The Manchester Free Press

Thursday • November 27 • 2025

Vol.XVII • No.XLVIII

Manchester, N.H.

Are Real Estate Investments in Portugal Overvalued? A Strategic Look at Market Sustainability

Granite Grok - Tue, 2025-05-13 10:48 +0000
On Why Overvaluation Concerns Are Emerging Real estate investments in Portugal have seen rapid growth in recent years, drawing interest from both local and international investors. The commercial sector, in particular, has shown resilience, supported by stable yields, limited high-quality supply, and strong tenant demand in Lisbon, Porto, and other strategic regions. However, as prices ... Read more

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Warner: Property Appraisals Increase By Hundreds of Thousands

Granite Grok - Tue, 2025-05-13 10:00 +0000
A recent post on the “What’s Happening Hartford” Facebook page asked town members if their new property appraisals increased and by how much.  As the answers came in the numbers were staggering as were many of the complaints. The original poster (OP) stated their property assessed value increase by $10,000 which led to a slew ... Read more

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Scaer: Bombshell on Boy Who Dominated in Girls Sports

Granite Grok - Tue, 2025-05-13 02:00 +0000
In February 2024, the girls’ basketball team for Collegiate Charter School of Lowell, Massachusetts, forfeited a game against Kipp Academy of Lynn after three girls were hurt by a boy playing for the Kipp Academy girls’ team. The boy was 6 feet tall and had facial hair. The video of the boy manhandling the girls ... Read more

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Podcast: Right Side Up 5-12-2025

Granite Grok - Tue, 2025-05-13 00:00 +0000
This week, we discuss business owners’ dissatisfaction with leadership in Burlington and Montpelier and the promise of natural gas. Authors’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. Follow these links for current and past content for the entire podcast lineup. Agree? Disagree? ... Read more

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SALT in Speaker’s Wounds: Budget Bill Threatened by NY Republicans

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-05-12 22:00 +0000
House Speaker Mike Johnson is being pressured on multiple fronts in his efforts to pass a budget reconciliation bill by Independence Day.  Not only is he being pressed by fiscal hawks to make deep spending cuts to cover tax breaks, but he’s also being threatened by blue-state Republicans demanding higher tax deductions to offset their states’ high-tax policies. ... Read more

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MacDonald: NH’s # 2 Blah Blah Blah

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-05-12 20:00 +0000
There are few more enthusiastic boosters for all the great things about New Hampshire than me. I share the data, polls, research, results, and whatever the mighty beast of the internet coughs up. I moved here from someplace else 35 years ago and have been a superfan ever since. As a superfan, I have also ... Read more

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DN Miner Cloud Mining: Helping You Easily Double Your Cryptocurrency Investment

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-05-12 18:11 +0000
The global crypto asset market is accelerating the compliance process. DNMiner, a cloud mining platform fully licensed and regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), takes “low threshold, high transparency, and strong compliance” as its core advantages to provide investors with safe and efficient crypto asset allocation solutions, helping users to easily enter the ... Read more

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O’Keefe: Real ID Is Not About Keeping You Safe

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-05-12 18:00 +0000
Today, after nearly two decades of implementation and delays, the federal government’s new identification requirements for traveling by plane domestically or entering federal buildings technically go into effect. This federally-compliant ID card—known as Real ID—can only be attained with specific records and documents laid out by the federal government. It’s labeled by a black or ... Read more

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Cardello: How Many New Yorkers Think Letitia Is Worth $10M

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-05-12 16:00 +0000
About as many who thought it was money well spent on The Roosevelt Hotel. Letitia James, the Attorney General of New York, is a bitter, angry woman who got elected on the singular pledge to make Donald Trump’s life miserable by tying him up in a lengthy public trial. She fulfilled her commitment with the ... Read more

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Senate Gold Standard – May 15, 2025

N.H. Liberty Alliance - Mon, 2025-05-12 14:21 +0000

(white) goldstandard-05-15-25-S.pdf
(gold) goldstandard-05-15-25-S-y.pdf

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Klar: Are Courts Doing Enough To Protect Public Health?

