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A new poll finds that housing continues to outpace the cost of living on the list of biggest problems facing the state. The poll results from the University of New Hampshire Survey Center show a significant flip from earlier this year.

Just five years ago, there were only about 2,000 U.S. craft brewers. More than 800 opened for business in 2016 — and they're finding a changing market.

Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix briefs European leaders on the latest findings in Iraq. Blix refuses to term yesterday's discovery in Iraq of nearly a dozen empty warheads a "smoking gun" that would show Iraq to be in noncompliance with U.N. resolutions. NPR's Guy Raz reports.

Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the U.N. nuclear agency, and chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix arrive in Baghdad for talks with Iraqi officials. They are expected to warn Iraq that it must cooperate more intensely with arms inspectors. Hear NPR's Kate Seelye and Walter Russell Mead of the Council on Foreign Relations.

On Second Stage, All Songs Considered producer Robin Hilton profiles the best of music's great unknowns. He chooses the best outsider artists of 2007: musicians who made remarkable recordings that were largely overlooked, led by Le Loup.

The non-profit College Board reports that the average annual cost of a four-year private college is now above $30,000. Sending a student off to a year at a public school now costs, on average, nearly $12,800.

The Jan. 6 panel's Chairman Bennie Thompson said they will issue the referrals, but stopped short of sharing any names with reporters

Democrats and Republicans can agree to very little about the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, including how to investigate it. The fallout is impacting the ability to work across party lines.

Poet Tracy K. Smith's three favorite poems of 2011 blur the private and public, the personal and political, and will refresh how you look at language and the world.

00000171-bbcb-dc93-afff-bbebb27d0000Thank you to our Your Vote 2016 sponsors: MEMIC, Lambert Coffin and the Colby Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs and Civil Engagement.CONGRESSIONAL DEBATES:First District Congressional DebateWatch NowListen NowMore Coverage: Chellie Pingree Maine Calling, Mark Holbrook Maine CallingSecond District Congressional DebateWatch NowListen NowMore Coverage: Emily Cain Maine Calling. Note: Congressman Poliquin declined our invitation to appear on Maine Calling for a Your Vote 2016 profile.BALLOT QUESTIONS:Question 1 legalizes, regulates and taxes marijuana as an agricultural product.Watch NowListen NowMore Coverage: High Stakes: How Legalizing Pot Could Affect MaineQuestion 2 establishes a 3% tax on household income over $200,000 to increase public school aid.Watch NowListen NowMore Coverage: Mainers to Decide: Pay for Education Costs With Tax on Wealthy?Question 3 requires specific background checks for gun sales and transfers.Watch NowListen NowMore Coverage: Culture Clash: Mainers Takes Sides in Gun Control ReferendumQuestion 4 increases minimum wage to $12 per hour by 2020.Watch NowListen NowMore Coverage: Raising the Minimum WageQuestion 5 establishes statewide ranked-choice voting.Watch NowListen NowMore Coverage: Can Ranked-Choice Voting Improve Maine's Elections?, A Primer on Ranked- Choice Voting, produced by Minnesota Public Radio News.Question 6 issues $100 million in bonds for transportation projects.Additional Coverage:George Mitchell: 'From Mudslinging to Mutual Respect: How to Make Politics More Civil' (Watch Now), (Listen Now)Archive resources:Bruce Poliquin (R): Profile (2014), Maine Calling interview (2014)