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Jane Cormier host of Artful Living welcomes Josh Hardy from ConcordTV! Jane and Josh discuss all the happenings at Concord TV and more! Tune in for a lively discussion about media and the expansion of community outreach.

The Southern New Hampshire baseball team is seeking its’ first NCAA Division Two championship and SNHU’s Communications Assistant Bob Lipman joined the program to discuss the team’s remarkable season and their upcoming must win game this afternoon against defending National Champion North Greenville.

The first Tuesday of each month features a visit with the New Hampshire Insurance Department and today we focused on the Life and Health Division with its’ Chief Examiner Maureen Belanger. Maureen discussed the aspects of the insurance industry her department investigates and regulates. Also with us on the Tuesday program was local stage and screen producer/director Donald Tongue. Donald is currently working on a short film entitled “Home Burial” based on a Robert Frost poem of the same name. Filming begins this month at Canterbury Shaker Village.

Author Isabella Maldonado was our Monday guest. Her just-released book, “A Killer’s Game” is already drawing rave reviews. Isabella spent more than two decades in law enforcement, serving in various capacities in Fairfax County, Virginia just outside of Washington D.C. She is now a Wall Street Journal best-selling author and her 2020 book, “The Cipher”, is in the process of becoming a Netflix feature film starring Jennifer Lopez.

Host Chris Ryan breaksdown the Celtics loss in Game 7 of the Eastern Finals to the Heat with Jayson Tatum, Marcus Smart, Derrick White and Malcolm Brogdon. He also goes one-on-one with baseball stars Jarren Duran, Corey Kluber and Jonathan India.

It's Friday, which means the Friday Fun Bunch is in the WKXL Studios! Ken Cail interviews Tom Raffio, President & CEO of Northeast Delta Dental and Kitty Rae the OFFICIAL “Flick Chick."

Senior Reporter AnnMarie Timmins of the New Hampshire Bulletin joins A. J. Kierstead to Medicaid coverage for at home and expanded coverage, as well as how mental illness ‘doesn’t have to overtake you’. More from her at https://newhampshirebulletin.com

The classic Edward Albee play “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Is currently playing at the Hatbox Theater in Concord and three members of the Hatbox team joined WKXL to get the month of June off to a great start!

The producer of the show and one of the four actors in the play, Alex Picard, was with us to discuss her portrayal of Martha and the fact that she’s waited since she was 19 to perform in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

Director Gary Locke, a veteran actor-producer-writer-lighting designer talked about the challenges of this play and how he enjoyed directing this intense drama in the intimate space that the Hatbox provides.

Andrew Pinard designed the Hatbox theatre and has been the driving force behind its’ growth over the past nine years. Andrew is featured regularly at the Hatbox in his presentation of “Discovering Magic”. For more information visit www.hatboxnh.com

Award winning journalist Nancy West joined the Wednesday program. Nancy was a long time reporter at the New Hampshire Union Leader who nine years ago founded The NH. Center for Public Interest Journalism which publishes InDepthNH.com of which she is the Executive Editor. Also with us on the show, 2024 Republican Presidential candidate Larry Elder a former radio talk show host and Fox News pundit. Elder made his first run for elected office in 2021 as a Republican candidate in the recall election of California’ governor, Gavin Newsom.

This week on Facing the Future, we get expert analysis from the Concord Coalition's policy director Tori Gorman and chief economist Steve Robinson on the debt limit deal struck between President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to avert a federal default. We also hear excerpts from a very interesting forum held last week with Harvard economist Jason Furman and Rohit Kumar of PricewaterhouseCoopers who both question the efficacy of even having a debt limit at all. Furman and Kumar were involved in negotiations between President Obama and Republicans in Congress during the last debt limit crisis in 2011.