The state legislature has passed several laws this year that limit the ability of towns and cities to control zoning — for example, towns must allow multifamily residential development in commercially zoned areas where infrastructure exists. HB 577 (Chapter 197, 2025) Requires towns/cities to allow either an attached or a detached accessory dwelling unit (ADU) ... Read more

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We like to give the social-justice warriors at Netflix a hard Time, but Disney, as a platform, has lost a lot of credibility in the past decade, all because it let the #Wokeasaurus in the door. Its reimaging of the Star Wars universe may have resulted in some spectacular backgrounds and film-making innovations (something the ... Read more

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After decades of spewing – and funding — climate alarmist rhetoric of the most virulent kind, multi-billionaire Bill Gates shocked the Left by admitting what some of us have been saying all along: Yeah, the climate is changing (it does that), but it’s totally manageable and not a crisis. So, y’all just chill the heck ... Read more

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Welcome to the launch of The Independents with Carla Gericke—the show for New Hampshire’s largest voting bloc: the Undeclareds. In this premiere episode, Carla dives into what makes the state’s independents tick, from political philosophy to practical freedom. We’ll also explore New Hampshire’s first 3D-printed home now on the market (and available for Bitcoin!), recap ... Read more

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A month into the Schumer Shutdown, and Democrats are still trying to distract you from how full of shit they are. Oh look, Trump is destroying the White House (with donor money), which was a super cool narrative that gave the internet an excuse to point out that most Presidents do something (Barry added an ... Read more

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On this installment of Granite Disourse, our guest is Kristin Noble. She is a NH state rep currently serving her 2nd term for Hillsborough County District 2. She is the vice chair for the Education Policy and Administration committee and was named the NH Liberty Alliance 2025 legislator of the year. You can find out ... Read more

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The Growing Cost of Legal Battles in New Hampshire Schools As school boards and budget committees across New Hampshire begin preparing next year’s budgets, local taxpayers are taking a closer look at how their property taxes are being spent. One area drawing quiet but growing concern is the rising cost of legal expenses in public ... Read more

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Groktober is coming to an end, and with it, those bothersome pumpkin meme graphics. What, next, one wonders, might replace it? November is filled with possibilities and Thanksgiving. Pilgrims, turkey, whatever you call the occupants, they eventually displaced. No matter, you’ll still get a meme or two hundred or whatever. . . . . . ... Read more

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Democratic Dysfunction, Obamacare’s Failures, and the Cost to Granite Staters Millions of families across America—and right here in New Hampshire—are feeling the consequences of Washington’s political dysfunction as the latest government shutdown stretches from days to weeks. For federal workers, SNAP recipients, small businesses, and property owners struggling to keep up with rising costs, this ... Read more

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Today, on the morning update, we have some government shutdown history and why that’s a scary thing for Democrats. Links: VDH: https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/10/29/the-fresh-new-jacobin-faces-of-the-democrat-party/? Thune: https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/10/29/time-end-charade-end-schumer-shutdown/? Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. Got Something to Say, We Want to Hear It. Comment ... Read more

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Elon Musk’s xAI continues to generate things for the world to wade around in. The latest is Grokipedia. Musk’s answer to Wikipedia, but driven, not by humans. Grokipedia is generated by AI, which, according to Wikipedia, has included significant content from Wikipedia. Given that AI gets its fuel from across the internet, that makes sense. ... Read more

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Despite paid efforts to discredit Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the MAHA slogan, the movement continues to thrive and expand because Americans know the truth when they hear it. The hopeful energy of those involved in MAHA grows more intense with each weekly Media Hub and each monthly Washington, DC event. This wave of optimistic determination was ... Read more

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This week on right side up, we discuss more illegal human trafficking across the northern border, and Is it environmentalism or environmental vandalism?” Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. Got Something to Say, We Want to Hear It. Comment or submit ... Read more

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MTV was new, and so (still) was President Reagan. The year was 1981. I graduated from high school, and that was the last time the Amundsen-Scott station at the South Pole recorded a temperature as cold as the one on Oct 15th, 2025, minus 61.3 degrees…centigrade. According to the AI search assistant, “The coldest temperature ... Read more

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The Brainwashed Sheeple of America think that the Constitution is our supreme law when it only applies to our public servants. The Preamble applies to We the People, but We the Brainwashed Sheeple do not understand this. The Preamble gives us the right to rewrite the entire Constitution any time we feel like it, with ... Read more

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Watching other people’s cultures degenerate at the hands of their own government is increasingly less amusing when you know that they want to ruin yours as well. Global elites have a plan, and it involves fewer white folks, and if you thought it was getting weird, this takes it to a whole new level. According ... Read more

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In these days of political polarization, I’m hearing a lot of complaints about “whataboutism,” the phenomenon of answering a question about the actions of one person or group with an example of something similar done by someone else. Trump mishandled classified documents! What about Hillary Clinton, for example? But yeah… what about Hillary Clinton? Were ... Read more

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Key Takeaways Measuring ROI with traffic conversions and keyword presence – not the number of links. The term Buy Quality Backlinks is one of the most popular and not well-understood SEO terms in 2025. Backlinks have been regarded as a strength of ranking since time immemorial, but as Google advances in the changing algorithms and ... Read more

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Today, on the morning Update, a local poll just dropped asking Local Dems who they’d pick as their Presidential nominee for 2028. Links: Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. Got Something to Say, We Want to Hear It. Comment or submit ... Read more

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The EdOpt Fair is coming to Keene this coming Monday!  More than a dozen providers will be there for families to meet and learn about all the possibilities: RSVP if you’re an education provider in the region who is interested in having a table there, or if you simply want to get a reminder. We ... Read more

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