AGENDA 2012- Two week series looks at New Hampshire’s top election issues

(MANCHESTER, NH) WGIR AM 610 and 96.7 The Wave, New Hampshire’s News Radio, are partnering with the Josiah Bartlett Center, New Hampshire’s leading think tank, to produce AGENDA 2012, a two-week series investigating the top state issues facing New Hampshire voters this fall.

Starting Tuesday, August 14th, AGENDA 2012 will air each weekday morning in the Paul Westcott Show. New Hampshire Watchdog’s Grant Bosse will examine the policy questions surrounding such thorny issues as the economy, the New Hampshire budget, education, transportation, and energy, tapping the expertise of the Josiah Bartlett Center’s policy analysts. Bosse will also join Westcott in the WGIR studios to discuss the political ramifications of these policy debates.

In the first installment of our AGENDA 2012 series, Grant Bosse reports on how candidates are promising to bring jobs to New Hampshire.

In the second installment of WGIR and NH Watchdog’s joint series AGENDA 2012, reporter Grant Bosse examines taxes and spending, and how the debate over the New Hampshire budget will impact New Hampshire voters.

Grant Bosse looks at the long term problems facing the New Hampshire Retirement System, and the political battle to determine who will pay the $4.2 billion unfunded liability as we continue WGIR and NH Watchdog’s two-week series, AGENDA 2012.

Reporter Grant Bosse looks at how New Hampshire pays for its roads, and whether taxpayers will build a commuter rail line in this installment of WGIR and NH Watchdog’s AGENDA 2012 series.

The federal health care debate will shape the political debate in every state this fall. Reporter Grant Bosse looks at some of the major state issues in health care as we continue WGIR and NH Watchdog’s series AGENDA 2012.

Grant Bosse looks at changes in education policy that candidates are considering in this installment of WGIR and NH Watchdog’s two-week series, AGENDA 2012.

Energy is on the minds of New Hampshire voters every time they pay their electric bill. Reporter Grant Bosse looks at some of the state policies that could raise or lower those bills as we continue WGIR and NH Watchdog’s series Agenda 2012.

Hot button social issues may seem less prominent on AGENDA 2012, but reporter Grant Bosse explains why issues like abortion, marriage, and guns are still important to candidates and voters in this installment of WGIR and NH Watchdog’s AGENDA 2012 series.

Should New Hampshire give its Governor more power over the state bureaucracy? That’s a central question on AGENDA 2012. Reporter Grant Bosse wraps up WGIR and NH Watchdog’s two-week investigation of the top state issues in New Hampshire this year, AGENDA 2012.