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Next on New Hampshire Outlook tonight. We continue to take an in depth look at the education funding issue by focusing on the pros and cons of a sales tax. Plus. in our conversation with Walpole filmmaker Ken Burns, he talks about the spark that created his new series on Jazz. |
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Good Evening. I'm Allison McNair. Welcome to New Hampshire Outlook. We begin tonight with a summary of today's state news. |
| Alciere Resigns Return to index of stories... |
This is the last day Nashua representative Tom Alciere will serve as a member of the New Hampshire Legislature. Alciere has been under fire since last week when his views advocating violence against police officers became public. There were numerous calls for his resignation throughout the State and the nation. In a brief letter to the Secretary of State, Alciere said his resignation is effective 11:59 tonight. |
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Senator Judd Gregg thinks George W. Bush might help ease the state's education funding crisis.The Republican senator says he's pleased the president elect supports government funding of up to 40 percent to cover special education costs. Right now, the government provides about 16 percent. Gregg said if the federal government chips in more, it will ease the burden on New Hampshire taxpayers. We'll continue our weeklong discussion of the education funding crisis in just a few minutes. |
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Tomorrow President Clinton returns to the state that helped propel him to the presidency. Mr. Clinton will speak at Dover High School in the morning - then attend a private reception in Manchester. From there, the president will travel to Boston to speak at Northeastern University. |
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A bitterly cold morning here in New Hampshire. What can we expect tomorrow? Just a bit earlier I spoke with Brian Post from the Mount Washington Observatory and asked about conditions there tonight. OUT: |
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Last month, we shared a story with you about a young Guatemalan girl named Katerin Gonzales. In November, she came to Exeter for corrective surgery on her leg and hip. Today, Katerin returned home. Before she left, we had a chance to follow-up on Katerin's story to see how she was doing. |
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Last year, Dr. Joshua Siegel took a trip to Guatemala -- he was there on a humanitarian mission. "We went down there to operate on some." Dr. Siegel is an orthopedic surgeon at Access Sports Medicine and Orthopedics in Exeter, NH. At the invitation of a Guatemalan born colleague, Dr. Luis Flores, he volunteered his services at a state run hospital in this Central American country. "The hospital was built 10 years ago but opened 5 years ago." Dr. Siegel, along with Dr. Flores and two nurses from Exeter spent ten days in Guatemala. They performed a variety of orthopaedic procedures -- some of which were seen for the first time by surgeons there. "It was a learning experience for all of us. We were." During his stay in Guatemala, Dr. Siegel met a six year old girl named Katerin Gonzales. She was suffering from a hip problem that doctors there, were unable to treat. "Once she walked in to the clinic, I knew there was something wrong other than her hip." Dr. Siegel arranged to bring Katerin and her mother Mercedes to the United States. In November, he and a medical team from Exeter Hospital repaired Katerin's hip. They also lengthened her left leg which was 12 centimeters shorter than the right. We met with them soon after the surgery. Doctor describes what he found and how he repaired the leg. That was Katerin six weeks ago. We met with her recently to see how she was doing. "The bone has grown 10 centimeters and that leaves about 2 cm remaining to be the same length as the other. She is doing very well. She is a very mature young girl who brings smiles to the faces of evryone around her." The pins and brace will remain on Katerin for another month. Doctors in Guatemala will then remove it and replace it with a cast. Perhaps by summertime, she'll be playing soccer. As for Dr. Seigel, he'll be traveling back to Guatemala in November where he'll continue his work of charity. She thanks him very much for all the work he has done. " I feel as though we have a responsibility to do these things." |
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This week's report from the New Hampshire Commission on Education Funding has generated discussion on how the state can pay for education. While there's still plenty to debate, the report serves as a catalyst to get the dialogue underway. This afternoon, top legislators, Governor Shaheen and representatives from the high technology community got together at a meeting today in Concord. The goal was to bring together the e-business community with legislators to outline the benifits that technology and growing e-commerce bring to the state. Many of the speakers focused their message on the opportunity before the state to lead the nation in technology AND education reform. |
