Gregg exit would leave NH delegation least senior

Commerce Secretary-nominee Judd Gregg’s departure from the Senate would leave New Hampshire with the nation’s least senior congressional delegation, but political experts disagree on whether that will hurt the state.
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Unemployment Claims Pose Challenges

Vermont Labor Commissioner Patricia Moulton Powden discusses the pressures mounting layoffs have placed on Vermont’s unemployment compensation system. And Valley News reporter John Gregg tells us how the Upper Valley economy is starting feel the economic affects at Dartmouth College and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

Record number of students apply to Dartmouth

More students than ever applied to Dartmouth College this year. Dartmouth says more than 16,000 students applied to attend Dartmouth next fall. The school is sending admission letters to just over 2,000 of them and expects about half of that number will become the class of 2012.

Analysis of the Vermont primaries with Dartmouth’s Linda Fowler

Vermont bucked the Hillary Clinton trend yesterday, propelling Illinois Senator Barack Obama to victory in the Democratic Primary, while Ohio, Texas, and Rhode Island went for the New York Senator and former First Lady. Dartmouth College Political Science Professor Linda Fowler says she’s not surprised that Obama won in Vermont, but she says it is notable that he won by such a wide margin.