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We talk with New Hampshire Catholics one day after the installation of Boston's new Archbishop Sean O'Malley. We'll ask how they're coping, how they are healing, and if they are moving on from the sexual abuse crisis over one year ago. Laura's guests are Pat Ford, parishioner, lector, and eucharistic minister at St. Theresa's Church in Rye and Anne Coughlin, member of NH Catholics for Moral Leadership. We'll also hear from Kathryn Marchocki, staff reporter for the Union Leader, and Ann Riggs, Professor of Religious Studies at Rivier College in Nashua.

One quarter of the New Hampshire's children are overweight or at risk. Researchers, teachers and state officials met earlier this month at "New Hampshire Healthy Schools Day" to talk about strategies for dealing with the problem. One approach is to get schools and families working together to promote better nutrition and more exercise for kids. Our guests are Tamara Martin, a research assistant professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the University of New Hampshire; and Rae Pica, author of YOUR ACTIVE CHILD: HOW TO BOOST PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL, AND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT THROUGH AGE-APPROPRIATE ACTIVITY.

We'll take a look at the growing problem of childhood obesity and what is being done today to help combat the problem. Guests TBA.

The indictment of Manuel Gehring has put Concord on the national map. Tragedies in small communities bring grief counselors to action and inundate quiet streets with news vans and curious onlookers. We look at and learn about how several small New Hampshire town have dealt with past tragedies. Our guests are Gerri King, social psychologist with Human Dynamics Associates, Inc. in Concord; Timothy Wildman, a pastoral psychotherapist in Concord; and John Harrigan, publisher of the Colebrook News and Sentinel.

The former Governor of Vermont is running for the presidency along with eight other Democrats. We'll find out more about who Howard Dean is and why he left his medical practice with his wife to first pursue the Governorship and now the White House.

American culture is becoming increasingly technology-driven and it seems that we, as consumers, both love it and hate it. We'll find out more about the role technology plays in today?s culture. Laura's guests are Jim Barry, Media Spokesperson for the Consumer Electronics Association and Nancy Hanger, columnist for Byte Magazine and Director of Windhaven Press.