The Manchester Free Press

Wednesday • July 30 • 2025

Vol.XVII • No.XXXI

Manchester, N.H.

Opinion: Malfeasance, Misfeasance, Inefficiency or Incapacity or Unfitness to Perform Duties

Granite Grok - Wed, 2025-07-09 19:00 +0000
As a follow-up to my piece from January, which made awareness of a Library Trustee Candidate’s activism in the Transitioning Children space, otherwise known as legalized child abuse, I am sad to report that said candidate, Beth Labrecque Marrocco, was indeed elected as a Library Trustee for the Leach Library in Londonderry, NH.   (Of note, Liz ... Read more

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Scaer: Dartmouth Health’s Misleading Statements on “Gender-Affirming Care” Compiled for AG Bondi Probe

Granite Grok - Wed, 2025-07-09 18:00 +0000
On April 22, US Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter to state Medicaid directors about the actions they need to take to “prevent the mutilation of American children.” The Department of Justice will investigate and hold accountable medical providers and pharmaceutical companies that mislead the public about the long-term side effects of chemical and ... Read more

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Midweek Memes

Granite Grok - Wed, 2025-07-09 16:00 +0000
Welcome to Wednesday and nother round of hump day memes including actual memes about hump day. Funny, political, classic, and with as few repeats as we can manage given the size of our library of published memes (which you can survey anytime in our archives – give yourself a few hours, maybe days). Let’s Go! ... Read more

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Underwood: Do EFAs Actually Save Money?

Granite Grok - Wed, 2025-07-09 14:00 +0000
I’ve recently had questions from quite a few people about how Education Freedom Accounts (EFAs) work. During the conversations, they often mention that “the money follows the child” and “EFAs are saving money”. EFAs are one of many solutions for families for whom the default district school isn’t working. But families will be in a ... Read more

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MacDonald: Neither “Climate Change” nor “Budget Cuts” Is Responsible for Flood Deaths in Texas

Granite Grok - Wed, 2025-07-09 11:00 +0000
Vermont floods occasionally, but until recently, when politics and money were at stake, no one blamed it on your trying to live a comfortable, affordable life. These days, that comfort is to blame for something that has been happening since long before peasants could find much, if any, comfort. Flooding happens, and people build stuff ... Read more

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Klar: The Seesaw Court History of the Ten Commandments on Display

Granite Grok - Wed, 2025-07-09 02:00 +0000
A Louisiana law requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools has been struck down by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals as unconstitutional. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott just signed a similar bill, which will likely struggle under the Fifth Circuit decision, while plaintiffs in Arkansas have filed suit challenging a nearly identical ... Read more

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Smith: Free Speech Much, Alderman Dowd?

Granite Grok - Wed, 2025-07-09 00:00 +0000
Great theologians and secular philosophers alike have advised us to “practice gratitude.”  I think it’s a great idea and I know I should do more of that myself.  One sign post reminder of that appeared in my inbox as a group email from a Ward 3 watchdog.  What is high on my “gratitude list” today?  ... Read more

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Granite State Live: 7-8-2025

Granite Grok - Tue, 2025-07-08 23:00 +0000
This week, Julian and co-host Josh Barnes are joined by … Plus other local and national news, rants, your calls – live, and more. If the player isn’t present please refresh the page. This week, Julian and co-host Josh Barnes are joined by Chris Bugard for an update on the Texas Floods; Jeff Dornik, the ... Read more

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MacDonald: Dem New Hampshire House Rep Arrested for DUI

Granite Grok - Tue, 2025-07-08 21:00 +0000
 Keene, New Hampshire Democrat NH House Rep. Jodi Newell (Cheshire District 4) was arrested on July 1st after police responded to a call about a motor vehicle accident involving a tree. State Rep. Jodi Newell was arrested Monday evening on a charge of driving under the influence following a single-vehicle crash on Base Hill Road, ... Read more

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Roper: How to Fund Your Donors With Tax Dollars

