Kayla Hewitt is a young mother of four who made the decision to run for the NH State House after she started following school board meetings in her town of Wolfeboro. She is running as an independent in this race. Kayla talks about school education, reproductive rights, and book bans.

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Bill Marsh, a retired ophthalmologist and former state representative, discusses his decision to run for Senate and his experiences in politics. He highlights his accomplishments in passing bipartisan bills, particularly in healthcare, during his time in the House. '

Marsh also explains his decision to switch party affiliation from Republican to Democrat, citing disagreements with the Republican Party's COVID policies. '

He discusses various issues, including educational freedom accounts, landfills, gas station regulations, cannabis legalization, and optometrists performing eye surgeries. Marsh expresses concerns about public health, access to healthcare, and the need for thoughtful legislation.

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Effingham has a bad gas problem in the struggle over whether to enable a gas station to be built on a site that is ecologically unsound.

David Smith, the co-founder of the Ossipee Lake Alliance; Tara Schroeder of the Green Mountain Conservation Group; and Bob Newton, a Professor Emeritus from Smith College and a groundwater technology expert, join Digging In to discuss the effort to build a gas station in Effingham.

Attempts to build the gas station on this site have been a long saga, with building commencing prior to obtaining the necessary permits and challenges to building the gas station on what many argue will cause serious environmental harm.

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