$100 Plus Mileage

$100 Plus Mileage is a guide to New Hampshire's citizen legislature. It starts from the premise that many consequential bills never become headline politics. The show pays attention anyway. Anna Brown and Mike Dunbar from Citizens Count work through proposals, public testimony, amendments, committee votes, and the points where residents can still participate. The result is local civics with a paper trail. The episodes in this digest range from AI limits in mental health practice to municipal agreements around homelessness services, from online testimony data to campaign spending in state representative races. There is also room for the less obvious machinery of state policy. Timber grades matter. Data center energy rules matter. Landfill permit fights, handwritten campaign finance reports, and testimony portals matter too. The show is strongest when it turns bureaucratic details into a readable map of interests, constraints, and possible consequences. It does not need national drama to make the stakes clear. A bill number can lead to questions about access to substance misuse treatment, privacy, professional licensing, public input, off-grid energy, or who has the resources to influence a race. The register is clear, civic, and lightly conversational. The jokes are local and quick. A discussion of data centers can veer into ski hills, zombie shelters, and fugitive parrots, then return to how someone can contact a representative or follow a hearing. That looseness gives the policy work some oxygen. It also marks the show as distinctly New Hampshire: practical, slightly odd, and attentive to government by proximity. The named institutions are part of the texture, including Citizens Count, Franklin Pierce University, and the Granite State News Collaborative. The show is not general political punditry. It is closer to a guided walk through statehouse paperwork, with enough context to make the paperwork matter. It suits listeners who want to know what their government is doing before a bill becomes a fight everyone recognizes.