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Tax reform and education funding are not the same issue and it is time for NH to look at the inadequacies of its current tax system. Commentator Arnesen says NH pays the highest property taxes in the nation through a system that is "inelastic, outdated and indiscriminatory."

Last year New Hampshire won international attention when the legislature voted to repeal the state's death penalty. Opponents of capital punishment are pressing the issue again, even though Governor Shaheen is standing by her belief that some crimes are serious enough to merit death.

A state committee on adequate education says the state should monitor school performance and give poor school districts just three years to improve.

Thanks to our free enterprise system life in America is better than ever says one of our guests. Others say advances in health, wealth and racial equality are true-to a point-but that government regulation and social activism and deserve credit for keeping unbridled capitalism in check. Steve's joined by Stehen Moore (www.clubforgrowth.org) co-author of "It's Getting Better All the Time: 100 Greatest Trends of the Last 100 Years," and Jared Bernstein, Labor Economist with the Economic Policy Institute (www.epinet.org)

Proponents of electric power deregulation used to promise lower prices and much more. But, instead of lower prices, the deregulation experiment in California has led to severe price hikes for millions of customers, and recently, to several days of rolling blackouts. As New Hampshire readies itself for the next phase of its electric deregulation in April, some customers fear the California experience will be repeated here. NHPR?s David Darman has more.