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Hello. I'm Allison McNair. Welcome to NH Outlook. |
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The budget stalemate may be over. There was a meeting of minds at the statehouse today. We'll take you there. |
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Plus we'll find out what Granite Staters think about their own budgets - when we talk to UNH Survey Center's Andy Smith about his latest poll. |
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And later. living history through Chataqua. |
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But first. Legislators from the House and Senate reached a tentative agreement with the Governor today over changes to the budget. Richard Ager has the story. |
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Kurk- Thank you all, I really appreciate it. Benson - Neal always told me he wanted to do that - so we let that work out. Track: Perhaps it was the shared entrance of House finance chair Neal Kurk and Governor Benson that set the tone. Whatever the cause, it was the most amicable budget meeting yet between the governor and legislators as both sides clearly wanted a deal. Sen. Gatsas - We can add $13-15 million to the rainy day fund. Track: Senator Ted Gatsas started off with a proposal to cut the state's pharmaceutical costs by joining other states in bulk purchases of prescription drugs. Gatsas - We're getting close to the neighborhood, right Governor? Benson - We're knocking on the door, almost. Track: The governor proposed several measures to increase budget savings. Benson - I'd like to suggest that we continue the hiring freeze we've had in the six months since I've been governor. I issued that through an executive order. In the past 6 months, it has saved us $1.5 million in general funds. Track: Most of Benson's proposals concerned ways to increase state revenue, but he also looked for further cuts. Benson - In the committee of conference, there was some positions restored to the dept. of health and human services. What I'd like to do is find a way to eliminate those restored positions. It's about a $2 million number over the biennium. Track: That brought this response from Sen. Dick Green. Sen. Green - I'm wondering why you're so fixed on that issue where we spent 5 months going over all of these positions, all of these programs and wanted to make sure the services were being provided to the people of the state. And I think what you're proposing is not consistent with what your original pledge was when you gave us a committment to help people when you first became governor. And I'm very concerned that you're back there again. What is it that is gnawing at you that you want to cut Health and Human Services? Benson - I am not fixated on cutting anything. What I want to do is make sure we use our resources as wisely as possible. Track: By the end of the session, both sides agreed on the following savings: Graphic: $13 million by improving access to lower-cost health care for Medicaid patients, $13-15 million in pharmaceutical savings, $5 million cut to Department of Environmental Services, $7 million from a new liquor store in Nashua. $5 million from means testing for nursing home care $3 million from a hiring freeze Other savings bring the total to about $50 million. Clegg - Can we do a budget with what we have, and what this projection is, and call it a day for the citizens of NH. Get a new document and all go home for at least a few weeks. Benson - You can stay home longer than that if you want. Clegg - Not as long as you're here. Track: So there's a deal - tentatively. Eaton - There are a couple of items here regarding the hiring freezes and the positions that were put back in the budget - I think we have to have clarification on that. Mike Whalley/ Deputy Speaker - If we can receive those savings from the preferred drug list, for the means testing, and the others we identified earlier, those won't be cuts in our budget and the only change to our budget - if we accept it - would be the $5 million back of the budget reduction to the dept. of environmental services. Track: Legislators will review the proposed budget changes and meet again with the Governor on Aug. 7th. For NH Outlook, I'm richard Ager. |
