Story Archives of 'Elections'

Officials in Bethlehem, Thursday, plan to hold a recount of last week’s election of a selectman and the passage of a warrant article.
Recounts are not rare in town elections, but in this case, it’s evidence of the ongoing divide in town.
On one side are those who oppose the Casella Landfill, and on the other are those who support it.
This year, though, the landfill’s operators actively campaigned and spent thousands of dollars to sway voters.
And landfill critics are crying foul.
New Hampshire Public Radio’s Amy Quinton reports.

The former GOP congressman will seek the 2nd district seat he held from 1995 to 2007. He says reining in spending, debt and democrats are his top priorities.

A major US Supreme Court decision earlier this month reversed two decades of legal precedent and relaxed restrictions on how corporations can get involved in political campaigns. We’ll look at this decision, what it means and how it may affect the country’s political landscape and New Hampshire's elections.

Guests

• Dan Weeks, president of Americans for Campaign Reform
• John Samples, director of the Center for Representative Government at the Cato Institute in Washington, DC

The nation’s eyes turn to Massachusetts today, where voters have chosen Republican Scott Brown to fill the Senate seat once held by Ted Kennedy. We’ll look back at this campaign and ask how a race that was once a slam dunk for Democrats could turn into an upset for Republicans and potentially block President Obama’s agenda.

Guests

• Paul Watanabe, professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts and a longtime observer of Bay State politics
• Fred Thys, political reporter for WBUR in Boston

It wasn’t a presidential year or even a congressional midterm, but several races in New England and across the nation have been making headlines. There’s the mayoral races in Manchester, Boston, and New York City, tax cap proposals in Maine and Manchester, special elections in Concord and upstate New York, gubernatorial contests in Virginia and New Jersey, and a ballot initiative in Maine that would repeal same-sex marriage. We’ll get all the results and see what – if anything - they tell us about Americans’ political mood.

Guests

• Dean Spiliotes, New Hampshire political scientist and author of NHpoliticalcapital.com
• James Pindell, longtime New Hampshire political reporter and author of the political news website NHPoliticalReport.com

We'll also hear from

• Mal Leary, reporter and editor for Capitol News Service in Augusta, Maine