Granite Grok - Tue, 2025-07-08 18:00 +0000
State Sen. wants constituents to pay for her policy failures In a recent VT Digger article with the misleading headline, “Clean Heat Standard is Dead. What comes next?” (It’s not, it’s just temporarily dormant until it can be fully implemented), Senator Anne Watson (D/P -Washington) expressed her hope and desire that the state be sued ... Read more

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Cardello: Hakeem, Meltdown Is Not Leadership

Granite Grok - Tue, 2025-07-08 16:00 +0000
People will die. Hundreds of people will die. Thousands of people will die. Thank goodness they stopped before they reached millions, as nobody would believe that hyperbole. According to Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), she could not make her way through an airport without people coming up to her so distressed by the Big Beautiful Bill, ... Read more

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Colquhoun: Medicare Fraud Is Real and I Have The “Receipts”

Granite Grok - Tue, 2025-07-08 14:00 +0000
By now, most Americans have heard about the Justice Department’s 2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown, which uncovered $14.6 billion in fraudulent schemes involving Medicare and taxpayer funds. What you may not realize is that this kind of fraud is happening quietly and regularly, to people like me, and possibly to you. In January 2023, ... Read more

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MacDonald: When All You’ve Got Is TDS

Granite Grok - Tue, 2025-07-08 11:00 +0000
When your entire identity and agenda are defined by someone like Donald Trump, RFKJ, and, for a brief moment, Elon Musk, the one thing external observers need to understand is why? The easy answer is that they don’t stand for anything but their own misinterpretations of what someone else is doing, followed by projections of ... Read more

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Cardello: Texas Tragedy Is Also A Miracle

Granite Grok - Tue, 2025-07-08 02:00 +0000
Mother Nature showed her ugly side on Saturday night and Sunday morning and claimed over 68 lives in the small town of Kerrville, Texas. As the rains came down at over 12 inches per hour, all that water had just one path to take. The water flowed into the Guadalupe River near San Antonio, and ... Read more

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GrokTALK!: Not What I had Planned

Granite Grok - Tue, 2025-07-08 00:00 +0000
Gremlins ate my podcast, but I salvaged some of the conversation I recorded an excellent interview with Phil Kerpen from American Commitment last week about the One Big Beautiful Bill, and could not get it from recording to publication. There were insurmountable technical issues. It was such a crash and burn that the AI-generated transcript ... Read more

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Smith: Spotlight Of Positivity; Victoria Sullivan

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-07-07 21:00 +0000
Let’s first give a hat tip to Kevin Landrigan for recognizing Victoria Sullivan’s senatorial accomplishments as a freshman, which was what inspired this article.  While I certainly want to make clear that I do NOT fancy myself in the same league as Kevin Landrigan nor do I see my Spotlight of Positivity citation as having ... Read more

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MacDonald: Own Ghislaine Maxwell’s NH Hideout for (around) $2.5 Million

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-07-07 18:00 +0000
Incorporated by the General Court on September 27, 1787, Bradford, New Hampshire, previously New Bradford and Bradfordton, is a plucky little burb with a current population of just over 1600. In 2021, the Bradford fire Chief was arrested for sexual assault, and two select board members promptly quit shortly after. Last month, a registered sex offender was ... Read more

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Monday Memes!

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-07-07 16:00 +0000
We’re fresh off the long Independence Day weekend, long for some of us, and back to work (unless you got Monday off too). Whatever your work situation, nothing starts a new week off better than memes! None of this happens without you – Please support us today!

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Richard: Citizenship and Voting Rights – A Return to Constitutional Roots 

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-07-07 14:00 +0000
The question of who gets to vote in America is not just a matter of policy but a profound reflection of our constitutional heritage. To understand voting rights, we must return to the foundational documents—the U.S. and state constitutions—and interpret them through the lens of their original intent, as the U.S. Supreme Court has reaffirmed ... Read more

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MacDonald: Protest This

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-07-07 11:00 +0000
I find it difficult to imagine that the 20% of the population with Trump Derangement Syndrome or those who are TDS “adjacent” could ever tire of expressing their ire in public. It’s more or less all they’ve got. What does your party stand for? Hating Trump! We’re not Trump. Trump is evil. He is destroying ... Read more

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