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How do people in New Hampshire feel about their own budgets? Recently Andy Smith of the UNH Survey Center got some answers from his Granite State Poll. We went to his office to ask him about his findings. |
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I KNOW YOU TOOK A LOOK AT CONSUMER CONFIDENCE AND HOW PEOPLE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE ARE FEELING ABOUT THE ECONOMY. WHAT DID YOU FIND OUT? FOLKS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE ARE SOMEWHAT MIXED ABOUT THE ECONOMY. LOOKING JUST AT BUSINESS CONDITIONS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND WHEN ASKED TO THINK ABOUT WHAT THINGS WILL BE LIKE OVER THE NEXT TWELVE MONTHS, ABOUT 50% THINK THERE WILL BE GOOD TIMES FOR BUSINESSES IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, ONLY 32% THINK THEY'RE GOING TO BE BAD TIMES. THIS IS THE BEST WE'VE MEASURED FOR A YEAR PLUS, SO IT SEEMS THAT PEOPLE HAVE A SENSE THAT BUSINESSES ARE COMING OUT OF THE DOWNTURN THAT WE'VE HAD. BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THEIR OWN PERSONAL CONDITIONS, THEY THINK THEIR ABOUT THE SAME AS THEY WERE A YEAR AGO, BUT LOOKING PROGRESSIVELY MIXED. MOST THINK THEY'LL BE BETTER OFF A YEAR FROM NOW THAN THEY ARE RIGHT NOW. 35% OF THE PEOPLE IN THE STATE THINK THEIR FAMILY'S FINANCIAL CONDITION WILL BE BETTER A YEAR FROM NOW, ONLY 10% THINK IT WILL BE WORSE AND MOST PEOPLE THINK IT WILL BE ABOUT THE SAME. Allison: WHAT DID YOU FIND OUT COMPARED TO NATIONAL NUMBERS? ONE OF THE THINGS WE LOOKED AT WHEN WE LOOK AT NATIONALLY, PEOPLE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE ARE LESS POSITIVE ABOUT THE NATIONAL ECONOMY THAN THEY ARE ABOUT THE NEW HAMPSHIRE ECONOMY. AND IT'S PROBABLY BECAUSE SOME OF THE INFORMATION THEY'RE GETTING, AND THEY HAVE LESS PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE NATIONAL ECONOMY. OVERALL 49% OF THE PEOPLE IN THE STATE THINK THAT BUSINESS CONDITIONS IN THE U.S. OVER THE NEXT TWELVE MONTHS WILL BE GOOD, 31% THINK THEY'LL BE BAD TIMES, 20% THINK THEY'LL BE MIXED. AND LOOKING LONG TERM, ONLY 40% THINK THEY'RE GOING TO BE CONTINUOUS GOOD TIMES, 41% THINK THERE WILL BE PERIODS OF WIDESPREAD UNEMPLOYMENT OR RECESSION DEPRESSION OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS SO, THEY'RE A LITTLE LESS OPTIMISTIC OVER THE LONG TERM PROSPECTS WITH THE U.S. ECONOMY. Allison: YOU ALSO LOOKED AT POLITICAL PARTY AFFILIATION. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT CONSUMER CONFIDENCE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE RIGHT NOW IS THAT WE'RE SEEING VERY MUCH A POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE THAT'S COLORING PEOPLE'S OPINIONS. REPUBLICANS SEEM TO BE VERY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE ECONOMY, DEMOCRATS TEND TO BE PESSIMISTIC. SOME OF THIS MAY BE READING INTO THEIR HOPES FOR THE ELECTION COMING UP. REPUBLICAN, WE KNOW THAT IF THE PRESIDENT AND PRESIDENT'S PARTY GET THE CREDIT AND TAKE THE BLAME FOR THE ECONOMY, REPUBLICANS ARE HOPING THAT THE ECONOMY GETS BETTER SO THAT BUSH AND REPUBLICANS WILL GET THE CREDIT AND DO BETTER IN THE ELECTIONS IN 04. DEMOCRATS ARE SOMEWHAT HOPING THE ECONOMY DOESN'T DO BETTER SO BUSH GETS BLAMED FOR A POOR ECONOMY AND THAT THEREFORE DEMOCRAT CANDIDATES WILL DO BETTER. Allison: IS IT ALMOST WISHFUL THINKING IN A SENSE? YOU OH COULD SAY THAT. I DON'T THINK THE DEMOCRATS REALLY ARE HOPING THAT THE ECONOMY WILL BE WORSE. BUT POLITICALLY IT WILL BE BETTER FOR DEMOCRATS IF THE ECONOMY DOESN'T TURN AROUND QUICKLY. Allison: YOU MENTIONED ELECTIONS COMING UP. YOU LOOK A FAVORANT RATINGS FOR OUR CONGRESSMEN AND WE KNOW SENATOR GREG. SENATOR GREG IS IN PRETTY GOOD SHAPE COMING UP FOR ELECTION. 