Tuesday • April 14 • 2026
Vol.XVIII • No.XVI
Manchester, N.H.
Police are asking for help identifying three individuals involved in a brazen retail theft at Kohl’s in the Berlin Mall on Sunday afternoon. According to the Berlin Police Department, the incident occurred at about 3 PM on April 12, when three individuals entered the store, filled shopping carts with merchandise, and then exited without attempting ... Read more
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Some readers have encouraged me to identify as a historian, despite my not having a degree in history. For a long time, I have been reluctant to do so, thinking it would be both presumptuous and misleading, but I have recently changed my mind. Here is why. I think the very first seed was planted ... Read more
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This week, on GrokTALK!, the Pappas for Senate Campaign is openly deceiving its followers, we have a quick call to action on Campus Carry legislation, and then a look at a little Dem Civil War action blowing up the California Governor’s race. The mud is flying in the Golden State, but shouldn’t some of it ... Read more
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Libertarian Youth @ Porcfest Checking Out Guns On Display
House Bill 1793, the “Protecting College Students Act,” passed the NH House to allow firearms and non-lethal weapons on public college campuses. Scheduled for a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on April 14, 2026, the bill prohibits institutions from enforcing gun-free policies, protecting Second Amendment rights against threats like active shooters.
Students opposed to the bill are being “bussed in”. Fortunately other libertarians and students in favor of the bill will also be at the hearing to testify in favor of it. Restoring the gun rights of our young folks is just one of the many freedoms libertarians have been focused on in New Hampshire.
Unlike “adults” students and other young adults are generally disenfranchised from advocating for their own rights under our current system. They’re inhibited or prohibited from getting drivers licenses, employment, and similar.
Without the assistance of adults many college students can’t get to a state house hearing to testify on this bill who’d otherwise support it. Unfortunately “adults” with more fiscal resources are enabling those opposing the bill to attend that it would otherwise be difficult or impossible for them to testify against.
The wonderful thing about New Hampshire is that there are an increasing number of doers advocating for freedom thanks to the Free State Project’s migration of like-minded liberty conscious folks from around the world.
Whether this bill passes or not is less relevant to our overall long term success, but it none-the-less very well may soon be another check on tyrannical government that has infected every government on earth.
For those interested in attending the hearing:
It’s being held in Room 100 @ 01:45 pm on Tuesday April 14th.
Address: 107 N Main Street, Concord, NH 03303.
Minnesota Democrats are making life unaffordable for everyone in the State, it seems, unless you open a learning center. But even that gig has come under fire as Federal fraud investigations look for the nine billion that disappeared up Minnesota’s skirt while Tim Walz was gushing over how great China is, and we know why? ... Read more
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… New Hampshire Collects Quite a Bit of Revenue From Sales Taxes Here is a breakdown of state taxes collected for the month of March by New Hampshire: While Governor Kelly Ayotte, the local Koch-organization, and their minions in the Legislature may incessantly claim that New Hampshire has “no sales tax,” e.g.: a review of ... Read more
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Reminder: Memes are memes and are neither “fact-checked” nor do they (necessarily) represent the opinion of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... Read more
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A conversation between one-old-conservative and Claude (Anthropic) — April 2026 Backgrounder: This is another in a series of original GraniteGrok articles on Artificial Intelligence (AI), written by one-old-conservative and Anthropic’s Claude 4.6 from an unscripted chat over breakfast. Before beginning the chat, I uploaded a 220-word text file that contained a recap of our research ... Read more
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Today, on the Morning Update, the Handmaiden media didn’t just ignore the homeless voter registration scandal uncovered by James O’Keefe and OMG; they went out and found one of their own they could proudly report instead. Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the embedded video does not load. Get More Morning Update Here! – ... Read more
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We already know who Councilor Wheeler’s 2026 opponent is going to be, and it’s unsurprisingly Ms Melanie Levesque. She announced their rematch in January, when she was the honoree at a Martin Luther King event. There are 5 seats in the Executive Council, and there hasn’t been much discussion about opponents for the 4 other ... Read more
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The horizon over Tehran has changed. It is no longer defined by the minarets or the sprawling concrete of a revolutionary capital, but by the jagged, smoldering silhouettes of a shattered industrial base. The “Thirty-Nine Days of Fire” – a campaign of kinetic intensity unseen in this century – has concluded in a fragile, two-week ... Read more
