Sunday • April 26 • 2026
Vol.XVIII • No.XVII
Manchester, N.H.
Washington has a choice this tax season: build on policies that are already driving business investment and wage growth or return to the uncertainty that has long held employers back. As millions of Americans finalize their tax returns, the real-world impact of recent pro-growth tax reforms is coming into focus and so is the risk ... Read more
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Of the 2 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 0 and opposition of 1 with 0 being of interest.
Of the 34 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 11 and opposition of 2 with 0 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oppose | HB1010 | (New Title) relative to multi-family residential development on commercially zoned land. | Commerce | Tue 4/21 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill: I. Permits municipalities to allow multi-family dwelling units on commercially zoned land, subject to the local planning board confirming the infrastructure is adequate. II. Authorizes the local planning board to deny applications to build multi-family dwelling units on commercially zoned land in certain circumstances. III. Removes the ability for municipalities to provide an exception for requirements relative to the conversion of structures into multi-family dwelling units, and replaces such exception to permit the waiver of requirements so long as the converted dwelling unit is not altered to further violate zoning dimensional requirements. |
| Support | HB1079 | allowing accessory dwelling units to be built within or attached to certain non-conforming structures. | Commerce | Tue 4/21 | 10:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill expands the definition of accessory dwelling units to allow them to be built within nonconforming structures. |
| Support | HB1681 | relative to the definition, inspection, and local approval of tiny houses and yurts as innovative housing structures. | Commerce | Tue 4/21 | 10:30 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill establishes standards for innovative housing structures, including tiny houses, tiny houses on wheels, and yurts, authorizes their use as single-family or accessory dwellings, sets construction, inspection, and off-site manufacturing requirements, provides for municipal property tax assessment, regulates transportation, and directs related rulemaking under the state building code and wastewater and modular building statutes. |
| Oppose | HB1112 | (New Title) relative to snow removal responsibilities in lease agreements. | Commerce | Tue 4/21 | 10:45 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill, with respect to tenancies, establishes the responsibility for the removal of snow and ice in certain scenarios. |
| Support | HB1295 | relative to eligibility requirements for charitable and nonprofit housing projects. | Commerce | Tue 4/21 | 11:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill restricts eligibility requirements for charitable, nonprofit housing project tax exemptions. |
| Support | HB1374 | relative to the procedures for withdrawal from a cooperative school district. | Education | Tue 4/21 | 9:25 AM | SL Room Map Room | This bill modifies the procedure for withdrawal from a cooperative school district to allow a majority of voters in a single withdrawing district to elect to withdraw. The bill also clarifies that a supermajority of voters in the withdrawing district voting in favor of withdrawal shall constitute conclusive evidence of the withdrawal of the district. |
| Support | HB1268 | (New Title) modifying the structure and administration of home education programs. | Education | Tue 4/21 | 9:45 AM | SL Room Map Room | This bill: I. Replaces the current framework for home education programs in New Hampshire by modifying the definitions, administration, and requirements of such programs. II. Establishes a parental right to home education for his or her own child, and a right to maintain privacy in information related to the administration of their home education program. III. Establishes personal liability for any person who knowingly makes a report that alleges abuse or neglect predominantly on the basis that a child is home educated, and authorizes a right of private of action for such aggrieved families. IV. Removes cross-references to both the previous framework for home education programs and considerations of education in the assessment of child neglect. V. Directs the state board of education to repeal certain administrative rules relative to the prior framework. |
| Support | HB1195 | relative to municipal zoning requirements for child day care providers. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 4/21 | 9:45 AM | SH Room 122-123 | This bill defines child care centers for purposes of local zoning requirements and provides that, with limited exception, municipalities shall allow the operation of a child care center by right on commercially zoned land provided that the center is in compliance with child care licensing requirements of the department of health and human services. |
| Oppose | SB523 | (New Title) establishing a commission to study the implementation of a residential builder registration system. | Housing | Tue 4/21 | 10:00 AM | GP Room 231 | This bill establishes a commission to study the implementation of a residential builder registration system |
| Support | HB1124 | relative to the right to compute. | Judiciary | Tue 4/21 | 1:20 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill establishes the right to compute act. |
| Support | HB1217 | permitting classification of individuals based on biological sex under certain limited circumstances. | Judiciary | Tue 4/21 | 1:30 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill permits the public and private classification of individuals based on biological sex in multi-user lavatory facilities and in athletic competitions where biological males have a competitive advantage. The bill also establishes that these forms of separation based on biological sex do not qualify as discrimination. |
| Support | HB1299 | permitting classification of individuals based on biological sex under certain limited circumstances and establishing that certain biological sex distinctions do not qualify as discrimination. | Judiciary | Tue 4/21 | 1:40 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill: I. Permits classification of individuals based on biological sex in lavatory facilities and locker rooms, sporting competitions, and detention facilities. II. Establishes that such forms of separation based on biological sex do not qualify as discrimination. III. Requires instrumentalities of state or local government that classify lavatory facilities based on biological sex also provide a single occupancy bathroom which may be used by all regardless of biological sex or gender identity. |