58% OF THE PEOPLE IN THE STATE HAVE A FAVORABLE OPINION OF HIM, ONLY 16% HAVE AN UNFAVORABLE OPINION AND THE REST ARE NEUTRAL OR DON'T KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT HIM TO SAY. HE'S HAD PRETTY SOLID FAVORABILITY RATINGS, IF WE LOOK AT HIS NET FAVORABILITY RATING, WHICH THE PEOPLE OF FAVORABLE RATING MINE TUS PEOPLE WHO HAVE AN UNFAVORABLE OPINION HIM, I BEEN IN THE PLUS 40% RANGE FOR THE LAST COUPLE YEARS. THAT'S A VERY STRONG SHOWING IF YOU'RE IN THE PLUS 40% RANGE. Allison: SO YOU HAVEN'T SEEN A LOT OF MOVEMENT THERE? NO, HE'S BEEN VERY SOLID, VERY STABLE. MOST PEOPLE KNOW HIM, MOST PEOPLE LIKE HIM. EVEN HAS PRETTY STRONG SUPPORT AMONG DEMOCRATS. Allison: LOOK LOOK AT JOHN SUNUNU. HIS FAVORABILITY RAILINGS ARE SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER THAN CRAIG'S. ONLY 48% SAID THEY HAVE A FAVORABLE OPINION OF YOU. YOU. HIS NUMBERS HAVE DROPPED FAIRLY SIGNIFICANTLY EVEN AS RECENTLY AS APRIL WHERE 55% SAID THEY WILL A FAVORABLE OPINION AND ONLY 23% HAD AN UNFAVORABLE OPINION. IT GETS BACK TO THAT NET NUMBER I LIKE TO LOOK AT. HIS NET IS ONLY AT PLUS 19. YOU REALLY WANT TO BE ABOUT PLUS 30 IN YOUR NET FAVORABILITY RATINGS. Allison: WHERE WAS HE AT AS A CONGRESSMAN? AS CONGRESSMAN IF YOU GO BACK TO 1992, OR EXCUSE ME, 2002, HE WAS IN THE MID TO UPPER PLUS 30s. Allison: ANY -- HE DROPPED SOME DURING THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST SENATOR SMITH AND I THINK SOME OF THE ADVERTISING HURT HIM DURING THAT PERIOD. Allison: WHAT ABOUT NOW, ANY GUESS AS TO WHY IT'S NOT UP AROUND THE 20 OR PLUS OR MORE, AS YOU SAY? ONE OF THE THINGS, WHEN YOU LOOK AT HIS INTERNALS BY PARTY IDENTIFICATION, HE DOES WELL AMONG REPUBLICANS AND CONSERVATIVES AS WOULD BE EXPECTED, BUT DEMOCRATS AND TO A LESSER EXTENT INDEPENDENTS HAVE A MUCH LESS FAVORABLE OPINION OF HIM. DEMOCRATS REALLY DON'T LIKE HIM, AND I THINK THAT HAS SOMEWHAT TO DO WITH HIS BEING MORE CONSERVATIVE AND MORE POLARIZING IN THE POLITICAL STANCES HE TAKES THAN SENATOR GREG HAS BEEN. Allison: LET'S LOOK IF WE COULD AT CONGRESS, EXCUSE ME, ON REPRESENTATIVES, AND WHO SHOULD WE TAKE FIRST? CHARLIE BASS BECAUSE HE'S OUR SENIOR REPRESENTATIVE. HE'S DOING PRETTY WELL. WITHIN HIS DISTRICT 54% OF FOLKS SAY THEY HAVE A FARABLE OPINION OF HIM, ONLY 15% HAVE AN UNFAVORABLE OPINION OF HIS NUMBERS HAVE BEEN PRETTY STABLE WITHIN THE DISTRICT. HE'S AT PLUS 39% IN HIS NET FAVORABILITY RATING, GOOD SOLID NUMBERS, HE LOOKS GOOD FOR RE-ELECTION THERE. BRADLEY IS DOING PRETTY WELL, HE'S STILL RELATIVELY UNKNOWN COMPARED TO BASS, ONLY 41% OF THE PEOPLE IN THE FIRST DISTRICT HAVE A FARABLE OPINION OF HIM, ONLY 14% HAD AN UNFAVORABLE OPINION, THE REST ALMOST HALF, 45% SAY THEY DON'T KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT HIM TO HAVE A FAVORABLE OR UNFAIRABLE OPINION. AND HIS NET FAVORABILITY RATING IS PLUS 23% IN THE STRICT. SO HE'S DOING OKAY. EXCUSE ME, PLUS 27%. Allison: IF I AM CAMPAIGNING, IF I'M ONE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES CAMPAIGNING HERE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND I LOOK AT SOMETHING LIKE CONSUMER CONFIDENCE, OR I LOOK TO SEE HOW PEOPLE IN MY PARTY ARE FARING AS FAR AS FAVORABILITY RATINGS, DOES IT INFLUENCE HOW I'M GOING TO CAMPAIGN HERE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE? I THINK THE CONSUMER CONFIDENCE RATESINGS ARE STHAG THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES ARE CERTAINLY GOING TO HAVE TO PAY ATTENTION TO. NATIONWIDE WE'VE BEEN SEEING CONSUMER CONFIDENCE MEASURED AT LOWER LEVELS THAN YOU SEE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. AND THE MESSAGE THAT A NUMBER OF THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES HAVE BEEN PUTTING OUT IS THAT THE ECONOMY IS BAD AND THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION IS TO BLAME FOR THIS, I HAVE A BETTER ECONOMIC PLAN. THAT PROBABLY PLAYS VERY WELL IN OTHER PARTS OF THE COUNTRY, I THINK IT'S GOING TO PLAY LESS WELL IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. FOR A COUPLE REASONS. FIRST, WE FEEL BETTER ABOUT THE ECONOMY, AND EVEN DEMOCRATS FEEL OKAY ABOUT IT, THEY ARE NOT AS TRONG AS REPUBLICANS ARE. BUT THE ECONOMY HERE NEVER