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Tonight we continue our look at the specifics of the report with committee member Andy Leitz and joining us from the UNH Survey Center Andy Smith. |
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New Hampshire's retailers say a sales tax to pay for public schools would be devastating. Nancy Kyle, president of the Retail Merchants Association, responded today to a report released Monday by Governor Jeanne Shaheen's blue ribbon tax commission. Kyle says a sales tax would especially hurt businesses along the state's borders. |
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Thank you to our guests for join us, committee member Andy Leitz and from the UNH Survey Center Andy Smith. |
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cg:Education report and Analyses available on-line www.edufundingcommission.com |
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Tonight at 9 on New Hampshire Public Television, you can see part three of Ken Burn's film, "Jazz". Last night, in episode two, we were introduced to two of the genre's most influential artists - Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. Jazz filmmaker Ken Burns and I sat down at his home studios in Walpole, New Hampshire, where we talked about storytelling and improvisation. |
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Ally: Do you listen to jazz differently now? Ken: I, you know, I was a child of Rock & Roll and R & B. And my father played some jazz records growing up and I worked in record store in High School, so I was very familiar with all the jazz stuff. But it wasn't my music. But as I became a filmmaker, I began to use jazz more and more to bring alive certain eras in our past, no more so than in baseball when the central, pivotal episodes of the 20's, 30's, 40's, and 50's just burst alive using this music that I didn't know much about. And then we did an interview with a man named Gerald Early, a remarkable interview, for Baseball, and he said something that worked its way into the introduction of that film. He said, "When they study our civilization, 2000 yrs from now Americans will be known for only three things; the Constitution, Baseball and Jazz music." And I went, wait a second, I dealt with the constitution in the Civil War and other films, I'm doing baseball, I need to know about Jazz. Because what he was saying was that the genius of our country is improvisation. The constitution is just four pieces of paper written at the end of the 18th century that's able to adjudicate our most complicated problems in this the new 21st century. Baseball's a simple children's stick and ball game every culture has one. But in our's, its become mythic, like the Japanese No dramas where we invest our hopes and dreams and has infinite chess like combinations. And then at the heart of this music that we've invented, is this notion that I will play what I feel, not necessarily the notes on the page but what I feel, and I will make art out of the communication of who I am. Which is the American genius. We rearranged everyone's conceptions of how people could govern thereselves, we said in fact people could govern themselves, that was brand new. We have this great game that has been a good barometer of where we've been. And we have this music that reflects that joyous freedom in everything we do, so I think, people will come, its changed me, I now listen to nothing but jazz and its great, I love the other music, but it seems like uh, fast food its like going to the drive up window and we all need a burger and fries, don't get me wrong. But if you need that elegant sumptuous feast Jazz provides it. Ally: How do we entice young people to watch this? Is it a matter of enticing? Ken: I think that good storytelling is like a Trojan horse. You know, when you tell people say history or say documentaries its like for a lot of people, we have to admit, its like castor oil. Something that you know is good for you but is not good tasting, and so you tend to avoid it. And the same is true with history. But I think if you tell a story really well, its like a Trojan horse, you invite it and it takes over. And so, I've tried to tell good stories. This is not every important person in jazz; these are the representative, the symbolic, the signal people in jazz. We've chosen to focus on these people and to tell their stories well, rather than tell all the stories and tell none well and end up with the narrative drive of the Manhattan telephone book. O we've learned how to tell good stories over the years. It the story of the Civil War, the millions of people you get to know, and in Baseball and its here in jazz. So it doesn't really matter what the subject is. If I was a good enough filmmaker, I could do ten episodes on the history of the vacuum cleaner and make it interesting, I'm not that good a filmmaker. Ally: oh I don't know about that. Ken continues. So I've had to take a subject that almost tells itself like jazz, that's so exciting. And I have to just say, I made it for everybody, particularly young, who says, "Oh, I'm not into jazz." Because the stories that