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Deadbeat Parents

By Laura Knoy on Wednesday, August 8, 2001.

You've probably seen the posters: "WANTED! New Hampshire's Non-Supporting Parents!" They display photos of offenders, but offer little insight into who these people are, who they've left behind, and what went wrong in the first place. We'll take a closer look at problems caused by New Hampshire's deadbeat parents and what to do about them. Laura's guests are State Representative David Bickford of New Durham and Valerie Harvey, Assistant Director of NH Kids.

A Lifetime Singing the Blues

By John Walters on Wednesday, August 8, 2001.

T.J. Wheeler has been playing the blues since he was a teenager. But he does more than play and sing- he also does blues education in schools, communities and prisons. He helped create the Black Heritage Trail in Portsmouth and he organizes the annual Portsmouth Blues Festival. To find our more, go to www.bluesbankcollective.org

New Century - New Water Law

By Dan Gorenstein on Wednesday, August 8, 2001.

Water is a finite resource. But it?s hard to remember that when you water your lawn or fill up your pool. Water shortages have been a fact of life for centuries in the Western United States. Now Easterners are beginning to feel the pinch. NHPR?s Dan Gorenstein reports.

Cabletron Reinvents Itself

By David Darman on Wednesday, August 8, 2001.

Cabletron was once New Hampshire's largest private employer and a symbol of the success of high technology in the state. But the company fell on hard times in the late 1990's, and was forced to reorganize. This week the Cabletron name ceased to exist, and the company began a new life as three smaller enterprises: Enterasys Networks, Riverstone Networks and Aprisma Management Technologies. Senior analyst Joel Conover tracks high-tech companies, and particularly Enterasys, for current analysis, for a research firm based in Sterling, Virginia. Conover told NHPR's David Darman Cabletron realized it had gotten too big for its own good.