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Many New Hampshire high schools and some middle schools educate students from more than one town. Most of the time, these arrangements work fine, but there are moments when it's not one big happy family, as voters now in the Kearsarge area are finding out. We'll look at regional schools- when they work – when they don't – and why. Laura's guests are Mark Joyce, Executive Director of the New Hampshire School Administrator's Association and Ted Comstock, Executive Director and Legal Counsel for the New Hampshire School Boards Association. We'll also hear from Margot Sanger-Katz, Reporter for the Concord Monitor and Carl Nelson, Superintendent for SAU #9 in the North Country and President of the New Hampshire School Administrator's Association.

President Bush is touting alternative energy this week in an effort to help ease America’s dependence on foreign oil. We’ll look at what New England states are doing to promote alternative sources of fuel, including using grass pellets in Vermont and a public service project in New Hampshire that will replace a major coal-burning plant with a new cleaner and greener one. Laura's guest is Eric Kingsley, Vice-President for Research and Government Affairs at Innovative Natural Resource Solutions in Portland, Maine. Eric formerly served as Executive Director of the New Hampshire Timberland Owners Association for five years. We'll also hear from Steve Walker, President, Founder and CEO of New England Wood Pellet, Martin Murray, Media Representative for PSNH and the Northern Wood Power Project, and Jock Gill, President of the Grass Energy Collaborative, an organization based in Vermont that is committed to developing grass energy as a renewable biofuel.

A bill calling for 45 mile per hour day time speed limits on all Granite State lakes and rivers scored a big victory earlier this month when House lawmakers gave it the thumbs up. According to a recent poll, a majority of New Hampshire residents support limiting how fast boats can travel, but it will take a majority of the state’s Senators to turn the proposal into law. And how they feel about the idea remains unclear. We’ll take a look at the debate.

Laura's guests are TBA

For President’s Day, we bring you our earlier conversation with Pulitzer-prize winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin…at the Music Hall in Portsmouth. Kearns Goodwin presented her latest book “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln….Laura later joined her on stage with a few questions of her own…and from our live audience. We’ll bring you that performance.

Law enforcement in New Hampshire has uncovered 15 methamphetamine labs over the last year and half… the highest number of busts by far of any new England state. Officials caution that the spike is nothing to panic about yet, but they’re moving quickly to prevent a crisis that has left many communities throughout the nation devastated. We’ll look at what’s proposed to thwart meth making and ask why the drug is so dangerous when it takes root.

Laura's guests are Jacqui Abikoff, Executive Director of the Horizons Counseling Center, Special Agent Leo Ducey of the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration, and Jane Young, Senior Assistant District Attorney in New Hampshire.