I have the pink plastic champagne glass from Augusta Petron’s memorial service on the top of the bookshelf behind me. It’s a piece of NH Political history and a reminder of a wonderful human being. Sometimes you can see it in the background of my podcast (GrokTALK!) or the Morning Update, depending on how I ... Read more

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Remember that Janet Jackson song What Have You Done For Me Lately?  It’s a tune from my teenage years that comes to mind when I think of our Senate Judiciary committee, the body that rubber-stamped HB1002 last year during Queen Sharon’s (committee) leadership and also got that judge-retirement-age question on the ballot.  Yeah, we’ve had ... Read more

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A little over a month ago, we discussed the superficiality of policy debates in New Hampshire in Tax Foundation Rates New Hampshire #3 … So What? … should New Hampshire’s tax policy be to achieve as high a rating as possible on the Tax Foundation’s “competitive index”? The Governor, the local Koch organization, and GOP State ... Read more

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I am not going to go back too far in time, only to 2020 and the Summer of Love. In the last five years, the Democrats have given us enough to show that they are more concerned and bigger fans of people who commit crimes against Americans than they are of the actual victims of ... Read more

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News broke this week that the FBI had arrested someone in connection with the placement of two pipe bombs on January 6, 2021. As surprising as that might be, it wasn’t the woman everyone suspected from the videos attributed to that individual. Shauni Rey Kerkhoff, whom an “Expert” suggested was a 94-97% match for the ... Read more

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A 29-year-old man with no known address is facing arson and unlawful mischief charges after a series of late-November incidents involving fires, vandalism of police vehicles, and damage to the city’s Christmas tree, according to the Barre City Police Department. The first incident occurred on November 25, at around 7:50 p.m., when officers discovered a ... Read more

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No Independents w/Carla Gericke this week. Instead, we have a recent episode of New Hampshire Right to Life’s The Ever-Living Podcast, featuring guest Kathleen Clark. “Kathleen is a registered nurse and is passionate about caring for others, incorporating faith into healthcare, and helping patients from all walks of life to achieve spiritual, medical, and emotional ... Read more

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The City of Nashua has been spiralling downward in an epic political shitshow for a number of years, coincidental to the reign of its current Mayor for life, Jim Donchess. It is cloistered, inefficient, and untransparent. At the same time, it wastes millions more taxpayers’ dollars on legal fights to prevent citizens from ensuring government ... Read more

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Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) introduced legislation on Nov. 20 that would prohibit the use of federal funds or tax credits to support solar panel development on productive farmland. The Protecting American Farmland Act mirrors legislation introduced in the House in May by Rep. Dave Taylor (R-OH). The bills effectively reverse tax and funding support for ... Read more

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Another week in the can, and one week closer to Christmas, and whatever that means to you, good or bad, naughty, or nice, we’ll always have a meme or two or fifty or maybe more. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Please ... Read more

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Maine stole our land when we weren’t looking. The historical evidence is overwhelming and clear. For almost 300 years, the Granite State’s northern border ran down through the Piscataqua River, snaked across Maine’s Portsmouth Harbor shoreline, then bisected the Isles of Shoals. New Hampshire’s borders embraced the entire harbor, including Badger’s Island, Seavey’s Island, and ... Read more

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Today, on the morning update, Trump just tossed another “affordability” grenade over the wall as he rolls back some irresponsible regulatory demands from the Biden Era. Note: The Morning Update now has its own authors page. Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, ... Read more

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New Hampshire ranks as the freest state in North America, as measured in this year’s Economic Freedom of North America report, released today by the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy in conjunction with Canada’s Fraser Institute. For the 24th time, New Hampshire is the freest state among all U.S. states, having scored 8.34 out of 10 ... Read more

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Natalie Sandoval – Daily Caller News Foundation “Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent,” Adam Smith wrote in his treatise on moral sentiments. Legacy media publications are especially guilty of this. Nothing pulls on their heartstrings quite like an illegal migrant convicted of a heinous crime.  “The Trump Administration is deporting people to ... Read more

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This week on Right Side Up, we discuss gun crimes and the 4473 form perjury crimes that don’t often get charged. 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 Op-Eds to steve@granitegrok.com ... Read more

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I think we forget how much the Trump Administration has done in fewer than eleven months. Or maybe we have, and this new normal has us itchy and bitchy for so much more. True, there is much left to do, but even if it all ended today, more positive change has never been seen in ... Read more

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Trump’s triumph elevates love of life above war and death. On November 20, President Donald Trump hosted 17 of the 20 Israeli hostages recently released by Hamas at the White House. He campaigned on promises to end the war in Palestine and bring the hostages home, and he has worked tirelessly to do so. The ... Read more

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Governments have been killing their own people for their own advantage since there have been “governments” (see also: Kane and Able). From criminals to inconvenient truth tellers, power has a way of wanting to protect its own ass, so when the proglodytes started directing their abundance of “empathy” and “compassion” toward the chronically ill, everyone’s ... Read more

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My six-year fight for government transparency, recognized by the Nackey S. Loeb and New England First Amendment Awards, exposed a cynical failure in the New Hampshire judicial system. My Right-to-Know (RTK) lawsuits sought critical records, from assessing records to an alleged fraudulent federal funding scheme for the Nashua Performing Arts Center, a matter serious enough that the federal government is ... Read more

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Today, on the morning update, Snow and how it was supposed to be extinct (remember that?), but refuses to align with the unimpeachable, irrefutable hypothesis. 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 ... Read more

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