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In New Hampshire, possession of small amounts of cannabis was decriminalized in 2017.

But for those who already have possession charges, getting their record cleared might not be so easy.

“¿Qué Hay de Nuevo, New Hampshire?” is a daily Spanish language newscast produced by New Hampshire Public Radio, in collaboration with the Granite State News Collaborative.

Before its launch, no Spanish language news service was available in New Hampshire.

Daniela Allee hosts the program, which is distributed primarily on WhatsApp. Daniela explains how she thinks that the program will fill a gap in New Hampshire’s news landscape, but also why she hopes this is just the beginning.

“Public radio is about providing a public service, and sometimes it feels implicit in public radio who that public really is,” said Allee.

“Let’s just say that explicitly… who are we imagining receiving this news? Otherwise you can just forget about people you don’t often think about or don’t interact with.”

Sign up to receive news updates in Spanish by visiting nhpr.org/noticias.

Clothing is powerful: just as a carefully rolled cuff might speak to an eye for subtlety, or a tiny gold nose ring, a wayward edge, the sweep of a neckline might be a first step toward finally saying "I am a woman."

In the closet, somewhere between the favorite dresses and perfectly worn-in t-shirts, hand-me-downs, this-old-things, and pieces never worn but somehow impossible to throw away, ideas also live. Clothes can help answer questions about who we are, what we value, and what we want to express to the world.

Five people across New Hampshire and Maine open their closets and explain the choices behind their clothing.

This story was originally broadcast on NHPR in 2019.

The "New Hampshire Advantage" is part of the state's branding. It’s the idea that New Hampshire offers a strong business climate, partly due to its low taxes.

But why is this such a tenet of the state’s philosophy? Why is New Hampshire so very against a state income tax?

This story was originally published in 2018 for the NHPR program Word of Mouth.

As young people come to New Hampshire to start their careers, or families, they look for things that remind them of home and bring them comfort. For people coming from larger cities, like Marissa Balonon-Rosen, that meant street food and food trucks. She asked us: where are all the food trucks?

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A conversation and Q&A about coronavirus in New Hampshire with Jason Moon, NHPR’s health reporter.

When Courtney Marshall asked us why it’s so hard for black women to find a decent haircut in New Hampshire, we invited her to join us to find the answer. The resulting story won a regional Edward R. Murrow award.

Two years later, we revisit Courtney’s question to see if anything has changed, both for her and the state of hair care in New Hampshire.

When it comes to parents giving "the Talk,” or boys and girls learning about boundaries and consent, these are topics have long been in the air like the birds and the bees. This is the second episode in our two-part series exploring sex education in New Hampshire - and for this episode, we’re stepping outside of the classroom.

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Topics like consent, gender identity, and sexual orientation have been long been floating in the air like the birds and the bees. This is the first episode in our two-part series exploring listener questions about the state of sex education in New Hampshire.

Additional Resources

The National Suicide Lifeline is free, confidential, and available 24/7. The number is 1-800-273-8255.

Support for LGBTQ youth

Concord Outright

Rural Outright in Claremont

Seacoast Outright in Portsmouth

Support for parents, friends, and allies

PFLAG-NH

General sexual health and wellness

The Equality Health Center in Concord

Planned Parenthood statewide

GLSEN 

Every great mystery begins with a first clue. For listener Hannah Robinson it was a series of letters in the mail…. letters from the AARP.

But Robinson is just 37 years old; she’s decades away from retirement. She did have a stroke just a few months before the letters starting arriving. So she wondered: Did AARP somehow find out that she had a stroke? Were they using her medical data to sell her a membership? Or is this just a coincidence?

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