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Do Granite Staters give the cold shoulder?

Fred Palumbo, World Telegram staff photographer - Library of Congress. New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection
Noted New Hampshirite Robert Frost famously said "Good fences make good neighbors." Is that friendly?

All this summer, NHPR is bringing you some cool stories to help you get through the hottest time of the year. Today, we approach the idea of "cool" from a different angle.

New Englanders have long had a reputation for being frosty. Chilly. Cool to outsiders.

So we sent NHPR's Kate Dario into the field to ask Granite Staters if we do really give people the cold shoulder?

Click on the Listen button above to hear the story.

(This audio postcard features the voices of Edna Feighner, Brian Young, Irvin Virola, Andrew Manseau, Luca Damien, Neeraj Naik, Travis Fuller, Brenda Schaefer, and Tom Talbott.)

As a general assignment reporter, I cover a little bit of everything. I’ve interviewed senators and second graders alike. I particularly enjoy reporting on stories that exist at the intersection of more narrowly defined beats, such as the health impact on children of changing school meals policies, or how regulatory changes at the Public Utilities Commissions affect older people on fixed incomes.

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SOMOS CONNECTICUT es una iniciativa de Connecticut Public, la emisora local de NPR y PBS del estado, que busca elevar nuestras historias latinas y expandir programación que alza y informa nuestras comunidades latinas locales. Visita CTPublic.org/latino para más reportajes y recursos. Para noticias, suscríbase a nuestro boletín informativo en ctpublic.org/newsletters.

Federal funding is gone.

Congress has eliminated all funding for public media.

That means $2.1 million per year that Connecticut Public relied on to deliver you news, information, and entertainment programs you enjoyed is gone.

The future of public media is in your hands.

All donations are appreciated, but we ask in this moment you consider starting a monthly gift as a Sustainer to help replace what’s been lost.

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