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The Governor’s comments come as lawmakers mull a billion dollar school funding plan, and revenue officials predict a state budget gap that could top 170 million dollars by mid-2009.

Attorneys for Michael Addison are going to court Thursday.

Addison’s been charged with the 2006 murder of Manchester police officer Michael Briggs. And the state is pursuing the death penalty.

But when his lawyers stand before the judge, they’re going to argue that their client can’t get a fair trial in this state. And they are asking the court to dismiss the indictment.

NHPR Correspondent Ellen Grimm reports from Manchester.

The news has been filled with apologies: former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer on his involvement with a prostitute, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for statements made by supporters, and, amidst this week’s 40th anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King, John McCain’s mea culpa for originally opposing a national holiday for the civil rights leader. We talk with the author of a new book exploring the complexity, diversity and execution of the simple apology.

Guest

• Nick Smith, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Hampshire and author of I Was Wrong: The Meanings of Apologies