Roger Wood: Recent Episodes
Roger Wood
It’s being called The Great Resignation. People who were either furloughed or fired, or perhaps working remotely from their homes.
Nearly 4.3 million Americans quit their jobs in August as many people sought out higher wages amid the recovery from the pandemic, opted for lifestyle changes, or lacked affordable childcare.
Associate publisher Roger Wood speaks with Greg Randolph, an economics professor at the University of Southern New Hampshire in Manchester.
How has the deadly Covid virus affected how we treat each other? And are there ways to help those who instigate sexual violence and domestic abuse? Dr. Scott Hampton, a psychologist based in Dover has offered expert testimony on such matters in criminal trial court. His organization, endingtheviolence.us helps those who have committed or threatened harm to others. For every victim, there is a perpetrator. Roger Wood talks to him about ending the violence in his latest podcast.
Podcast on the mighty Merrimack River, threatened with pollution. It runs from Central New Hampshire to the sea in Massachusetts
Widely quoted Kathy Phelps, attorney, who has prosecuted numerous Ponzi fraud schemes, talks about avoiding fraudulent schemes
Podcast with Sindiso Weeks, UMASS professor on the issue of teaching critical race theory.
New Hampshire’s Great Bay, located in the Seacoast region, is beautiful and pristine. The towns and cities around it want to keep it that way. So do the state and federal governments. A recent agreement to work together to reduce pollutants like nitrogen is designed to protect this estuary. Roger Wood in his latest podcast talks via Zoom with Blaine Cox, John Coon and Melissa Paly, representing major stakeholders in this effort.
Podcast interview with Will Stewart executive director of the organization that promotes NH as a desirable place to work and live.
7 miles off New Hampshire‘s diminutive but welcoming and sparkling shoreline, Lie the isles of shoals, a small grouping of islands, really spits of land exist. Most are uninhabitable, but two of them, AppleDore and Star Island, Have been the homes of fishermen in the past, and now host visitors, Mainly scientists and college students at Appledore, and families and conference gatherings at Star. You can see the sparkling oceanic house from the shoreline, especially at night, as twinkling lights offshore. Those lights were dimmed last summer because of the pandemic. But in a short time, Joe Watts, chief executive officer of the star island corporation nonprofit, will reopen the sprawling structure to the public once again. Roger Wood, in his latest podcast, caught up with Joe Watts To talk about his long-standing history with the building and his hopes for a rejuvenation this year.
Its founder says the Franklin NH whitewater river surfing site is the first in New England.