1. Growing Pains: What One N.H. Farmer Is Doing To Make Local Food More Profitable
With almost 60 farmers markets across the state, demand for local food is growing. But local farmers still struggle to make a profit growing local food. In fact, about three quarters of all farms in New Hampshire gross less than $10,000 from sales each year.
2. N.H. Oyster Farming Begins To Boom?
Oyster farming in the Great Bay Estuary is in the midst of a little bit of a boom. In recent years, the number of oyster farms has leapt from 1 to 8, with more on the way. These gains are boosting the hopes that using these filter feeders as an “outside-the-pipes” way to clean up the waters of the Great Bay could become a reality.
3. Market Basket Family Feud Could Oust Grocery Chain’s CEO
Anyone who’s gone grocery shopping at Market Basket knows the slogan: where you always get more for your dollar. But who exactly might be offering those purported savings may be about to change.
4. Northern Pass Blankets State With Brochure Touting New Route
Northern Pass officials are blanketing the state with a brochure touting a recently-proposed new route for the controversial project that would bury nearly eight miles of power lines.
5. Another Setback For Balsams’ Financing
The owners of the Balsams resort in Dixville Notch have run into another problem coming up with the $30 million needed to renovate the closed resort and put as many as 300 full or part-time employees back to work.
6. Are Antibiotics On The Farm Risky Business?
You've probably seen the labels on meat in the store: "Raised without antibiotics." They're a selling point for people who don't like how many drugs are used on chickens, turkey, hogs and beef cattle.
7. Silence And Photographs: Nashua Man Walking To California
It’s summer. And for many college grads, a last chance to do something daring before entering the real world. Greg Hindy plans to spend a year walking from New Hampshire to California. He calls it a performance art project, mostly because of the unusual rules of the journey: Greg Hindy is taking a yearlong vow of silence.
8. The Cheshire Murders: The Crime That Rocked A Small Town
In July of 2007, the sleepy suburban town of Cheshire, Connecticut woke up to a house set ablaze, three fatalities, one survivor, and two suspects caught fleeing the scene. What had started as a home invasion and robbery had ended in rape, arson, and a triple homicide. A new full-length documentary debuting tonight on HBOexplores how the Cheshire murders scarred the town, terrorized the survivors, and sparked public debate in a state poised to abolish capital punishment.
9. Early Results Show Dartmouth Having Success With New Payment Model
One key aspect of the federal health overhaul law is a transition away from a fee-for-service system, where hospitals and doctors get paid, for example, per lab test or re-admission. To help test new models under so-called Obamacare, 32 hospitals nationwide launched an alternative system called an Accountable Care Organization (ACO). Results looking at the first year of the program show Dartmouth-Hitchcock as one of 18 hospitals that succeeded in lowering costs compared to a control group of Medicare patients.
10. Changing The Game On Climate Change
Last month, President Obama vowed to take on climate change, bypassing Congress and pledging to use his authority under existing laws. The centerpiece of his plan is imposing, for the first time, limits on carbon emissions from existing power plants. Environmentalists applauded the announcement, but industry representatives balked, calling the approach heavy handed and warning of plant closures.