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On the Granite Discourse, Brian Cole is a New Hampshire state representative for Hillsborough County District 26. He is currently serving his 2nd term in the Statehouse as well as running for US Congress in CD-1. He is a member of the Ways and Means committee and the Vice Chair of the Housing committee. Authors’ ... Read more
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This coming Wednesday, I will publish the 150th installment of the Morning Update. I started it on September 18th, 2025, on a whim, and a strong personal and professional need to 1) get better at doing off-the-cuff video shots, and 2) to increase our presence in the space. I opened with, ” Don’t get used ... Read more
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Go to any social media platform these days (Maybe not Bluesky. I’m not on it so don’t know, but this could explain quite a bit.) and you will see some version of a video of New York governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) mocking her wealthy, tax-averse constituents with the 2022 taunt, “Jump on a bus and ... Read more
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I was in front of the laptop at 1:30 this morning, trying desperately to make some sense out of all the thoughts racing through my head. I was not succeeding. I was debating with myself, and losing terribly, about the purpose of government in my life and whether it has helped me or held me ... Read more
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What Is Nashua Hiding? — The “Unsettling” Hunt for Settlements New Hampshire’s Right-to-Know Law has a provision most people don’t know exists, and one New Hampshire city is apparently counting on that. RSA 91-A:4 VI is short, clear, and unambiguous. Every settlement agreement involving a lawsuit, a threatened lawsuit, or any other claim against a ... Read more
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Of the 33 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 2 and opposition of 1 with 3 being of interest.
Of the 48 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 14 and opposition of 4 with 3 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support | HB1043 | relative to employer discretion in offering minimum payment options to employees. | Commerce | Tue 4/14 | 10:25 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill allows employers to establish their own pay policies for employees reporting to work, making the statutory minimum pay requirement applicable only when no alternative company policy exists. |
| Of Interest | SB661 | relative to pooled risk management programs. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Tue 4/14 | 1:15 PM | GP Room 229 | This bill: I. Enables the secretary of state to require abatement of insufficient assets or to seek receivership, if necessary, of a pooled risk management program. II. Requires assessment of each participating member of the pooled risk management program on a pro rata basis to satisfy the amount of the deficiency. III. Requires the governing board of the pooled risk management program to use a standard of care, diligence, prudence, and skill in the management of the program. IV. Provides for the assessment of a pooled risk management program’s participating members, if required, after an actuarial calculation. V. Provides for contingency reserve standards depending on the pooled risk management programs line of coverage and requiring a contingency reserve replenishment if a program’s contingency reserves fall below the minimum level. VI. Requires pooled risk management programs to make certain public disclosures to prospective and actual member political subdivisions. VII. Makes technical corrections |
| Support | HB1256 | removing the authority of the state librarian to award scholarships to students attending graduate library schools. | Education | Tue 4/14 | 9:35 AM | SL Room Map Room | This bill removes the authority of the state librarian to award scholarships to qualified persons to attend a graduate library school accredited by the American Library Association. |
| Support | HB1526 | relative to the adopting of a municipal budget committee and electing members thereof. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 4/14 | 10:00 AM | SH Room 122-123 | This bill: I. Modifies the procedure for adopting, rescinding, and electing a municipal budget committee. II. Modifies the time frame for the appointment of initial members of a cooperative school district budget committee. |
| Support | HB1542 | (Second New Title) directing alternative compliance payments to the renewable energy fund to be refunded to ratepayers. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 4/14 | 9:10 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill provides that alternative compliance payments to the renewable energy fund under RSA 362-F:10, II shall be refunded to ratepayers. |
| Support | HB1206 | clarifying the equity jurisdiction of the judicial branch family division. | Judiciary | Tue 4/14 | 1:15 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill clarifies the equity jurisdiction of the judicial branch family division (now the circuit court, family division). |
