A Black Lives Matter protest more accessible to those in the disabled community is being organized for next Friday in Portsmouth.
The State We’re In host Melanie Plenda, NH Business and Economics Affairs Commissioner Taylor Caswell, Business New Hampshire Magazine Reporter Judi Currie and Boston Globe Real Estate Reporter Catherine Carlock discuss what New Hampshire and Massachusetts are considering to address the shortage of affordable housing in the region.
Alisa Druzba works in rural health, but over the past few years she noticed another issue permeating her work. “Transportation comes up in every conversation,” said Druzba, director of the New Hampshire Office of Rural Health & Primary Care, part of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
It’s a common tactic: a police officer gets a hunch about a vehicle, uses a minor traffic violation to pull it over and questions the driver about their travels, checking out suspicions that have nothing to do with traffic safety. In states around the country, officials are reconsidering whether it’s a good idea. It’s unclear if New Hampshire safety officials are following suit.
N.H. State Trooper Haden Wilber was stationed on Interstate 95 in Hampton one afternoon in February 2019 when he began following a car he found suspicious, a Toyota Camry with tinted windows and Connecticut plates.
“The vehicle had drawn my attention to it due to how clean it was, given the age of the vehicle and current weather conditions in New England,” Wilber wrote in a police report.
Even before the pandemic, schools struggled with eruptions of violence. As the pandemic wanes, those eruptions seem even more frequent. What’s going on in schools and what can be done to help? School psychologist and consultant Dr. Nate Jones joins The State We’re In host Melanie Plenda to discuss the issues.
News updates, photos and videos coming out of Ukraine have been horrifying. Watching millions flee their homes during the fighting has been equally heartbreaking. One granite Stater studying in Europe is doing what she can to help the refugees pouring into Poland. Wolfeboro natives Rebecca Connelly and her father, Jamie, about Rebecca's work helping Ukrainian refugees in Poland.
This has been a busy week in the legislature, as both the House and the Senate wrap up their work for Crossover Day — the deadline for House bills to make their way to the Senate and Senate bills to make their way to the House. Anna Brown, the director of Research and Analysis for Citizens Count and host of the podcast “$100 Plus Mileage,” and New Hampshire Bulletin Reporter Ethan DeWitt talk with The State We’re In host Melanie Plenda about what Crossover Day is and what it means for Granite Staters.
It was winter. It was snowing in New Hampshire. She was driving on a highway.
A pick-up truck pulled beside her car. The driver gave her the middle finger. Behind her, the driver of another vehicle did the same.
“At first I wondered, ‘What have I done wrong?’ But then I thought, ‘OK, I’m not a white person. I forgot about that.’ If people can do that to me, what about my friends?”
"If I were to write a futuristic dystopian novel, it would begin with a deadly pandemic as a backdrop. The schools in my dystopian novel would be infested with violence and apathy," said Freeman, an English teacher at Nashua High School North. "Hundreds of teacherless students a day would be herded like cattle into viral holding pens to wait out the day, because there was no one available to come in and teach them."
The price of gas affects so many things beyond our ability to fill our tanks, from the cost of food to your next vacation. Gas prices have dropped a few cents a gallon in the last week. Will it continue? Or will there be more pain at the pump? Discussing the price of gas with The State We’re In host Melanie Plenda are Business NH Magazine Editor Matt Mowry and AAA of Northern New England spokesman Pat Moody.
It’s Sunshine Week, the annual initiative spearheaded by the News Leaders Association to educate the public on open government and the dangers of excessive secrecy. Gilles Bissonnette from the American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire, Right-to-Know New Hampshire’s Carla Gericke, and Concord Monitor reporter Cassidy Jensen discuss New Hampshire’s Right-to-Know Law, how it’s applied, and how it can be improved with The State We’re In host Melanie Plenda.