GOT TO THE SAME DOWN LEVELS AS OTHER PLACES, EVEN AS CLOSE AS MASSACHUSETTS. WE'VE BEEN RELATIVELY FLAT OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS, WHERE AS STATES AROUND US, MASSACHUSETTS, MAINE, NEW YORK, THEY'VE HAD BEEN IN RECESSION. SO I THINK IT'S NOT GOING TO BE AS STRONG OF A MESSAGE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE AS IT WOULD BE OTHER PLACES. THAT ALSO IS GOING TO TIE IN TO THE HEALTH CARE ISSUE, BECAUSE HEALTH CARE AND THE ECONOMY ARE VERY STRONGLY RELATED ISSUES. WHEN THE ECONOMY GOES BAD PEOPLE LOSE THEIR JOBS, THEY LOSE THEIR HEALTH CARE COVERAGE, IT'S THE IMMEDIATE THING THEY NOTICE. SO PEOPLE BECOME MUCH MORE CONCERNED ABOUT THEIR ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE AND HEALTH CARE INSURANCE WHEN THE ECONOMY IS BAD. Allison: YOU'VE ALSO CHECKED, HAVE YOU NOT, THROUGH YOUR SURVEYS TO SEE WHAT SEEMS TO BE MOST IMPORTANT TO PEOPLE HERE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE? YES. IN NEW HAMPSHIRE WHAT'S MOST IMPORTANT CONTINUES TO BE EDUCATION FUNDING. THAT'S BEEN THE MOST IMPORTANT PROBLEM ON THE MINDS OF PEOPLE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE FOR YEARS. AFTER THAT IT'S TAXES, JOBS AND THE ECONOMY ARE UP THERE AS NUMBER TWO, BUT IT'S A SIGNIFICANT DROP FROM EDUCATION FUNDING. AND THEN OTHER EDUCATION ISSUES. SO THERE ARE A LOT OF LOCAL ISSUES THAT WE'RE CONCERNED ABOUT, TAXES AND FUNDING EDUCATION. HEALTH CARE IS ONLY ABOUT TWO OR THREE PERCENT, IT'S PRETTY LOW. SO THE ECONOMIC MESSAGE IS GOING TO RESONATE, BUT THE LOCAL ISSUES OF FUNDING EDUCATION AND NOW MORE RECENTLY WITH THE PROBLEM OF BALANCING STAY BUDGET, THOSE ARE MUCH MORE ON THE MINDS OF PEOPLE IN THE STATE THAN ARE ISSUES ABOUT THE ECONOMY. Allison: SO IF I'M RUNNING A CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT WHAT DO I FOCUS IN ONTO GRAB SOME ATTENTION, ESPECIALLY DURING THE SUMMER MONTHS OF POTENTIAL VOTERS? IT'S A TOUGH TIME. VOTERS AREN'T PAYING THAT MUCH ATTENTION RIGHT NOW SO, WHAT I THINK YOU'RE TRYING TO DO IS GET YOUR NAME IN THE PAPER AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. WE'VE SEEN A NUMBER OF THE CANDIDATES CRITICIZING THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION ON IRAQ, I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY THE THING THAT'S GOING TO GET THEM THE MOST VISIBILITY RIGHT NOW. POLITICALLY IT MATE NOT BE THE SMARTEST THING LONG TERM, BUT RIGHT NOW THEY HAVE TO KEEP THEIR VISIBILITY UP. YOU GOTTA REMEMBER THAT WHEN I CANDIDATE IS CRITICIZING THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION ON IRAQ, AND THEY'RE RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT OF THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY, THAT'S RED MEAT TO A LOT OF THEIR CONSTITUENTS AND POTENTIAL VOTERS, SO EVEN THOUGH IT MAY NOT BE SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO HELP THEM IN THE GENERAL ELECTION, IN THE EARLY PRIMARIES IT WILL HELP SDMEM WILL CERTAINLY HELP THEM IN FUN RAISING. Allison: WHAT'S COMING UP NEXT FROM THE SURVEY CENTER? WE'RE GOING TO BE IN THE FIELD AGAIN IN SEPTEMBER WHERE WE'RE GOING TO BE COVERING A NUMBER OF THE SAME TOPICS AND LOOKING AT THE POLITICAL CANDIDATES A LITTLE MORE CLOSELY. BY SEPTEMBER I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE WILL START PAYING ATTENTION TO THE RACE. Allison: ANDY SMITH, THANKS SO MUCH. YOU'RE WELCOME. |
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There was a time when hay was as important as money. That's because hay fed the horses and oxen that provided transportation and did the work on farms. That was over a hundred years ago. But, some of the traditions of harvesting hay have survived thanks to an event called First Cut in Lyme. Which, also happens to be on our Commissioner of Agriculture, Steve Taylor's list of slices of the "real" New Hampshire. |