| Oppose | HB1361 | relative to the procedure concerning search warrant inventories. | Judiciary | Tue 4/14 | 1:25 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill modifies the process for creating an inventory concerning the execution of a search warrant. This bill is a request of the department of safety. |
| Support | HB1422 | relative to the time to petition for a new trial. | Judiciary | Tue 4/14 | 1:35 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill allows additional time to petition for a new trial in certain circumstances. |
| Support | HB1793 | prohibiting public colleges and universities from regulating the possession or carrying of firearms and non-lethal weapons on campus. | Judiciary | Tue 4/14 | 1:45 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill: I. Prohibits public colleges and universities from regulating the possession or carrying of firearms and non-lethal weapons on campus. II. Allows persons aggrieved by public colleges or universities that implement such regulations to sue such institutions for damages and injunctive relief. |
| Support | SB88 | prohibiting state government entities from including specified terms related to labor organization agreements in construction related contracts and grants. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Tue 4/14 | 10:15 AM | GP Room 159 | This bill prohibits state entities from including specified terms related to labor organization agreements in construction related contracts and grants. |
| Oppose | SB559 | reducing the minimum allowable speed limit on locally controlled roads. | Transportation | Tue 4/14 | 10:40 AM | GP Room 234 | This bill reduces the minimum speed limits that local authorities may set in certain districts from 25 miles per hour to 20 miles per hour, based on engineering or traffic investigations. |
| Support | HB1421 | modifying title exemptions for motor vehicles manufactured before the year 2000. | Transportation | Tue 4/14 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 122-123 | This bill exempts any motor vehicle that is at least 20 years old from the requirement to obtain a certificate of title, except for heavy trucks and truck-tractors with a gross vehicle weight over 18,000 pounds. This exemption applies on a rolling basis as vehicles reach 20 years of age. This bill also allows a person who owns a title-exempt vehicle the ability to voluntarily request a title. |
| Support | HB1549 | establishing that titles, bills of sale, and identification documents are required only at initial registration or transfer of ownership. | Transportation | Tue 4/14 | 1:20 PM | SH Room 122-123 | This bill limits the requirement to present ownership and identification documents to the initial registration or transfer of a vehicle and affirms that prior registration is sufficient for renewal. |
| Of Interest | HB1252 | (New Title) requiring the department of safety to only administer tests for commercial driver’s licenses in English and prohibiting the assistance of an interpreter during such tests. | Transportation | Tue 4/14 | 1:40 PM | SH Room 122-123 | This bill: I. Codifies the recent enforcement of a federal requirement that the administration of the skills test for commercial driver’s licenses only be conducted in English and that interpreters are not permitted for the administration of the skills test. II. Extends the same requirements for the administration of the knowledge test for commercial driver’s licenses. III. Requires commercial driver’s licensees of the past 5 years who previously satisfied the knowledge or skills test requirement through testing in a language other than English or with the assistance of an interpreter to pass such examinations in English and without the assistance of an interpreter. IV. Directs the department of safety to adopt rules regarding the requirement and to provide notice and an opportunity for hearing to current licensees required to pass an examination in English in order to maintain their license. V. Provides an exemption for the use of interpreters for the knowledge and skills test where such individual or |
| Support | SB504 | relative to the practice of pharmacy and the dispensing of certain medications by pharmacists. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 4/15 | 1:10 PM | GP Room 231 | This bill: I. Authorizes the dispensing of up to a 30-day supply of noncontrolled oral anti-cancer medication by a licensed health care professional legally authorized to prescribe and administer medications to a patient under a provider’s care or supervision subject to certain conditions. II. Amends the display requirements for certain licenses and permits. III. Authorizes licensed advanced pharmacy technicians to engage in remote processing. IV. Removes the requirement that a pharmacist’s name or initials be on a label affixed to any controlled drug or prescription issued. V. Amends the definition of the “practice of pharmacy.” VI. Removes certain authority of the board of pharmacy with respect to the regulation of collaborative pharmacy practice agreements. VII. Eliminates any examination requirement for licensure as an advanced pharmacy technician. VIII. Prohibits the pharmacy board from testing applicants on pharmacy jurisprudence or law. |
| Support | HB1378 | relative to parental access to a minor child’s electronic medical records. | Health and Human Services | Wed 4/15 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill provides parents of minor children full access to their minor children’s medical record except under certain circumstances. |
