The Manchester Free Press

Sunday • May 4 • 2025

Vol.XVII • No.XVIII

Manchester, N.H.

Granite State Live Premier

Granite Grok - Wed, 2025-01-08 00:00 +0000
Welcome to the premier episode of Granite State Live! with Keith Hanson and Terese Bastarche! Live every Tuesday from 7-9 pm ET and replayed here on GraniteGrok.com/Grok Facebook/Grok X This Week: Be part of the program with live call-ins, video call-ins or via email Granite State Live! https://t.co/0Co0g7EKiw — GraniteGrok (@GraniteGrok) January 8, 2025 You ... Read more

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Disgruntled and Indifferent Attitudes

Granite Grok - Tue, 2025-01-07 23:00 +0000
From my perch and particular time in life, there has been this continuing growth of a fundamental absence, an essence that was practically universal during our Founding.  More concerning is that this missing link has become ingrained within portions of our elected leaders.  Specifically, what’s missing is a basic love of country, which entails the ... Read more

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Proposed NH House Hearing Rule Change Is Probably Dead But First ….

Granite Grok - Tue, 2025-01-07 21:00 +0000
This will be our 5th piece on a proposed NH House Rule Change (over just three days). The change, as explained to us, would allow committees to table any bill, meaning no public hearing. Save time and streamline. Eliminate redundancy. That was the plan, and everyone I’ve since heard was on board. It had bi-partisan ... Read more

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Kamala Follows In the Footprints of Nixon and Pence

Granite Grok - Tue, 2025-01-07 19:00 +0000
In the most significant act of Vice President Harris’s term, she declared Donald J. Trump the victor of the November election and the 47th President of the United States. Trump is the man who rose from political death, overcame a legal assault by Joe Biden’s Justice Department, and an all-out assault by a biased media ... Read more

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Rockingham County Chair

Granite Grok - Tue, 2025-01-07 18:00 +0000
With the Republicans holding full authority in the NH Senate, NH Reps, Exec Board and Governorship here in NH. In Washington DC, Republicans own the House and Senate along with the President of the US. So why would a Republican County Commissioner of Rockingham County (a PRO-Republican County), choose a Democrat from Portsmouth to become ... Read more

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Facebook is About to Get a Little Bit Less Censorious

Granite Grok - Tue, 2025-01-07 17:00 +0000
I wandered over to a different Grok, X’s AI, and found this headline. META Ditches Fact-Checkers for Community Notes. Who doesn’t click on that? Here’s what it said. Multiple Media reports confirm this as accurate. As many of our readers have been banned, thrown in Facebook Jail, and throttled by Meta, we look forward to ... Read more

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Proposed NH House Hearing Rule Change Is A Super Bad Idea

Granite Grok - Tue, 2025-01-07 15:00 +0000
Contrary to what Rep. Dan McGuire writes, the proposed rule change to allow committees to table bills without a hearing is a transparent attempt to block the people’s voice. More insidiously, it can be used to shut down what leadership considers “extremist” positions within their own party. A 75% vote in committee to “table” a ... Read more

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How Redgif is Changing the Game for Creators in 2025

Granite Grok - Tue, 2025-01-07 13:24 +0000
The landscape of platforms are continuously changing based on the needs of the creator and audience. Redgif, originally just a place to share short, animated clips, has become a big player in the creator economy. Redgif In 2025: More Than Entertainment — A Revolutionary Platform for Creators Redgif is redefining the digital landscape of 2023 for creators; let’s see ... Read more

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The Bordes Ban Is Back

Granite Grok - Tue, 2025-01-07 13:00 +0000
There’s a lot of injustice in the world, and not all its victims have a voice. Enter New Hampshire State Representative Mike Bordes. He’s a ‘republican’ from the Lakes region who voted to allow abortions in the late months of pregnancy. He’s also anti-parental rights and blocked efforts to remove porn from public schools, which ... Read more

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Ask Your Reps to Oppose Dangerous House Rule Change

Granite Grok - Tue, 2025-01-07 11:00 +0000
On Wednesday, January 8, 2025, the full New Hampshire House will meet to discuss and vote on proposed changes to the House rules. One of those changes, an amendment to House rules 44-52, would be an undemocratic change to the current legislative process in New Hampshire by preventing the public from speaking and voicing their opinion on ... Read more

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Resolve to Cut Spending in the New Year

Granite Grok - Tue, 2025-01-07 03:00 +0000
Vermont voters screamed that affordability is the number one issue we want the legislature to address in 2025. While lawmakers have little control over what we pay for eggs and hamburger, what they do have control over – total control over at the state level — is what we pay in taxes, fees, and regulatory ... Read more

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Crime, Lawsuits, and Is NH Better?

Granite Grok - Tue, 2025-01-07 01:00 +0000
This Week, Bill and Mike discuss New Year’s Resolutions, rising homelessness, Vermont’s growing crime problem, a recent lawsuit challenging its climate antics, and the benefits of living in New Hampshire.

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Ineptitude And Arrogance Must End Now

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-01-06 23:00 +0000
The tragedy in New Orleans and the car explosion outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas were horrific events in themselves. Still, the reaction and cover-up by authorities are as horrific and insulting. The people charged with keeping us safe by preventing incidents like the ones we experienced on New Year’s Eve are racing ... Read more

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10 Things Trump Can Do For Energy Independence

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-01-06 21:00 +0000
President-elect Donald Trump has a big job ahead of him in restoring common sense and sanity to federal energy policy when he takes office on January 20. The last four years in this realm can more accurately be characterized as a series of ill-considered, irrational scams than as any sort of coherent, productive set of ... Read more

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Vote Like I Tell You or the Kid Dies

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-01-06 19:00 +0000
The NH Suicide Prevention Council (NHSPC) is hosting a breakfast for lawmakers on Wednesday to push its social agenda which includes opposing parents’ rights, indoctrinating children with gender ideology, and sex-change procedures for minors. The council uses the trans suicide myth to blackmail lawmakers into voting against protecting children from gender ideology and experimental medicine ... Read more

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The Poster Child For Why Wind Will Fail Bigly

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-01-06 17:00 +0000
The Danes are an interesting lot. They publish research proving that polar ice and polar bears are fine while being all in on the not-so-renewable energy fad. They were big on the wind before there was a big wind, and for years, it has been painfully evident that it’s not going to work, but they ... Read more

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California

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-01-06 16:57 +0000
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Epping High School – Feelings outweigh Constitutional Rights?

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-01-06 16:57 +0000
By Dana Buckley It was truly sad and disturbing news to learn of the recent incident at Epping High School which involved a student being told by the school principal that she could not wear a shirt bearing the name of our nation’s current president while in school. The student was quoted in the Union ... Read more

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Proposed Rule Change on NH House Hearings is a Good Idea

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-01-06 15:00 +0000
In a recent op-ed on the left-leaning InDepthNH, former Rep. Marjorie Porter opposed a proposed NH House rules change that will be debated on Wednesday. Unfortunately she failed to describe the proposal, opposing it on the basis that other states have bad practices (they do) which are like this (they aren’t). Let’s start with current practice and ... Read more

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By Housing Crisis Do You Mean Taxing People Out of Their Homes?

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-01-06 13:00 +0000
The words “Housing Crisis” have achieved epidemic status next to “overdose deaths,” “Bird Flu,” and if you are one for reminiscing, everything about the COVID thing. It is a topic with a polarizing quality whose solutions I have inferred might not be so good for New Hampshire. A less frequently cited problem in housing “issues” ... Read more

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