| Support | HB1447 | restricting the use of certain public and private facilities on the basis of sex and establishing that such restriction does not qualify as discrimination. | Judiciary | Tue 4/21 | 1:50 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill: I. Defines the term “sex” within statutory construction. II. Requires the state of New Hampshire and all political subdivisions of the state to adopt policies that classify the use of restrooms, locker rooms, changing areas, and sleeping quarters by sex. III. Authorizes private entities to adopt the same policies relative to biological sex, and establishes that all public or private policies adopted pursuant to the section shall not constitute discrimination. |
| Support | HB155 | reducing the rate of the business enterprise tax. | Ways and Means | Wed 4/22 | 9:00 AM | SH Room 122-123 | This bill reduces the rate of the business enterprise tax for tax years ending on or after December 31, 2027. |
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In a recent installment of the Morning Update, the subject was conversion therapy and the transgender agenda. I identified the issue as finding a path to align the mind with the body and the mind with the real world. That’s what you would do if your agenda were wellness and happiness, because it is incredibly ... Read more
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Spring in Washington usually brings cherry blossoms, warmer weather, and a familiar reminder that Congress has a habit of taking on more than it can neatly resolve. This year is no different. What stands out is how much is moving at once, and how much now depends on Republicans keeping their strategy aligned with President ... Read more
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This week, on NE TAKE, A. J. hits the latest headlines: NHFPI being Democrat shills, New Hampshire Representative Ellen Read in trouble, and the latest parental disclosure bill. Authors’ and Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. Disagree, agree, Got Something ... Read more
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Maine missed the message, but that’s okay; it probably can’t get there from here. Americans, including some who live in blue states, are rejecting rank choice voting. I know, they call it ranked, but I call it rank, because it stinks. I know that because lots of Democrats want it, which means it is bad ... Read more
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Good morning, Senate Judiciary members (and all non-freshman Rs): I considered addressing all of you as “Enemies of 91A,” but thought better of it. Enclosed is an article about Hanover and the SC’s decision in the plaintiff’s favor. I’m sharing it to remind you that 91A issues are NOT just “a Nashua thing.” Team Red ... Read more
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Christianity Today recently published an article by Kristy Etheridge that was very critical of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program, something that would not be surprising, given the magazine’s evangelical Christian outlook on issues. The article—again, not surprisingly—dealt mostly with how many Christian groups, and especially the Roman Catholic Church, have spoken out against Canada’s program and ... 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 240-word text file containing a recap of our ... Read more
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Regular readers have likely heard about the grant to OUTnewcomers in Boston. News spread faster than a wildfire set by a California homeless person. Not nearly as much damage, but all parties have returned to their respective corners after throwing contradicting narratives. OUTnewcomers claims to be a pro-LGBTQ+ Migrants advocacy group. If you are new ... Read more
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The purchase of Jetro Restaurant Depot by food mega-distributor Sysco has raised concerns (and eyebrows) that increasing concentration of market power in ever fewer hands threatens free markets and will contribute to food price inflation. Like market consolidation in farming, fertilizer production, farm equipment manufacture, seed companies, and other food-related sectors, the pending merger certainly ... Read more
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The Independents with Carla Gericke is back, and this week, Carla Gericke and Mark Warden of Porcupine Real Estate discuss the latest developments in the Free State real estate market. Carla opens with some Tax Slave Day jokes. An upcoming NH Constitutional amendment wraps the show. Authors’ and Speakers’ opinions are their own and may ... Read more
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Some countries, eighty-five of them if you believe the reporting, are trying to create a climate confab cabal outside the UN’s failed COP process, and why not? COP 30 was a disaster, and how are they all supposed to tap into the trillions in wasted “climate money” if they can’t all agree on pointless targets ... Read more
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School board members in New Hampshire are elected to represent their communities. They are not appointed advisors, and they are not public relations assistants for the administration. They are elected officials entrusted by voters to ask questions, raise concerns, and communicate with the public about the operation of their schools. Recent statements by Rochester School ... Read more
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Reminder: The 50+ Memes below 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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Apparently, we aren’t supposed to worry about birth rate declines in younger women because the trend shows they are making up for it in their later years. However, the graph The New York Times shared doesn’t even begin to tell the full story. At first glance, the graph suggests that declines in American birth rates ... Read more
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Today, on the Morning Update, the topic is gun control, how one gun grabber has gotten tired of dancing around the agenda with soft language, a pro-2A response, and some thoughts about reaching the middle when it comes to why we must protect the right to self-defense. Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the ... Read more
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Ken Lund The Green Mountain State is a textbook case of how progressives employ social justice causes to drain the wallets and dreams of citizens. A growing populist backlash against a land use scheme that will steal wealth from property owners without any compensation is just the tip of the Marxist iceberg that is sinking the once-Republican ... Read more
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The marble halls of the Swedish Riksdag echoed with the footsteps of a man who carries the weight of a thousand-year throne and the hopes of a fractured nation. Reza Pahlavi did more than walk into a legislative chamber; he reclaimed a seat on the global stage. While the clerical regime in Tehran trembles behind ... Read more
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This week on Right Side Up, Mike and Alison discuss public safety, a bit of health care news, and a bit about “Green Grabbing.” Note: This week, Segment two includes video and audio, not just audio. Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the embedded video does not load. Authors’ and Speakers’ opinions are their ... Read more
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