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As part of NHPR's regional news round-up, John Walters talks to Keene Sentinel editor Tom Kearney about Keene's proposed highway by-pass, brown fields, homeless shelters and a NH income tax.

The state has lowered the acceptable level of arsenice in drinking water from 50 parts per billion (ppb)to 10 ppb. For more information, see Drinking Water Safety Guide.

A new grassroots adoption rights organization is pushing for NH to change its law to completely open all adoption records. We'll discuss the pros and cons of opening up the system. Laura talks with Judge John Maher from Rockingham County Probate Court and Donna Chagnon, President of the NH Open Adoption records Coalition.

How you conduct yourself out to dinner with your boss, or with those email jokes you forward can reverberate further than you think. Find out how to avoid professional faux pas, and make your work environment a more 'civil' society. Laura's guest is Jodi Smith, founder of Mannersmith, a Boston-based etiquette consulting service. This is a broadcast of an earlier program.

Thomas Moore. His new book is "Original Self". Moore questions American's obsession with conformity and "fitting in". He says we lose too much of our uniqueness, sometimes to the detriment of our physical and mental health. Laura Knoy is host.