Wednesday • March 18 • 2026
Vol.XVIII • No.XII
Manchester, N.H.
Today’s attitudes regard our American Constitution as an old and worn document from another age, one that is inadequate for today’s modern needs. In fact, whenever it’s cited, an explanation for its use is usually given since today’s hindsight condemns its time to that sad and dark era of slavery. We forget or even fail ... Read more
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This week, on The Independents, live from the Free State of New Hampshire, Carla Gericke is joined in-studio by constitutional scholar Daniel Richard (National Heritage Center for Constitutional Studies) for a deep dive into his citizen-led initiative Save Our Schools NH. Daniel lays out a constitutional history tour that connects school governance, taxation, Claremont, and ... Read more
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This’ll be a touchy subject for the left and a few suspect Republicans. How dare you (Thank you, Greta), share the commentary of a black man ranting about why there are no nice black neighborhoods. Because it begs a few questions, most of which point directly to white and black Democrats and their modern plantation ... Read more
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Let’s put aside all the nonsense, and let’s ask this question: why do the Democrats oppose using voter identification to vote? Very simple, people voting illegally, be a convicted felon who lost his or her right to vote, be an illegal alien that doesn’t have the right to vote, someone impersonating somebody else, or voting ... Read more
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Thanks to HHS Secretary Kennedy, Help Is on the Way. Recent laboratory tests of military meals, and Meals Ready to Eat (MREs), revealed high levels of pesticides, heavy metals, and livestock drug residues within the food. America’s troops deserve better. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is making sure that happens. The ... Read more
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A provision of the federal law H.1, aka the One Big Beautiful Bill, allows taxpayers to receive a dollar-for-dollar tax credit on your federal income tax of up to $1700 for contributing to a state-based 501c3 organization classified as a Scholarship Granting Organization (SGO). The SGO then uses that money to, as its name suggests, ... Read more
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Of the 32 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 13 and opposition of 2 with 3 being of interest.
There are no hearings in the Senate this week.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support | HB1804 | consolidating school administrative units, making chief school administrator jobs an elected position, and defining education roles. | Education Policy and Administration | Mon 2/23 | 1:00 PM | GP Room 232 | This bill: I. Consolidates the authority and duties of school administrative units. II. Empowers school boards to develop, evaluate, and implement school curriculums. III. Makes chief school administrators elected officials. |
| Of Interest | HB1790 | relative to involuntary admissions for certain individuals with a substance use disorder. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Mon 2/23 | 9:00 AM | GP Room 158 | This bill includes substance use disorder in the definition of mental illness for the purpose of evaluating whether a person may be involuntary admitted. |
| Support | HB1071 | repealing immunity afforded health care facilities when following directives adopted in response to the COVID-19 state of emergency. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Mon 2/23 | 11:00 AM | GP Room 158 | This bill repeals immunity afforded health care facilities when following directives adopted in response to the COVID-19 state of emergency. |
| Support | HB1706 | repealing the refugee resettlement program in the department of health and human services and prohibiting expenditure of state funds on refugee resettlement. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Mon 2/23 | 1:00 PM | GP Room 158 | This bill repeals the refugee resettlement program in the department of health and human services and prohibits expenditure of state funds on refugee resettlement. |
| Support | HB1241 | relative to the calculation of income for purposes of support orders in divorce proceedings. | Children and Family Law | Tue 2/24 | 10:00 AM | GP Room 230 | This bill amends the definition of gross income for purposes of support orders in divorce proceedings, and prohibits gross income calculations from using overtime compensation, secondary employment earnings, or other income derived from sources outside of primary employment. |
| Support | HB1378 | relative to parental access to a minor child’s electronic medical records. | Children and Family Law | Tue 2/24 | 11:00 AM | GP Room 230 | This bill provides parents of minor children full access to their minor children’s medical record except under certain circumstances. |
