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John Dean and David Sirota talk with Ian Masters on the night of the 2008 New Hampshire primaries.

New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College

Dear Subscribers: Be sure to check out the new America’s Business vodcast at www.americasbusiness.org…This Week, America’s Business, a rash of product recalls made toy safety a big issue in the news as this year’s holiday shopping season approached. The recalls also prompted Congress to consider strengthening the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, the agency charged with ensuring products sold in stores don’t hurt consumers and vulnerable children. This week on “America’s Business with Mike Hambrick” Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) will report on the status of legislation to increase funding and enact reforms at the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Dingell is chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which is working on the Consumer Product Safety Modernization Act. “America’s Business” will explore another issue important to manufacturing – opening new markets abroad through trade agreements. U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab will join Mike to talk about the recently approved Peru trade pact and other initiatives. Although World Trade Organization members weren’t able to finish the Doha round to further open global markets, 2007 was still a banner year for U.S. trade, Schwab says. “Anticipating equally busy and productive 2008,” she says. And Rep. Mike Conaway (R-TX), co-chairman of the Reliable Energy Caucus, will share his views on how energy legislation is shaping up in Congress. On a lighter note “America’s Business” will take a look at popular gifts this holiday season. A Sony official will review some of that company’s hottest-selling electronic gadgets. Then “America’s Business” will go low-tech when it visits Whittle Shortline Railroad, a Missouri company that makes traditional wooden toys. In our regular segments, Renee Giachino of America Justice Partnership gives us the heroes and villains of tort reform battles while the National Association of Manufacturers Hank Cox recalls the “The Way It Was.” And the NAM Manufacturers President John Engler gives us “The Last Word” when he delivers a holiday message.

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On Oct. 3, 2007 the Association of Alumni of Dartmouth filed a lawsuit against the College in an attempt to prevent Dartmouth from moving forward with the expansion of the College’s Board of Trustees. In this podcast, Dartmouth General Counsel Robert Donin explains the legal processes and describes the different documents that have been filed in Grafton County Superior Court.

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Poet, novelist, critic, and journal editor John Kinsella reads for the Hammer Museum. Recorded October 2, 2007.

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Annelise Orleck, Professor of History, is the author of several books including Common Sense and a Little Fire: Working Class Women’s Politics in the United States and Storming Caesar’s Palace which explores the story of a group of Las Vegas hotel maids and welfare mothers who challenged the system that kept them trapped in poverty. Much of Orleck’s focuses on class and poverty, and in this installment of Views from the Green, she talks to Genevieve Haas about the 43-year-old legislation known as the War on Poverty and its present day implications.

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