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ONE OF THE TRADITIONS OF SUMMER IS THE FIRST CUTTING, WHICH IS SPONSORED BY TUPPER VERY LAND TRUST, A REGIONAL LAND PROTECTION ORGANIZATION THAT'S BASED IN HANDOVER, AND REACHES UP AND DOWN THE CONNECTICUT VALLEY FOR ABOUT 50 MILES. IT'S IN THE BUSINESS OF PROTECTING LAND LIKE THIS BEAUTIFUL AGRICULTURAL LAB RIGHT HERE IN LYME, WHERE THIS YEAR'S FIRST CUTTING IS GOING ON RIGHT NOW. FOLKS ARE COMING HERE TO SEE THE OLD-TIME SKILLS, THE WAY HAY WAS MADE 100 OR MORE YEARS AGO. THESE ARE FOUR STRONG MOING MACHINES, WE'VE GOT RAEKS, HAY WAGONS, MEN WITH SOOITS. THIS IS A SYTHE HERE, AS YOU CAN TELL IT'S HAD A LOT OF USE, IT'S BEEN SHARP EPED MANY MANY TIMES, IT PRETTY THIN IN THAT AREA, THERE'S THE OLD CASTING, THAT INDICATES THAT'S A PRETTY OLD SCYTHE, AND IT'S STILL SERVICEABLE PIECE OF EQUIPMENT, NIBS ON THERE, STILL GOOD AND STRONG. EVERY ABLE-BODIED MALE IN RURAL NEW HAMPSHIRE WOULD KNOW HOW TO USE A SCYTHE, I WAS KEPT RAZOR SHARP, WHEN IT WAS TIME TO BEGIN HAYING AT THE EDGE OF THE FIELD ALL THE MEN OF THE FARM WOULD LINE UP. YOU ALWAYS PUT THE SLOW E MAN AT THE FRONT AND THE FASTER PEOPLE BEHIND AND THAT KEPT THE PRESSURE ON THE SLOW MAN TO KEEP UP THE PACE. WHEN I WAS GROWING UP, THE ROAD SIDES WERE ALWAYS THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OWNER. SO WE'D ALWAYS JOIN HAND WITH THE NEIGHBOR BELOW, AND ABOVE, SO WE ALWAYS MOED ALL THE ROAD SIDES BY HAND FROM POINT A TO POINT B. AND IF IT WAS A RAIN RAY DAY AND COULDN'T HAY, YOU'D MO THE ROAD SIDE. WHEN YOU GOT THE ROAD SIDE MOED, YOU'D GO FISHING. ABOUT 1870 CAME THE INVENTION OF THE MOWING MACHINE. THE MOWING MACHINE, A MECHANICAL DEVICE WHICH CUTS THE HAY AND IS PROPELLED BY HORSEPOWER. AND THE MOWING MACHINE WAS A TREMENDOUS BREAKTHROUGH, BECAUSE IT EASED THE LABOR REQUIREMENTS, SPEEDED UP THE HARVEST, AND ALLOWED FARMERS TO GET MORE HAY IN A LOT FASTER AND ALSO TO GET MORE HAY OF BETTER QUALITY IN THE BARN. BECAUSE AFTER ABOUT THE FOURTH OF JULY, THE QUALITY OF HAY GOES DOWNHILL IF IT'S NOT HARVESTED. WHERE DID YOU GET THIS MOWING MACHINE, BECAUSE THESE ARE HARD TO FINE? I BOUGHT IT OFF AN OLD FARMER WHO IS A NEIGHBOR OF MINE, GOOD FRIEND OF MINE, HAD IT SITTING OUT BACK IN HIS PASTURE. JOHN DEER MODEL NUMBER 3. AND IT'S PROBABLY 100 YEARS OLD? I WOULD SAY AROUND 1900 OR SO. WHEN I WAS A KID I HAD TO RUN A BILL RIG MOST OF THE TIME. I WANTED TO GO WATCH A MOVIE ONE TIME AND SO I GOT UP IN THE MORNING, WENT AND GOT TWO CENTS A BOTTLE, GOT HOME, TOLD DAD I GOT ENOUGH MONEY TO GO TO THAT MOVIE, HE SAID WELL, IF YOU GET THAT SCYTHE RAKED THE HILL YOU CAN GO HAVE IT. I HUGH DARN WELL I COULDN'T GET IT DONE. THEY DON'T MAKE THESE ANY MORE, THEY HAVEN'T MADE THEM FOR ABOUT 100 YEARS. ALL IT HAS AS A TRIP MECHANISM WHICH CAUSES THIS ROW OF TYNES AS CROSS THE BACK HERE, THAT ARE LIKE FINGERS THAT GO ALONG AND MILK THE HAY UP THAT'S LAYING ON THE GROUND, GATHER IT UP AND AS IT FILLS UP, WHEN IT GETS, WHAT DO YOU GOT, A FOOT LEVER, HIT IT WITH YOUR FOOT AND KICKS THIS LITTLE COG HERE AND IT COMES UP AND DUMPS THE HAY. THE HAY HAS BEEN MOWED, CURED, RAKED UP, NOW IT'S TIME TO PUT IT IN THE BARN, THAT'S THE HARDEST PART, FORKING THE HAY FROM THE GROUND INTO TUMBLES, THESE MOUNDS OF HEY THAT YOU SEE. AND THEN PUT ON THE WAGON AND THEN THEY PACK THE HAY DOWN. THEN IT'S OFF TO THE BARN AND FORK IT INTO THE HEY MOUND FOR FEEDING OUT NEXT WINTER. THAT'S A PIECE OF THE REAL NEW HAMPSHIRE. THAT'S MY NEW HAMPSHIRE. I'M STEVE TAYLOR, YOUR COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. |
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Every summer in New Hampshire there's a group of people who make history come alive. This year, Eleanor Roosevelt and F. Scott Fitzgerald are among several historical characters being portrayed by a talented group of actors. Last summer, Portsmouth played host to two very distinguished visitors from the past: Susan B. Anthony and Sojourner Truth. Chip Neal was there. |
