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Next on New Hampshire Outlook tonight. Hate and Tolerance. As one New Hampshire town wrestles with a recent hate crime, another community seeks to foster tolerance. Meet the people working to make a change. The Brock trial continues in Concord. and Did you know that New Hampshire has a Poet Laureate? Meet the woman behind the words. |
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Good Evening. I'm Allison McNair. Welcome to New Hampshire Outlook. We begin tonight with a summary of today's news. |
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Chief Justice David Brock said he wasn't entirely truthful when answering some questions posed by the house judiciary committee. He said he was concerned that his answers would violate court confidentiality rules. David Brock completed his testimony in Day 13 of his impeachment trial. There were some emotional moments as well. We'll have a wrap-up of the day's testimony in just a few minutes. |
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If one member of the house judiciary committee has his way, it will only take a simple majority vote to convict Chief Justice David Brock in his impeachment trial. State Representative Alf Jacobson is trying to stop the Senate from requiring a two-thirds vote for conviction. Instead - Jacobson feels the vote should be a simple majority. A simply majority was used in the house. Under the two-thirds rule - 15 of the 22 senators votes would be needed to convict. With a simple majority that number drops to 12. Jacobson has asked the Merrimack Superior Court for a temporary restraining order to prevent the Senate from voting on impeachment. Senate President Beverly Hollingworth said the trial will continue despite the lawsuit. |
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The town of Bethlehem New Hampshire is taking the company that operates its dump to Court. The suit aims to keep a high-tech incinerator out of town. The system would burn landfill gasses and evaporate water that's pooling under the trash heap. There's concern that toxic particles will be released into the air when the waste is burned. The company says the risk is miniscule. |
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Maybe you didn't like the cool weather this summer, but whether you realized it or not, your lungs did. The Environmenal Protection Agency says cool temperatures helped keep the air cleaner in New Hampshire. There was only one day this summer when ground-level ozone pollution was considered unhealthy for people with respiratory diseases. That makes it the lowest number of unhealthy days since the EPA began monitoring smog in 1983. Ground-level ozone, or smog, is created when car exhausts and power plant smoke mix with hot, humid air. |
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That's the news summary. We'll be back with our focus on hate and tolerance, the impeachment trial and more after the weather. |
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Chief Justice David Brock concluded his third and final day of testimony today in his Senate Impeachment trial. Richard Ager and Tom Rath review today's proceedings. which included some emotional moments by a senator hearing the case. TRT: outcue: |
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Closing arguments are expected to begin when the trial resumes tomorrow morning at 9:30. You can watch gavel to gavel coverage here on New Hampshire Public Television and listen to it on New Hampshire Public Radio. |
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In recent months, the city of Rochester has been plagued by several incidents of racist graffiti. The latest outbreak happened last month. Producer Richard Ager looks at how Rochester and many other New Hampshire communities have had to confront the painful issue of racial slurs and hate crimes. |
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Joining me now in the studio are Anne May of the Citizens Advocating Tolerance and Chief Bill Baker of the Laconia Police Department. |
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Some might say why are we even worried about hate crime here in NH. Tell me how you have seen or heard of incidents in your own community Chief - why did you get involved with creating a council to deal with diversity in Laconia? Anne, why are you involved? What do you hope to achieve? |
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I'd like to thank our guests Anne May and Chief Bill Baker for joining us tonight. |
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In business news. some 25 hundred new jobs are expected to be created over the next few years at the new Cisco systems plant. The plant officially celebrated its opening yesterday in Salem, New Hampshire. Cisco manufacture fiber optic networking equipment. The company is a leader in internet networking technology and expects continued growth in New England. Apple growers are harvesting a bumper crop this season. The Keene Sentinel reports today that this summer's weather has produced more, larger and better tasting apples than the past two years. The firewood business is also smoking. The seacoastonline news reports the price of firewood is rising with demand. One firewood provider says people are ordering earlier in anticipation of higher winter fuel rates. |
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There are a lot of reasons to be proud of living here in New Hampshire. One of them is the fact that we have a Poet Laureate. Chip Neal went to visit with her at her home in Barrington. |
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,. MH: There is a little quote in the beginning from the Concord Monitor about the man who tends to the Old Man of the Mountain. The poem is called Common Coin. I remember my Dad used to tell people that he gave the Old Man a shave and a haircut--shave and a haircut two bits. Profilius looks mighty fine on the coin's stateside. Shored up, spit-shinned in mint condition you might say for today's unveiling. But even gussied up, the quarter is still a common coin clinking in the pockets of poor and rich alike. A coin with which to buy time for a load or two of laundry. Time in the parking meter's monitor of our comings and goings. Time enough to sip a takeout coffee, phone a friend. Though time is as they say money, it's time that we never get enough of and no minted coin is more valuable than that. Still, this Old Man's granite visage, sculpted from a rock hard, rock-ribbed history, tempered in the kiln's of summer fire and winter ice, is now--to coin a phrase--coin of New Hampshire's realm and as such in service to the general welfare, well spent, here. VO: What's the health of poetry in New Hampshire these days? MH: Well, if you can judge by the most recent anthology that has just come out called UNDER THE LEGISLATURE OF STARS by the Oyster River Press that represents sixty some odd contemporary New Hampshire poets and that doesn't cover all of them. So, I would say very healthy. VO: When and why did poetry stop having to rhyme? MH: Well, I'm not sure that it has stopped having to rhyme.poetry.Rhyming and poetry is just one device, and sometimes rhyming is the exact effect you want and other times rhyming gets in the way. VO: If I don't understand a piece of poetry, does that mean it is bad? MH: I would answer that question this way. If you are reasonably well read, if you are reading or hearing a poem in your own language, and if upon hearing it or reading it once or twice you still don't understand it, then I would say the burden is on the poet. I don't think that poetry is meant to be something that takes an incredible amount of specialized knowledge to understand. It never was meant to be that way. VO: And finally, I asked New Hampshire state poet Laureate for a closing thought about poetry. MH: Something, I think that William Carlos Williams said, I'm just paraphrasing but that the news that is to be found in poetry is such that everyday people are dying for lack of it. That somehow poetry is providing us with something we dearly dearly need to know to live our lives. |
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Tomorrow on New Hampshire Outlook. The leaf peepers are among us. Autumn is just one of the many seasons that bring tourists to the Granite State. Is tourism still big business? The Brock impeachment trial moves into its fourteenth day. And the glories of autumn in the poetry of Robert Frost. |
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That's all for Outlook tonight. Thanks for joining us. Stay tuned for Nova. We'll be back tomorrow at 7:30. Good night. |
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Hello, I'm Allison McNair. tonight on New Hampshire Outlook. As one New Hampshire town wrestles with a hate crime, another seeks tolerance. Meet the people working to make a change. Join us tonight at 7:30 for New Hampshire Outlook. |