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Charles Jordan, one of the long time eyes and ears of New Hampshire's North Country has collected a tome of tales of the weird and wonderful from the Northern part of our state….Native American apparitions, witches, ghosts, local characters, even murder and the apocalypse. This book, perfect for the Halloween season, presents fourteen of these stories featuring unsolved mysteries, supernatural meanderings and other tales of intrigue.

In New Hampshire, 2 percent of working women earn more than $100,000 a year, 8 percent of CEOs are women, 58 percent of current college graduates are women, 67 percent of workers at or near minimum wage are women. These are the findings of new study on the Economic Status of Women in the Granite State. We'll take a closer look at what the report found, where women are doing well, where they aren't, and what the economic status of women means for the health of the state. Laura is joined by Ross Gittell, Professor of Management at UNH's Whittemore School of Business and Economics and Marjorie Smith, State Representative from Durham and Chair of the New Hampshire Women's Policy Institute.

Last year in Dover, Pennsylvania, the school board voted in favor of a policy that requires science teachers in the public schools to make their students aware of a theory of evolution outside the widely accepted Darwinism called "Intelligent Design". Also known as "ID", the controversial idea claims that evolution is a planned guided process from God, not one of natural selection. Now the Dover School Board is in court, after a group of angry parents took issue with the board's position, on the grounds that religion should stay out of the public schools. The Dover case is one of the more heated examples of the new wave of challenges to Darwinism, and its causing public schools across the country to address how or whether to teach Intelligent Design in their classrooms. We'll look at the debate. Laura is joined by David DeWolf, Professor of Law at Gonzaga Law School. Mr. DeWolf filed a brief for the Dover case on behalf of the Discovery Institute, a think tank that promotes Intelligent Design. Laura will also be joined by Dr. Jeremy Gunn, Director of the ACLU program on Freedom of Religion and Belief. Dr. Gunn will be at the Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord on Sunday, October 23rd, discussing Intelligent Design.

New Hampshire like every other state is unique… the first in the nation primary, Live Free or Die, the only "Henniker" on earth, a moose lottery, and the McDowell Colony. New Hampshire Union Leader columnist John Clayton has been called our state's "leading cultural maven", so who better to author a book about the 101 quintessential people, places, events, customs, lingo and little known facts about our great state. Did you know that the rock group Aerosmith's roots lie in the Granite State? Or that Archie comics creator Bob Montana wrote mainly from his experiences as a student at Manchester's Central High School? Or that the first tramway in America was built on Cannon Mountain? It's all in this book. Laura's guest is New Hampshire Union Leader columnist and author John Clayton.

New Hampshire Transportation Commissioner Carol Murray joins us to talk about the new strategy to transform transportation in the state by collaborating more closely with towns and looking more broadly at design impacts. We'll also talk about a number of projects including EZ Pass, I-93, and the more immediate concern of rebuilding roads and bridges in washed out parts of southwestern New Hampshire. Laura's guest is Carol Murray, Commissioner for New Hampshire's Department of Transportation.