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NH GIVES: If you don’t support your local news outlet, it will go away

Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Across New Hampshire, local journalists are doing vital work: covering town budgets, investigating the housing crisis, following school board decisions, and highlighting the people and programs that are quietly strengthening our communities. These are the stories that don’t always make national headlines—but they’re the ones that shape our lives the most.

Submit your questions: Local media partners join forces to hold candidate forums for NH voters

Saturday, August 10, 2024Saturday, August 10, 2024

Conversations with the candidates will likely touch on the economy, health care, education, climate change, immigration and foreign policy. New Hampshire voters are also encouraged to submit their questions for the candidates in advance.

Take the survey: Granite State News Collaborative launches ‘Know Your Vote’ to empower young voters ahead of 2024 elections

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

900 Bills for ’24: A look at some of the bills requested for 2024 state legislative session

Saturday, June 15, 2024Monday, October 30, 2023

New Hampshire legislators have requested more than 900 bills for 2024, covering everything from abortion rights to daylight savings time. What are their priorities for the upcoming year? Melanie Plenda talks with Anna Brown, research and analysis director of the nonprofit, nonpartisan Citizens Count, about what’s going on in the state Legislature and what bills might be discussed this session.

NH news outlets to collaborate for series of presidential primary forums

Saturday, June 15, 2024Monday, October 16, 2023

Each forum will be co-hosted by a rotating pair of journalists from newsrooms across New Hampshire including the Concord Monitor, Keene Sentinel, New Hampshire Public Radio, New Hampshire Business Review, New Hampshire Bulletin, NHPBS, Citizens Count and other news outlets.

Multiple solar eclipses coming up: What is a solar eclipse, how to safely observe and where

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Monday, October 9, 2023

Even with the advancement of science, space has always been a fascination for many humans and this fall and spring residents of New Hampshire will get an opportunity to experience two solar eclipses – a partial solcar eclipse Oct. 14 and a total eclipse on April 8, 2024.

603 Legal Aid podcast, Episode 1: Unlawful landlords and what tenants can do to protect themselves

Monday, June 10, 2024Tuesday, August 22, 2023

The State We’re In: Book Ban or Local Control?

Monday, June 10, 2024Friday, March 10, 2023

State Rep looks to exempt K-12 from obscenity laws, opponents say it will lead to book banning.

The State We’re In: Drawing the Line – a conversation about redistricting

Monday, June 10, 2024Sunday, May 29, 2022

The State We’re In host Melanie Plenda, director of Research and Analysis for Citizens Count and host of the podcast “$100 Plus Mileage” Anna Brown, Assistant Professor at Plymouth State University Dr. John Lappie, Republican state Rep. Ross Berry representing south Manchester and Litchfield, and Democrat state Rep. Marjorie Smith representing Durham, discuss Congressional redistricting, what the competing proposals are and what it means for New Hampshire.

The State We’re In: Addressing School Violence

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Saturday, April 16, 2022

Even before the pandemic, schools struggled with eruptions of violence. As the pandemic wanes, those eruptions seem even more frequent. What’s going on in schools and what can be done to help? School psychologist and consultant Dr. Nate Jones joins The State We’re In host Melanie Plenda to discuss the issues.

State of the State address in review: What Sununu talked about and what it all means

Sunday, June 16, 2024Sunday, February 20, 2022

The economy, courts, coronavirus, criminal justice and more: What is the state of the state of New Hampshire in 2022?

Once and Future (Kid) Governors: A Q&A with Charlie Olsen and Charlotte Cotti

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Sunday, January 23, 2022

Led by New Hampshire Civics and the New Hampshire Institute of Politics here in the Granite State, the program gives fifth-graders first-hand experience with government — through campaigning, elections, and voting.

Advice for parents of children with elevated blood lead levels

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Monday, December 13, 2021

Experts say a number of things may help – and the solutions are not always medical.

The State We’re In: On funding local journalism and reconnecting news with community

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Sunday, December 5, 2021

To discuss what’s happening in New Hampshire newsrooms we have Phil Kincade, the executive director of the New Hampshire Press Association, as well as Steve Leone, publisher for the Concord Monitor and vice president for news for the Monitor’s parent company, Newspapers of New England.

The State We’re In: Understanding cybersecurity in business, goverment and our everyday lives

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Sunday, October 31, 2021

“This really is a human privacy problem.” – Jason Sgro

Teachers needed for online, candid discussion on NH education

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Thursday, October 14, 2021

Teachers and other classroom educators are invited to participate in a private Facebook group to share their perspectives.

The State We’re In: NH Labor Shortage and how the ‘I Build New Hampshire’ initiative could help

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Friday, October 1, 2021

Wherever you go in New Hampshire, you see “help wanted” signs dotting the windows. One of the sectors hit hard by the continuing labor shortage is construction. A new education initiative called “I Build New Hampshire” is trying to encourage more people to explore careers in the trades. Joshua Reap and Jennifer Landon from the Associated Builders and Contractors of New Hampshire and Vermont (ABC NH/VT) discuss the goals of the project.

The Variant strikes back: Q&A with Dartmouth-Hitchcock specialist Dr. Jose Mercado

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Sunday, August 8, 2021

COVID-19 cases are rising again in New Hampshire, and hospitals are seeing a surge of new COVID patients. With the new Delta variant’s increased rate of spread and about one-third of Granite Staters unvaccinated, masks are starting to make a return as well. With all the latest COVID-19 news and information, it can be difficult to stay up to date. Dr. Jose Mercado, Infectious Disease Specialist at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, joins The State We’re In host Melanie Plenda to answer your frequently asked questions.

Granite State News Collaborative partners talk about statewide series on Race and Equity in NH

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Sunday, April 18, 2021

The Granite State News Collaborative has launched a new multi-year project exploring race and equity in New Hampshire. To dig deeper into the project and thinking behind it, we talk to several partner organizations participating in the project as well as the GSNC’s new Engagement Reporter

NHPBS The State We’re In: Covering COVID – One Year Later

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Sunday, March 14, 2021

It’s been one year since the COVID-19 pandemic changed life as we know it. Along with many others, New Hampshire journalists have been on the frontlines covering COVID.

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