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Trustees Question Commissioner on Tech Financial Aid
By Josh Rogers on Wednesday, May 31, 2006.At a meeting of the state's community technical college trustees, the focus was on the problems with student financial aid. The technical college system has struggled with flawed management of the 20 million dollar program for many years. The trustees were responding to recent news that the system has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on consultants to keep the financial aid program running. --an expense that caught lawmakers by surprise.
Scientists Add New Life to Decimated Oyster Populations
By Kerry Grens on Wednesday, May 31, 2006.
Fifteen years ago, the Great Bay estuaries were an oyster metropolis.
Twenty five million animals stacked atop shells of their dead ancestors formed acres and acres of oyster reef.
Now, the Great Bay is more like an oyster ghost town, with just a fraction of its former population.
Scientists at the University of New Hampshire are working to reverse the oyster’s decline by reseeding the estuaries.
New Hampshire Public Radio’s Kerry Grens has more.
Council Will Vote On Tech College Financial Aid Consultant
By Josh Rogers on Wednesday, May 31, 2006.The NH Community Technical College System has been paying consultants hundreds of thousands of dollars to fix its ailing financial aid system. Whether the investment has paid off remains an open question. What is certain, however, is that neither the Executive Council nor the Legislature was aware the system was spending so much money to deal with its problems.
Plotting the Garden
By Shay Zeller on Wednesday, May 31, 2006.Come all ye gardeners! How does your garden grow? Tonight on The Front Porch we're asking for your questions specific to your garden. Leave your questions on our listener line, 603-223-2473, and we'll pose them to our guests. We talk to Boston Globe columnist Carol Stocker, the author of The Boston Globe Illustrated New England Gardening Almanac. And we'll check-in with naturalist Rosemary Conroy to find out if this Spring's large amounts of rainfall will mean extra mosquitoes and other insects this summer.
PHOTO: Front Porch producer Andrew Walsh's first attempt at gardening this year.
New Hampshire Legislature 2006
By Laura Knoy on Wednesday, May 31, 2006.Bills on child sexual predators, the school “drop out†age, and use of deadly force topped a long list of legislation, that was voted on, passed, rejected or tabled for now. Today on the Exchange, we’ll look at the victories, the defeats, the surprises of New Hampshire's 2006 legislative season, and how the first half of the year might affect the second half with campaigning this summer and elections in the fall. Laura's guests are Colin Manning, Statehouse Reporter for Foster's Daily Democrat and Laconia Citizen. James Pindell, Managing Editor for PoliticsNH.com and Kevin Landrigan, Political Reporter for the Nashua Telegram. We'll also be joined by Jeff Feingold, Editor for the New Hampshire Business Review and Barbara Tetreault, Reporter for the Berlin Daily Sun.