| Support | HB360 | (New Title) prohibiting public schools from performing surgical procedures or prescribing pharmaceutical drugs. | Health and Human Services | Wed 4/15 | 9:45 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill prohibits public schools from performing surgical procedures or prescribing pharmaceutical drugs. |
| Support | HB1335 | requiring health care providers to disclose to patients indirect financial incentives received by the provider. | Health and Human Services | Wed 4/15 | 10:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill requires a physician who receives compensation exceeding $5,000 or more as the result of a preferential promotion to disclose this information to the patient prior to prescribing any treatment associated with the source of the promotion. |
| Of Interest | SB570 | (New Title) relative to legislative ethics. | Legislative Administration | Wed 4/15 | 10:00 AM | GP Room 234 | This bill adds definitions related to determining conflicts of interests for legislators and adds additional budget-related bills, subject to certain limitations, to the list of exceptions to the recusal requirements. |
| Oppose | HB1477 | relative to the permitting and regulation of anchored seasonal floating platforms on public waters. | Ways and Means | Wed 4/15 | 9:45 AM | SH Room 122-123 | This bill restricts anchored seasonal platforms on public waters to adjacent shorefront property owners, requires permits with identification and a $50 fee, exempts certain government and conservation uses, and imposes fines for noncompliance. |
| Oppose | HB1602 | creating a safe battery recycling stewardship program. | Ways and Means | Wed 4/15 | 10:00 AM | SH Room 122-123 | This bill establishes a statewide battery stewardship program that requires safe collection, recycling, and management of covered batteries and battery-containing products, administered through producer participation and oversight by the department of environmental services. |
| Of Interest | SB498 | relative to children’s mental health services for persons 18 years of age and younger. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Thu 4/16 | 1:30 PM | GP Room 229 | This bill establishes the New Hampshire children’s behavioral health association for the purpose of collecting assessments to fund payments to care management entities for the provision of childhood behavioral health services. The association is authorized to collect assessments from insurance carriers, stop loss carriers, and third-party administrators for fully insured and self-funded health plans. The assessment base would include covered lives in the state employee health plan, as well as pooled risk management programs under RSA 5-b. The funds provided for this purpose would be deposited in a dedicated fund administered by the insurance commissioner. |
| Oppose | HB215 | requiring a landfill permit applicant to submit a report listing potential harms and benefits of the project. | Energy and Natural Resources | Thu 4/16 | 1:10 PM | SH Room 103 | This bill requires a landfill permit applicant to submit a report listing potential harms and benefits of the project and requires the department of environmental services to make a determination that the landfill is a net public benefit. |
| Of Interest | HB1138 | limiting the placement of out-of-state waste going into New Hampshire landfills. | Energy and Natural Resources | Thu 4/16 | 1:20 PM | SH Room 103 | This bill limits the placement of out-of-state waste in New Hampshire landfills. |
| Support | HB1022 | relative to religious exemption from immunization requirements. | Health and Human Services | Thu 4/16 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill specifies the form for religious exemption from childhood immunization requirements. |
| Of Interest | HB1071 | repealing immunity afforded health care facilities when following directives adopted in response to the COVID-19 state of emergency. | Health and Human Services | Thu 4/16 | 1:15 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill repeals immunity afforded health care facilities when following directives adopted in response to the COVID-19 state of emergency. |
| Support | HB1219 | relative to immunization requirements in foster family homes. | Health and Human Services | Thu 4/16 | 1:30 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill provides that vaccination requirements for adults residing in foster homes shall not exceed the vaccination requirements of RSA 141-C:20-a, either in type of vaccination, quality of doses, or authorization for exemption. |
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Thanks to AI and people with nothing better to do, it has become virtually impossible to believe anything you see on the internet. I don’t think that’s a bad thing. The response to COVID led tens of millions of people to adopt a healthy distrust of experts and the politicians (few of whom are good ... Read more
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What we see taking place today is a more public version of an ongoing effort by a president who isn’t politically connected and doesn’t care to be. These “airings” reveal, to our benefit, a well-organized agenda to subvert America into the globalist/communist empire, not by choice but of necessity. What continues to be overlooked is ... Read more
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