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FROM THE BEGINNING. MY FATHER URGED ME TO FOLLOW MY OWN INSTINCTS. Reporter: ANNETTE BALD WIN PORTRAYED SUSAN B. ANTHONY,. FRIEND AND FELLOW CITIZENS, I STAND BEFORE YOU UNDER INDICTMENT FOR THE ALLEGED CRIME OF HAVING VOTED IN THE LAST PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WITHOUT HAVING THE LAWFUL RIGHT TO VOTE. I NOT ONLY COMMITTED NO CRIME, BUT SIMPLY EXERCISED MY RIGHT TO GUARANTEE TO ME AND ALL UNITED STATES CITIZENS BY THE NATIONAL CONSTITUTION WHICH IS BEYOND THE POWER OF ANY STATE TO DENY, IT WAS WE THE PEOPLE, NOT WE THE WHITE MALE CITIZENS. THIS TRAVELING TENT SHOW TRACES I ORIGINS TO THE VERY POPULAR RESORT IN UPSTATE NEW YORK. THEIR CULTURAL PROGRAMS BECAME SO POPULAR AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY THAT THEY TOOK THEM ON THE ROAD HAD TRAVELING TEND SHOWS AND THEY DID THAT UNTIL THE DEPRESSION IN THE 30s. AND EVEN THOUGH THE CHATAQUA RESORT SURVIVES TO THIS DAY, THE TRAVELING TENT SHOWS REMAINED DORMANT UNTIL 1976. IN NORTH DAKOTA A SCHOLAR WHO WAS LECTURING ON WILD BILL LANGER, A LOCAL POLITICIAN GOVERNOR, WAS INVITED TO SPEAK AS LANGER, HE SEEMED TO KNOW SO MUCH ABOUT HIM, AND THAT WAS THE ORIGIN OF IT. AND IT JUST GREW SUMMER BY SUMMER. AND NOW SOMEBODY HAS SAID THAT THE CHATAQUA TENT IS THE HUMANITY SUMMER HOME, A KIND OF TANGLEWOOD FOR THE HUMANITIES, AND IT TRAVELS ALL AROUND THE COUNTRY. HUMANITIES COUNSELS IN ABOUT HALF THE STATES SPONSOR. ALICE McGILL PORTRAYED SOJOURNER TRUTH, ACTIVE IN THE 1860S AND 70s. THE GOOD OLD WAY IS THE RIGHTEOUS WAY, I MEAN TO TAKE THE KINGDOM IN A GOOD OLD WAY. GLORY, GLORY, WOMAN WON'T YOU COME ALONG WITH ME. §, YOU KNOW, IT RAINED 40 DAYS, 40 NIGHTS NONSTOPPING, NO ONE GOT WORRIED BUT THE RAIN KEPT DROPPING. §. LISTEN HERE NOAH, THE RAIN GOING TO STOP, I WANT YOU TO LAND ON THE MOUNTAIN TOP. GLORY, GLORY, WHY DON'T YOU COME ALONG WITH ME §. WELL, CHILDREN, I'M SO GLAD TO SEE SO MANY OF YOU. \\ THE CHATAQUA CONCERT IS AN ENTERTAINING WAY TO BRING HISTORY TO THE PRESENT. AND ACTUALLY LET IT SPEAK TO OUR LIVES RIGHT NOW. WHEN WILL THE WOMEN OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INDEED LADIES AND GENTLEMEN THE WOMEN OF THIS NATION ENJOY COMPLETE POLITICAL EQUALITY? IT IS ONLY THIS MUCH JUSTICE THAT WE ARE ASKING FOR. YOU KNEW, OF COURSE, THAT WHEN IT WAS ANNOUNCED THAT SUSAN B. ANTHONY WOULD BE THIS EVENING'S SPEAKER THAT I WOULD NOT BE DISCUSSING THE PROPER DRAPING OF LACE CURTAINS. SHE BELIEVED THAT NO OTHER REFORM COULD POSSIBLY COME INTO EFFECT OR LAST UNLESS WOMEN WERE PARTICIPATING IN GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS. AND THE ONLY WAY THEY COULD PARTICIPATE IN GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS WAS BY THE VOTE. SO BECAUSE OF THAT, SHE WAS INDEFATIGABLE. NOW IT IS SAID, BY THOSE WHO OPPOSE US, THAT USE OF THE MASCULINE PRONOUNS, HE, HIS AND HIM IN ALL THE LAWS IS PROOF THAT ONLY MEN WERE MEANT TO BE INCLUDED IN THEM. NOW, IF YOU INSIST ON THIS VERSION OF THE LETTER OF THE LAW, WE INSIST YOU BE CONSISTENT. THERE IS NO SHE, HER, OR HERS IN ANY OF OUR TAX LAWS. \\ AND THIS IS EQUALLY TRUE OF ALL OUR CRIMINAL LAWS. WE BUILT THE CITIES, WE PLOWED THE FIELD, WE PROVIDE FOR A MULTITUDE, SO SOME OF THE DIVIDENDS MUST BE OUT. SOJOURNER TRUTH WAS ABOUT SIX FEET TALL. DURING HER PRIME SHE WEIGHED ABOUT 190 POUNDS. SHE WAS A WOMAN OF DEEP CONVICTIONS, BUT NOT UNTIL SHE FOUND OUT THAT SLAVERY, OR FREEDOM, WAS NOT A GIFT. THAT FREEDOM WAS A RIGHT. SO I SAY, GOD, MY MOTHER SAID IF I ASK YOU TO MAKE THE MASTER AND MRS. BE GOOD TO ME, YOU WOULD DO IT. WELL, I ASKED YOU. THEY DID GET GOOD. DID I THINK TO MYSELF, MAYBE HE CAN'T MAKE THEM GOOD, THEY'RE SO BAD. SO I SAID, WELL, IF YOU CAN'T MAKE THEM GOOD, IF YOU CAN'T MAKE THEM GOOD TO ME. KILL 'EM. \\ WHAT WOULD BE THE MOST IMPORTANT MESSAGE SHE WOULD WANT TO GIVE TO THOSE OF US LIVING HERE IN THE 21st CENTURY NOW? I WOULD THINK SHE WOULD ENCOURAGE PEOPLE NOT TO BE AS GREEDY. THAT SHE WOULD LOOK UPON OUR CHILDREN, AS A NATIONAL RESOURCE. FOR WE THE WHOLE PEOPLE WHO FORMED THIS UNION, WE FORMED IT'S NOT TO GIVE THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY BUT TO SECURE THEM. NOT TO THE HALF OF OURSELVES AND THE HALF OF OUR POSTERITY BUT TO THE WHOLE PEOPLE. THANK YOU. MY DOORS IS LOCKED, MY WINDOWS PINNED, GOD GOT THE KEY AND YOU CAN'T COME IN. GLORY GLORY, WON'T YOU COME ALONG WITH ME. |