| Support | HB1565 | relative to the penalty for false reports of suspected abuse and neglect made to the division for children, youth, and families. | Children and Family Law | Tue 2/24 | 1:30 PM | GP Room 230 | This bill provides that reports of suspected abuse and neglect may include the name of the person making the report and that a person who makes a false report maliciously or with the intent to cause harm shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. The bill also creates a private right of action for civil damages against a person who makes a false report of suspected abuse or neglect. |
| Support | HB1757 | prohibiting the remedy of alimony for marriages that existed for six years or less. | Children and Family Law | Tue 2/24 | 2:00 PM | GP Room 230 | This bill prohibits a court from ordering alimony for marriages that lasted 6 years or less. |
| Support | HB1305 | enabling the use of telehealth to deliver veterinary care. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 2/24 | 11:00 AM | GP Room 153 | This bill enables the use of telehealth to deliver veterinary care. |
| Support | HB1117 | relative to the right of licensed health care providers to freely communicate with patients, colleagues, and the public about medical information, emerging therapies, and treatment options. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 2/25 | 9:30 AM | GP Room 158 | This bill provides that a health care provider shall not be subject to disciplinary action, professional sanction, or civil or criminal liability for communicating with a patient, another provider, or the public about emerging medical research, experimental treatments, innovative therapies, or off-label uses of medications, provided the communication is made in good faith and not knowingly false or misleading. |
| Of Interest | HB1449 | limiting times vaccine clinics may operate at schools and requiring parents or legal guardians to be present with their child during the administration of vaccinations at such a clinic. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 2/25 | 10:30 AM | GP Room 158 | This bill prohibits the operation of a vaccination clinic at schools during school hours and requires the parent or legal guardian of a child be present during the administration of any vaccination to their child at such a clinic. |
| Support | HB1797 | relative to eligibility for public assistance, including the New Hampshire employment program, family assistance program, and SNAP. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 2/25 | 1:00 PM | GP Room 158 | This bill: I. Directs the department of health and human services to submit a waiver to the United States Department of Agriculture to prohibit the purchase of candy and soft drinks with SNAP benefits. II. Strengthens work requirements for SNAP eligibility. III. Directs the department of health and human services to enter into data-sharing agreements with other state agencies to verify SNAP benefit eligibility. IV. Directs the department to verify eligibility of enrollees that make exclusively out-of-state purchases. V. Prohibits the department from using their discretion to set more lenient standards for SNAP eligibility or exemptions than those outlined in federal law. |
| Oppose | HB1456 | repealing the legislature’s declaration of authority over public education. | Judiciary | Wed 2/25 | 10:30 AM | GP Room 230 | This bill repeals the legislature’s declaration of authority over public education. |
| Of Interest | HB1489 | relative to interstate depositions and discovery. | Judiciary | Wed 2/25 | 11:00 AM | GP Room 230 | This bill makes changes to the appointment of deposition commissioners and the uniform foreign depositions law. |
| Support | HB1591 | relative to the release of escrowed funds by the judicial branch. | Judiciary | Wed 2/25 | 1:30 PM | GP Room 230 | This bill requires the release of escrowed funds by the judicial branch upon receipt of a final order, and provides for penalties for noncompliance. |
| Oppose | HB1593 | relative to nondiscrimination due to disability. | Judiciary | Wed 2/25 | 2:00 PM | GP Room 230 | This bill codifies the language of section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which prohibits discrimination based on disability by recipients and providers of state or federal financial assistance. The bill also codifies remedies available under section 505, which includes reasonable attorneys’ fees for certain prevailing parties. |
| Support | HB1611 | relative to the taking of private property. | Judiciary | Fri 2/27 | 9:00 AM | GP Room 230 | This bill modifies the state’s authority to seize privately owned property during a declared emergency by limiting applicable circumstances, specifying procedural requirements, mandating documentation, and revising compensation provisions. |
| Support | HR41 | instructing the house of representatives to investigate whether grounds exist to impeach Executive Councilor Karen Liot Hill. | Judiciary | Fri 2/27 | 9:30 AM | GP Room 230 | This resolution instructs the house of representatives to investigate whether grounds exist to impeach Executive Councilor Karen Liot Hill. |
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Steven Spielberg is estimated to have assets worth between 5 and 7 billion. This makes him one of the richest SOBs in Hollywood, but thanks to years of voting for, funding, and supporting Democrat campaigns, can he no longer “afford” to live there? While ET wanted very much to phone home and then go home, ... Read more
