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By Laura Knoy on Thursday, December 5, 2002.

State legislators are sworn in this week and House and Senate leadership’s being chosen. Lawmakers have a full plate next year: the state budget, paying for schools, and child protection just to name a few. Laura's guests are statehouse reporters Kevin Landrigan, Telegraph of Nashua www.nashuatelegraph.com and Tom Fahey, The Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News www.theunionleader.com.

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Inside and Outside the FBI

By John Walters on Thursday, December 5, 2002.

Paul Lindsay was a field agent for the FBI for over 20 years. He grew disenchanted with the internal politics of the Bureau and wrote a novel exposing some of its shortcomings. That effectively ended his career in law enforcement, and launched a new life as a novelist. We talk about both his careers and his new novel ?Traps.?

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Governor-Elect Benson Requests 5% Budget Cuts

By Mark Bevis on Thursday, December 5, 2002.

State agency commissioners received some bad news this afternoon.

Governor-elect Craig Benson has asked department heads to resubmit their budgets for next year.

And he's asking them to cut their requests by five percent.

The single largest state agency is the Department of Health and Human Services.

Acting commissioner Cathy Sgambatti tells NHPR's Mark Bevis the cuts will be tough.

But the news was not unexpected.

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That was Attorney General Philip McLaughlin.

He was speaking with NHPR's Mark Bevis.

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