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Thursday evening at 7, you can travel back in time to meet Eleanor Roosevelt. Friday Henry Ford and Amelia Earhart will take the stage at the Chataqua Tent at Keene State College. And next week, Chataqua is at Stawbery Banke in Portsmouth. |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 7/23/03 22:00 HOST: Allison McNair Length: 4:00 minutes In this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, the budget stalemate may be over. There was a meeting of minds at the statehouse today. We'll take you there. Plus we'll find out what Granite Staters think about their own budgets - when we talk to UNH Survey Center's Andy Smith about his latest poll. And later. living history through Chataqua. But first. Legislators from the House and Senate reached a tentative agreement with the Governor today over changes to the budget. Richard Ager has the story. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Richard Ager NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Craig Benson\NH Governor, Sen. Dick Green\Chair, Senate Finance Cmte, Sen. Robert Clegg\Senate Majority Leader, Sen. Tom Eaton\Senate President, Rep. Mike Whalley\Deputy Speaker |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 7/23/03 22:00 HOST: Allison McNair Length: 10:00 minutes In this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, the budget stalemate may be over. There was a meeting of minds at the statehouse today. We'll take you there. Plus we'll find out what Granite Staters think about their own budgets - when we talk to UNH Survey Center's Andy Smith about his latest poll. And later. living history through Chataqua. How do people in New Hampshire feel about their own budgets? Recently Andy Smith of the UNH Survey Center got some answers from his Granite State Poll. We went to his office to ask him about his findings. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Allison McNair, Jennifer Ellis NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Andy Smith \UNH Survey Center |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 7/23/03 22:00 HOST: Allison McNair Length: 10:00 minutes In this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, the budget stalemate may be over. There was a meeting of minds at the statehouse today. We'll take you there. Plus we'll find out what Granite Staters think about their own budgets - when we talk to UNH Survey Center's Andy Smith about his latest poll. And later. living history through Chataqua. How do people in New Hampshire feel about their own budgets? Recently Andy Smith of the UNH Survey Center got some answers from his Granite State Poll. We went to his office to ask him about his findings. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Allison McNair, Jennifer Ellis NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Andy Smith \UNH Survey Center |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 7/23/03 22:00 HOST: Allison McNair Length: 7:00 minutes In this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, the budget stalemate may be over. There was a meeting of minds at the statehouse today. We'll take you there. Plus we'll find out what Granite Staters think about their own budgets - when we talk to UNH Survey Center's Andy Smith about his latest poll. And later. living history through Chataqua. Every summer in New Hampshire there's a group of people who make history come alive. This year, Eleanor Roosevelt and F. Scott Fitzgerald are among several historical characters being portrayed by a talented group of actors. Last summer, Portsmouth played host to two very distinguished visitors from the past: Susan B. Anthony and Sojourner Truth. Chip Neal was there. