The Exchange

Join us for our discussion on school consolidation and redistricting in the Granite State. While our neighbors in Vermont and Maine are favoring towns consolidating their schools in hopes of saving money, here the trend is more toward breaking up, with a desire for more local control. We find out why and how communities are deciding to come together, or go it alone.

We discuss Tuesday's state primary and look ahead to November. Donald Trump and Tim Kaine pay local voters another visit. And Dartmouth-Hitchcock says the layoff of nearly 500 employees won't affect staffing at the New Hampshire Hospital.

The New Hampshire Primary saw unexpectedly tight races. With some races too close to call, we recap the winners and losers and forecast what's next for the candidates. We also look around the state at key N.H. Senate races, as well as Executive Council. We forecast how the races shape up for the road to the election, and get a sense of the downticket effect of the Presidential races.

A recent Pew Research report finds some bad news for traditional print media with newspapers seeing perhaps their worst year since the Great Recession. But there's good news for all things digital: many more people are seeking information on social media sites and in the mobile realm. We examine the trends on all platforms, and look at ramifications for the actual work of journalism. This program was originally broadcast on 8/23/16.

We examine winners and losers in today's Granite State economy. We look at differences between northern and southern New Hampshire, residents with college degrees and without, and the future of various sectors such as technology, health care and manufacturing.

Debates - and the debate on drugs - dominate the run-up to the state's primary election on Sept. 13. The state cap on education funding is ruled unconstitutional. And students return to the classroom as Manchester learns of high lead levels in school drinking water.

Labor Day signals the end of Summer, but during a presidential election, it also serves as the kickoff for the fall general election campaign. Both Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican standard-bearer Donald Trump hit the ground running this week with multiple campaign events, including back-to-back presidential forums. Meanwhile, third party challengers are looking to win over the large number of voters who appear unhappy with both major party nominees. Our guest host for this

It was decades ago that adoption became a more open arrangement. Rather than no contact whatsoever and a secretive approach, birth and adoptive parents began communicating both before and after the adoption. Now there are all sorts of variations -- from exchanging occasional letters and pictures to more frequent contact. Still, it can be a difficult decision that raises boundary issues, among others. In New Hampshire, the tendency has been toward more minimal involvement. We'll look at this and

The coyote is the stuff of legends, but author Dan Flores says those tales don't come close to capturing its incredible survival story. We talk with Flores, the author of the new book "Coyote America" and trace the history of the coyote. Flores calls it "a kind of Manifest Destiny in reverse" where, in the war between coyote and human, the coyote wins - hands down.

A new book by Stephen Long describes how this giant storm transformed the New England landscape and seared itself into the memory of its people. We’ll delve into just how big it was, the wide-ranging impacts, including how the hurricane created public works projects and developed new thinking around forestry. We'll also talk about preparation for the next inevitable great storm. This program was originally broadcast on 4/11/16.