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Article: N.H. would benefit by working with the rest of New England.(New Hampshire)(Column)
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- New Hampshire Business Review
- Article date:
- January 5, 2007
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In October, I served as host to Neal Peirce, a syndicated columnist with the Washington Post Writers Group.
Neal is affiliated with Citistates Group. He and Curtis Johnson spent three years working on the New England Futures Project. They spent extensive time visiting and interviewing over 400 people in the New England states. They wrote a series of articles on each state, focusing on education, energy, growth and sprawl, health and connections (transportation and broadband). The general theme was New England--New Century, New Game.
Their premise was (and is) that the six states were spinning their wheels competing with one another. New Hampshire prides ...