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Chip Neal NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: George Frein\Dir, National Chautauqua Tour, Annette Baldwin Kolasinski\Historian/Actor, Alice McGill\Author/Storyteller |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 7/23/03 22:00 HOST: Allison McNair Length: 7:00 minutes In this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, the budget stalemate may be over. There was a meeting of minds at the statehouse today. We'll take you there. Plus we'll find out what Granite Staters think about their own budgets - when we talk to UNH Survey Center's Andy Smith about his latest poll. And later. living history through Chataqua. Every summer in New Hampshire there's a group of people who make history come alive. This year, Eleanor Roosevelt and F. Scott Fitzgerald are among several historical characters being portrayed by a talented group of actors. Last summer, Portsmouth played host to two very distinguished visitors from the past: Susan B. Anthony and Sojourner Truth. Chip Neal was there. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Chip Neal NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: George Frein\Dir, National Chautauqua Tour, Annette Baldwin Kolasinski\Historian/Actor, Alice McGill\Author/Storyteller |
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According to the New England Economic Project and other sources tracking New Hampshire's population and economy, more than half of the state's graduates leave every year seeking employment elsewhere. As a result, local businesses are finding themselves with fewer qualified CEOs, managers, and other employees. Intern Ashley Butterfield reports. |
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TRACK ONE Faced with the challenge of bringing fresh ideas and renewed vitality to the region, some businesses have put their money on a program called Exchange City. Executive Director Philip Ross. SOT - Philip Ross "We're going to do something about some of what is lacking and missing in the schools, we're going to teach real life skills in a real life setting and to deliver to our children what we, their parents and their educators, know they need." TRACK TWO Exchange City has sites in over twenty-five US communities. It's nationally accredited curriculum teaches skills like writing checks, taking out loans, and running a small business. It also provides real world gains and losses. SOT - Philip Ross "If Zachery Douglas's job resume and job application is filled with spelling and grammar mistakes he's not getting a C- grade, he's not getting the bank manager's job that he wants because it's the highest paying job in Exchange City. There's a consequence and that's part of what this program teaches. You don't earn the revenue your business expects. Making payroll, paying taxes, paying utility bills, paying back that bank loan might suddenly become a problem." TRACK THREE By the spring of 2003 the old Wentworth elementary school will be transformed. It will be a fully functioning metropolis where students will take on the jobs of police officers, CEOs, city clerks, and other real world occupations. They'll use checkbooks to buy goods and market their products to the rest of Exchange City. SOT - Mayor Evelyn Sirrell "I understand that more than 3,000 area fifth and sixth graders will pilot this program once it begins to operate later this year. And once this program is fully operational it will serve an estimated 15,000 school children each year. What a wonderful opportunity for our children to learn how to run their own city. They could well become tomorrow's city managers and mayors or our most successful businessmen and businesswomen." But even if they choose different paths no lesson they learn at Exchange City New England will certainly help them to become better citizens of every community and more knowledgeable about everyday economics." TRACK FOUR Lending their support at the groundbreaking were companies like Merrill Lynch and Wendy's and teachers from around the state. New Hampshire's first lady Denise Benson chose Exchange City as her first official volunteer effort. Local companies are providing the sole funding for this project. Investors hope that these junior entrepreneurs will get hooked on economics and apply their new talents right here in the granite state. For New Hampshire Outlook, I'm Ashley Butterfield. |