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At a meeting of the state's community technical college trustees, the focus was on the problems with student financial aid. The technical college system has struggled with flawed management of the 20 million dollar program for many years. The trustees were responding to recent news that the system has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on consultants to keep the financial aid program running. --an expense that caught lawmakers by surprise.

The NH Community Technical College System has been paying consultants hundreds of thousands of dollars to fix its ailing financial aid system. Whether the investment has paid off remains an open question. What is certain, however, is that neither the Executive Council nor the Legislature was aware the system was spending so much money to deal with its problems.

Bills on child sexual predators, the school “drop out” age, and use of deadly force topped a long list of legislation, that was voted on, passed, rejected or tabled for now. Today on the Exchange, we’ll look at the victories, the defeats, the surprises of New Hampshire's 2006 legislative season, and how the first half of the year might affect the second half with campaigning this summer and elections in the fall. Laura's guests are Colin Manning, Statehouse Reporter for Foster's Daily Democrat and Laconia Citizen. James Pindell, Managing Editor for PoliticsNH.com and Kevin Landrigan, Political Reporter for the Nashua Telegram. We'll also be joined by Jeff Feingold, Editor for the New Hampshire Business Review and Barbara Tetreault, Reporter for the Berlin Daily Sun.