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The latest Epstein email release is a lot to take in. Each new piece of information has the effect of weights on our shoulders and trauma in our hearts. The details are more than most people can bear. I’m a retired sex offender counselor who would like to offer a few bits of advice to ... Read more
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New Hampshire’s DOJ has had enough of vehicle inspections and the garages still pushing them, Colbert blames the FCC for his own nervous lawyers, and Moms Rising New Hampshire doesn’t know what they are talking about. aj@neweenglandtake.com Join the Substack to support the show: https://newenglandtake.com NH DOJ, “Vehicle Inspection Program Public Guidance”: https://www.doj.nh.gov/news-and-media/vehicle-inspection-program-public-guidance?fbclid=IwdGRleAQDDJhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEex6Zq7XdvYFJb8TI6NS255pGNkR5eGRF6YLP260o8dbziJktAKLmYqW0SWmM_aem_Qz8X0UoESooYrZy8bjX_HQ NBC News, “Stephen Colbert ... Read more
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The professional anti-ICE left keeps trying to appeal to the empathy of women, moms, maybe the odd beta-male, and at least a few centrist Christians, on the question of immigrant children or immigrants with children. The Children! According to Kelly, that plan centers on shaping public reaction to immigration enforcement, particularly deportation operations. “And the ... Read more
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I’d like to invite past commenters who were driven off by trolling to come back into the ‘Grok Comment ‘ pool. I turned guest commenting off (again). I wanted it to work. Let more people have the opportunity to remark. But all it did was collect shit and flies. Not every guest commenter was an ... Read more
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A proposed amendment to Act 73, Vermont’s sweeping education reform law, would create a single, unified statewide school district in which parents would allocate tuition dollars to any public school. The proposal was introduced by sponsor Steve Heffernan (R-Addison) on Wednesday afternoon in Senate Education. The amendment would move Vermont toward a Unified School System designed to ... Read more
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Note: The featured image is just a royalty-free image of a box of candy and in no way represents the context of the title or any claim by Florida or anyone else. A Florida report on 46 popular candy products found unacceptable levels of arsenic in 28 of them. The state has taken the Make ... Read more
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The walls are crashing down, or maybe more accurately, the Piper wants to get paid, and two of the Socialist poster children, who hoodwinked their constituents, are caught in the spotlight, and neither is looking very good. Brandon Johnson and Zohran Mamdani were supposed to be the answer to the problems created by their predecessors, ... Read more
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As a good friend and blogging peer of Rick Olson, the President of the Londonderry Fish and Game Club [LFGC], I have long been aware of the false accusations against them and the defamation suit they filed in response. Some local Litchfield residents who bought a home near a gun club that had been there ... Read more
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And Now We Know Why NH’s AG Would Have “Tanked” The Automobile Inspections Case. This post follows up on our post, Did New Hampshire’s Attorney General Deliberately ‘Tank’ The Automobile Inspections Case?, where we discussed the Attorney General’s failure to properly defend the lawsuit brought by Gordon-Darby to block a law scheduled to go into effect ... Read more
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Faith, Conviction & ProLifeStickers.com This week on The Ever-Living Podcast, Jason and Jessica sit down with Gabriel Dionisi for a thoughtful conversation on faith, culture, and living with conviction in a divided world. They explore personal transformation, worldview foundations, and how everyday believers can engage tough topics with clarity and courage. It’s honest, practical, and ... Read more
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Welcome to my ongoing review of questions challenging my “journalistic integrity” (except I’m not a journalist), in which I use their challenge to challenge theirs right back. Part one addressed the first of five “concerns” the lovely people at NewsGuard (that’s not sarcasm) expressed over content published at GraniteGrok.com. The individuals I deal with are very professional; ... Read more
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If you haven’t already heard about HB1811 as a bill to support (repealing statutory immunization requirements for children), you haven’t been paying attention to memos from groups like RebuildNH and Health Freedom NH. It’s a vax policy bill that would end mandatory childhood vaccines that Team Red failed to unify behind (OTP 155-192). Who are ... Read more
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