This is kind of a show about automated savings and how it can help your financial future. But it's really about stress. The stress of decisions.  The stress of making a budget and sticking to it. The stress of multitasking. Host Matt Robison and Mike Morton of Morton Financial Advice focus in on how one simple action can make your day to day, week to week life easier, and also make you way better off in the future.  Photo by Elisa Ventur on Unsplash ..read more

You can easily find yourself swimming in accounts between old jobs  (401k, 403b and 457), individual accounts (IRAs and bank accounts) and then double that from your partner as well. It’s enough to throw up your hands, put your head in the sand and just forget about it. So how many accounts is too many?  And if you have too many--what should you do?  Financial planner Mike Morton (https://www.mortonfinancialadvice.com) has the answers ..read more

Paul interviews Democratic leader Carlos Cardona of Laconia. A rising star in New Hampshire Politics, Cardona talks about growing up in a poor village in Puerto Rico without electricity or running water. After moving to New Hampshire and graduating from Laconia High School, Cardona has devoted himself to political action. As a gay Latino, Cardona has been a powerful advocate for fairness, equity and justice, facing down white supremacists and breaking through political prejudice. He believes the New Hampshire Democratic Party has changed, expanding and accepting a new generation of leaders rea ..read more

Paul speaks with Betty Lent, the Director of the Concord Community Player's show "Murder on the Orient Express". The show is the kickoff for the Community Player's 95th anniversary season. In a highly regarded adaptation by Tony Award winning playwright Ken Ludwig. Agatha Christie's 1934 novel comes to the stage with a glamorous international cast. Murder, mystery, intrigue, wit and humor abound in this whodunit as Hercule Poirot, Belgium's gift to the word of great detectives must discover who murdered an American tycoon inside his train compartment locked from the inside! Performance details ..read more

A listener asks ”What apps or tech do you use to help manage your finances?” So in part 1 of this two-part show, Mike Morton and Matt Robison talk about: Why it’s important to build awareness about your expenses, easy apps for budgeting and other household spending needs, and the easy hack for setting savings and spending levels.  ..read more

Paul speaks with Rob Werner, NH state director for the League if Conservation voters. In a wide ranging discussion, they cover the recent election cycle's lack of focus on climate change despite recent landmark federal climate change legislation representing  historic investments in the nation's infrastructure and green economy. They talk about prospects for NH to join its neighbors progressive climate change agendas. Rob recently returned from the annual COP27 UN climate conference in Egypt and they discuss "the good, the bad and the ugly" in the global effort to deal with our fast warmi ..read more

Paul and Peggo reprise the second of their Holiday  Specials for Paul's last Capitol Close Up broadcast. It's time for change and transition in 2023. Peggo has conducted Songweavers, the women's Community Chorus at the Concord Community Music School for 11 years. On January 24, the Songweavers will have an open sing for folks to sign up. Songweavers is a folk ensemble, no reading music necessary.  All songs are learned by ear. Today's show features songs written by  Peggo and Paul around the theme of "Joy".  We're wishing you a Joyful  New year for 2023 ..read more

Paul speaks with Karen Braz, award-winning director of the Concord Community Players' production of The Wind in The Willows. They cover Karen's remarkable career in theater and as an American Sign Language interpreter and talk about the show, a new adaptation for young performers based on the 2017 West End production. This show marks the kick off of the Community Players 95th season, and harkens back to the very first Concord Children's Theater Project inaugural show 27 years ago. Performance details: Friday, October 14 at 7:00 pm Saturday, October 15 at 2:00 pm Performance at Concord City Aud ..read more

Paul Speaks with New Hampshire State Representative Mel Myler who is running for re-election in Merrimack County District 9 encompassing Hopkinton and Bow about the peril to our democracy. Representative Myler is the ranking member and past chair of the NH House education committee with a cat bird seat to the controversial policies of New Hampshire's libertarian leaning commissioner of education, Frank Edelblut and Governor Sununu, who support diverting public funds for private education. Myler speaks frankly about a New Hampshire Republican party now held hostage by free-staters whose extreme ..read more

NBA superfan and analytics nerd Matt Robison joins legendary radio host and sportscasting icon Ken Cail on Cail and Company to break down the Celtics and the NBA season.  ..read more