attend to jazz are as important in their own way as understanding what took place on the second day at the Battle of Gettysburg, or what took place, God forbid, in the sixth game of the 1975 World Series. Ally: What is it like to see that transformation in people? Ken: It's so great. I've just come off a couple of months on the road where I traveled all around the country, and shared this film to all white audiences, all black audiences, to city folk to country folk to mixed audiences to young to old and its so great to have the proof in the pudding. I couldn't show them the whole thing, but I could show several clips across the episodes and watch people change their sort of mindset about it. And I'm hoping, all I'm asking for is that people give it a chance and see the continuation of the magnificent tapestry that is American history that's woven into our own hearts and souls, that is there in the Civil War, its there in Baseball, its there in jazz music. And I think it will reward study. |
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. You can see Episode 3 here on New Hampshire Public Television tonight at 9. Jazz A Film By Ken Burns Episode 3: "Our Language" 1924 - 1929 January 10, 2001, 9:00 P.M. Here on NHPTV |
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Tomorrow on New Hampshire Outlook - President Clinton comes to the Granite state on his farewell tour. Plus, Jazz filmmaker Ken Burns explains why he always comes home to New Hampshire. |
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That's it for this edition of New Hampshire Outlook. For all of us here at New Hampshire Public Television, thanks for joining us. Stay tuned for NOVA. We'll be back tomorrow at 7:30. Good night. |
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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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Tonight there's a new plan to make New Hampshire's air cleaner. The governor says she has bipartispan support to implement a New Hampshire Clean Power Strategy. The plan calls for the state's three fossil-fuel power plants in Bow, Newington and Portsmouth to reduce sulfur dioxide, mercury and carbon dioxide emissions within five years. |
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People with disabilities and without work might have a better shot at finding jobs. New Hampshire is getting a half million dollar grant to help remove the barriers to employing the disabled. According to the head of Health and Human Services, there will be extra help provided such as transportation. |
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Just how does the New Econonmy benefit New Hampshire? That was the topic among legislators, Governor Shaheen and representatives from the high technology community at a meeting today in Concord. The focus - bringing together the e-business community with legislators to outline the benifits that technology and growing e-commerce bring to the state. |
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A University of New Hampshire program to find capital for small businesses has raised big money. The Small Business Administration says the Access to Capital Electronic Network has helped raise about one billion dollars. It was launched five years ago and has operations in 45 states; Washington, D.C.; and Puerto Rico. The program director says the network is geared toward helping businesses that need less than about five million dollars, but more than 250 thousand dollars to start a new company or to get into manufacturing. |
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A new trend could be emerging on wall street. Some analysts say investors are developing a pattern of selling stocks as soon as they show a profit or unloading those that even hint at problems. Today, bargain hunters prevailed. The dow closed up 32 points. The Nasdaq climbed 83 points. Here's a look at some of the stocks of interest in New Hampshire today. |
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Some federal funds are on the way to Veterans Affairs hospitals in the Northeast. The extra 54 million dollars is aimed at keeping the hospitals out of debt. New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg says even though they have been streamlining and cutting costs, the V-A hospitals have been drained by rising health care costs and the need to provide more services. |
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A committee that's been reviewing the way New Hampshire disciplines judges releases recommendations today. The group looked into the Supreme Court's Judicial Conduct Committee. The court set up the review to decide if the conduct committee should be independent, and not a part of the court. One of the central concerns raised at a public meeting was the committee's practice of keeping complaints about judges and the decision-making process secret. |
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Tonight on New Hampshire Outlook. President Clinton comes to the Granite state on his farewell tour. Plus, Jazz filmmaker Ken Burns explains why he always comes home to New Hampshire. Join us tonight at 7:30 only on New Hampshire Outlook. |