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Next on the Friday Roundtable edition of New Hampshire Outlook. Journalists from around the state discuss the issues. Tonight. the campaign trail, the resignation of Justice Sherman Horton and property tax lawsuits. |
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Good Evening. I'm Allison McNair. Welcome to tonight's Roundtable edition of New Hampshire Outlook. We begin tonight with a summary of state news. |
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To those of us who live here, our top story comes as no suprise. New Hampshire is a great place to live. The 2000 edition of Smalltown U-S-A has ranked North Conway among the 70 best places in the nation to live. Low crime, clean air and relaxed pace of life are some of the reasons cited. Of the 13 eastern states cited, New Hampshire ranked second in number of towns chosen. Florida came in first. |
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Some brochures on New Hampshire's proposed "home rule" constitutional amendment may be pulled from city and town halls around the state. The Secretary of State's office referred questions about the brochures to the Attorney Generals office. An attorney there says they appear to be a form of political advertising. The Municipal Association which published the brochures favoring home rule says its intention was to produce an unbiased informative guide for voters who want to understand the amendment. |
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Should you know where your children go if their on the internet at school? One Exeter parent thinks the answer is yes. The father of four is awaiting a court decision on whether he'll be able to look at the internet logs of schools in his town. He says trust and occasional spot checks by teachers aren't enough to keep children clear of the adult content or pornography on the internet. School officials say handing over logs would violate the children's privacy and federal law. They also questioned the reliability of filtering programs, which screen out Web sites that contain objectionable material. A decision in the one-day trial at Rockingham County Superior Court is expected soon. |
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Tonight's scheduled Congressional debates have been cancelled. They were to be broadcast here on New Hampshire Public Television beginning at 8pm tonight. Congress is still in session and two of the candidates will be unable to make it back from Washington. Another date has yet to be determined. It all depends on when Congress adjourns. |
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Standard time returns this weekend. Before you go to bed on Saturday night, you'll want to turn your clocks back one hour. People in Arizona, Hawaii and parts of Indiana are the only ones who don't adjust their clocks. They're already on Standard time. The rest of us make the change because we switch to Daylight time April First. |
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That's our news summary. Tonight's Roundtable is coming up in just a few minutes. But first, here's a look at your weekend weather forecast. |
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TONIGHT BECOMING MOST CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS LATE LOWS 40 TO 50 TOMORROW MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH SHOWERS LIKELY NORTH VARIABLECLOUDINESS ELSEWHERE A CHANCE OF SHOWERS CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST. HIGHS MOSTLY IN THE 50s SUNDAY PARTLY TO MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF RAIN OR SNOW SHOWERS. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 30s TO UPPER 40s |
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Time for our weekly edition of Roundtable on New Hampshire Outlook. Joinng me here in the studio this week, Laura Kiernan, columnist for the Boston Globe - NH Weekly and Lars Trodson, city editor of the Portsmouth Herald. |
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On Monday's NH Outlook We look at Service learning. Simply stated, it is a way of teaching that links community service experiences to classroom instruction And we'll spend some time in the classroom with NH's Teacher of the Year |
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As I mentioned earlier, tonight's scheduled Congressional debates have been cancelled. They were to be broadcast here on New Hampshire Public Television next at 8pm. Congress is still in session and two of the candidates will be unable to make it back from Washington. Another date has yet to be determined. It all depends on when Congress adjourns. |
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That's all for this edition of Outlook tonight. Thanks for joining us. For all of us here at New Hampshire Public Television, I'm Allison McNair. Thanks for joining us. Stay tuned for the McLaughlin Group. We'll be back Monday at 7:30. |
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Thanks to our founding sponsors who have provided major funding for the production of New Hampshire Outlook: New Hampshire Charitable Foundadtion Public Service of New Hampshire Alice J. Reen Charitable Trust Putnam Foundation Stratford Foundation |
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Harry Potter dewman Harry Potter will stay in Alexandria school program -- Harry Potter will stay in classrooms in Alexandria , but one child may not. The Newfound Area School District has denied a request from a parent to stop a teacher from reading the popular books aloud in her daughter's third-grade classroom. Julie Barker says her daughter had nightmares after the readings. The books are based on Potter's attempts to escape an evil figure who killed his parents. Barker is appealing to the School Board, but in the meantime, she says her child will leave the classroom when the books are read. |
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New buildings are being planned for the University System of New Hampshire. The system will ask for 185-million dollars to build science, engineering and technology buildings at campuses in Durham, Keene and Plymouth. Trustees say they also plan to borrow 100 million dollars to build new dining halls, dorms and recreation centers and renovate others. |