strongholds like Bedford: They've zoned out housing for working-class GOP voters.

Is Bedford too affluent to stay Republican? 

It's on the podcast! Hosted by NHJournal's Michael Graham.

It's a special "Food and Booze" edition of The New Hampshire Journal podcast. Gov. Chris Sununu is on board to talk about his decision to order Russian products pulled from the state's liquor store shelves, and what he believes America's stance should be in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

And Drew Cline from the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy talks about the regulation of food trucks in New Hampshire and why it should be easier -- not harder -- for cuisine entrepreneurs to bring their flavors to the streets of the Granite State.

Hosted by Michael Graham.

In a NHJournal podcast first, we're joined by Ukrainian member of parliament Natalya Pipa (Наталія Піпа) on Friday, February 24, as she is literally fleeing to escape the Russian invasion of her country. The audio -- recorded in her car as her family drove west -- isn't the best. But the content is amazing.

“It will be a funny question if it was not so sad," Pipa says at one point.

Then former GOP governor of Virginia Jim Gilmore, who served as United States Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe joins Drew Cline of the Josiah Bartlett Center to discuss the Ukraine crisis and U.S. foreign policy.

And when he's not showing off his incredibly bad Russian, podcast host Michael Graham notes that, on the domestic policy front, one of the big losers in U.S. politics from the Russian invasion will be the Green movement. Their endorsed candidates are already calling for increased fossil production-- and what can the Greens do about it?

On this edition of The New Hampshire Journal podcast, one of the Republican candidates for U.S. Senate, former Londonderry Town Manager Kevin Smith, calls in from the Arizona/Mexico border to talk about the Biden immigration and border security policies. Smith notes that his potential opponent, Sen. Maggie Hassan, voted against funding the wall and against returning to the "Remain in Mexico" policy that many experts believe would help bring the current border crisis to a close.

And Drew Cline from the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy evaluates the New Democratic talking point on inflation: It's all COVID's fault. Does that pass muster among trained economists? Cline says "Follow the science!"

Also: Remembering P.J. O'Rourke.

Hosted by Michael Graham.

It's a special National School Choice Week edition of The New Hampshire Journal podcast. (Really, it is!) 

Rep. Marjorie Porter (D-Hillsborough) celebrated by touting the fact she pulled her son out of public school and sent him to a private academy "and it was good we had that choice." Alas, she opposes allowing low-income NH families to use their state education funding to do the same.

And a Derry, N. H. middle school announced students who are not "properly based" will be forced into detention, where they were be re-educated about the need to wear proper masks. Surprisingly, some parents object.

Jason Bedrick of EdChoice is on hand to add hard data and research. The Josiah Bartlett Center's Drew Cline's in the show as well.

Hosted by Michael Graham.

On this edition of The New Hampshire Journal podcast, reporter Damien Fisher reports from the scene on Dartmouth College's decision to cancel an appearance by conservative journalist Andy Ngo in the face of threats from Antifa in New England.

Ngo is best known for his aggressive reporting on Antifa and other violent organizations on the political Left. The circumstances around the cancellation of his Dartmouth appearance -- he was supposed to talk about the use of violent extremism to silence dissent -- remain fuzzy.

Also on the podcast, Drew Cline of the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy discusses legislative efforts backed by NH teachers unions and their statehouse allies to roll back parental rights and limit parental choices in the Granite State education system.

Hosted by Michael Graham.

New Hampshire's teachers unions blast a proposal to end remote learning, while Sen. Maggie Hassan prepares to cast her vote to kill the filibuster. And a NH House committee considers legislation to block any state tax dollars from going to commuter rail projects like the (likely) $500 million Capitol Corridor Project.

NHJournal's Michael Graham discusses it all with Drew Cline of the Josiah Bartlett Center (and chairman of the State Board of Education.)

In this double-barreled edition of the New Hampshire Journal podcast, Dr. Jay Kennedy of Michigan State University talks about how the surge of 'smash-and-grab' robberies and mass shoplifting events are actually being fueled by shoppers like you.

Kennedy, who is part of the USA-IT effort to fight organized retail crime and the black market economy, says criminal gangs are using theft and counterfeits to fill orders from unsuspecting shoppers on the internet.

And Brandon Arnold of the National Taxpayers Union breaks down the Build Back Better bill and why, he says, it's a legislative nightmare. Drew Cline of the Josiah Bartlett Center joins in to talk BBB math, budgets and the "I" word.

Hosted by Michael Graham. 

The Trafalgar Group is probably best known as one of the few polling firms that predicted the Trump surge in 2016. They also spotted the GOP's surprisingly strong performance in 2020. 

Now, Trafalgar's CEO Robert Cahaly is on the New Hampshire Journal podcast to talk about his new poll of Granite State voters, as well as the trends for 2022 he's seeing in polling across the U.S. 

And he answers one of the most frequently-asked questions among Republican activists: Are Biden's bad numbers tanking too soon? Does the GOP still have time to blow the midterms?

(Spoiler alert: The GOP can ALWAYS blow an election.)

Cahaly discusses all this and more with host Michael Graham of InsideSources and Drew Cline of the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy.

In this episode of the New Hampshire Journal podcast, New Hampshire Board of Education member Ryan Terrell talks about how to strike the right balance in the classroom between avoiding CRT-inspired, race-based instruction, and teaching the accurate -- and sometimes ugly -- history of the United States. 

The podcast is rudely interrupted by Drew Cline of the Josiah Bartlett Center who shares new research showing that closed classroom policies backed by teachers unions as a way to address COVID are:

a) a lousy and ineffective way to address COVID, and
b) are devastating to the educations of our children.

Hosted by Michael Graham.