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-05-12 14:00 +0000
A lawsuit in late March that awarded Georgia man John Barnes $2.1 billion in damages looked like another piece of good news for one of the tens of thousands of litigants against Bayer, the agrochemical giant that since 2018 has owned Monsanto, maker of the popular weedkiller, Roundup. Glyphosate is used widely as an integral ... Read more

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MacDonald: But Cotton Picking Is a “Good Paying” Job, Rep. Crockett

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-05-12 12:00 +0000
Sandy ‘Gulf Stream’ Cortez is going to have to up her game. I know, the Jet Setting Neiman Marxist, birth mother of the economy-crushing Green New Deal, is emitting tons of unnecessary carbon to fight our oligarchs in front of crowds paid for by hers. The handmaiden media loves it. And she’s always been something ... Read more

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Banfield: NH DHHS Testifies In Opposition of Parental Rights Legislation

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-05-12 10:00 +0000
On May 6, 2025, Jenny O’Higgins, and her colleague at the Department of Health and Human Services, testified at a public hearing on HB446. Their testimony can be accessed here at 2:35:00. As you will hear at the beginning of their testimony, Ms. O’Higgins stated that she was there on behalf of DHHS to oppose HB446. You can ... Read more

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Klar: I ran from the law – to run a rural farm in Vermont

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-05-12 02:00 +0000
Mark Twain’s famous satire “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” chronicles the fictitious time travel of an engineer named Hank Morgan from East Hartford, Connecticut. After being struck in the head with a crowbar, he awakens in sixth-century England and works his way into King Arthur’s favor by use of his modern knowledge. I ... Read more

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Podcast: Don’t Tell Me Where to Live

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-05-12 00:00 +0000
Join us for a look at another week in Vermont politics. Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. Please like, follow, or subscribe to The ‘Grok on Rumble and YouTube for early access to new episodes of GrokTALK!, Right Side Up, and Replays of Granite ... Read more

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Cardello: It Has Nothing To Do With Tariffs, Illegal Immigration, Or Government Waste

Granite Grok - Sun, 2025-05-11 22:00 +0000
The Democrats are suffering from their own fabricated pandemic, TDS-47. Trump Derangement Syndrome 47 is a stronger mutation than TDS-45. It attacks Democrats’ minds, preventing them from thinking with any form of common sense, and impairs their emotional stability, causing them to spout vulgarities like Tourette’s Syndrome. There is no cure other than the elimination ... Read more

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Scaer: Tell the NH Senate to Defund the Office of the Child Advocate

Granite Grok - Sun, 2025-05-11 20:00 +0000
Cassandra Sanchez and Lissa Mascio from the NH Office of the Child Advocate testified in opposition to HB10, a parental bill of rights, in the Senate Education Committee on April 1. They said some things I am seriously troubled by that I’m afraid weren’t noticed by the senators on the committee. Here is an excerpt ... Read more

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Bill Hearings for Week of May 12, 2025

N.H. Liberty Alliance - Sun, 2025-05-11 19:24 +0000
  • These are the most liberty-critical hearings for the week
  • Click on the bill number to read the bill.
  • Click on the committee name to email the committee your thoughts.

Of the 2 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 0 and opposition of 0 with 0 being of interest.
Of the 17 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 4 and opposition of 1 with 0 being of interest.

Position Bill Title Committee Day Time Room State Analysis
Support HB60 relative to the termination of tenancy at the expiration of the tenancy or lease term. Commerce Tue 5/13 9:30 AM SH Room 100 This bill adds the expiration of the term of the lease or tenancy if over 6 months as grounds for an eviction.
Support HB475 relative to the reductions from the default budget for official ballot town meetings. Election Law and Municipal Affairs Tue 5/13 9:40 AM LOB Room 103 This bill alters the definition of default budget to include salary and benefit reductions which occur as a result of position turnover.
Support HB613 relative to enabling local political subdivisions to vote and set a reduced default budget option. Election Law and Municipal Affairs Tue 5/13 9:55 AM LOB Room 103 This bill enables local political subdivisions that have adopted the official ballot referendum form of meeting to adopt provisions for an annual choice for a reduced default budget.
Oppose HB387 relative to balloons being released into the air. Judiciary Tue 5/13 1:30 PM SH Room 100 This bill prohibits the release of lighter-than-air balloons into the air and establishes penalties for violations of this prohibition.
Support HB376 specifying that library user information exempted from disclosure in the right-to-know law includes information regarding library cards and library membership status. Judiciary Thu 5/15 1:40 PM SH Room 100 This bill exempts library card and library membership files and information from disclosure under the right-to-know law.

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The Libertarian Party is on the Verge of ‘Full Collapse,’ Party Chairman Tells Board

Granite Grok - Sun, 2025-05-11 18:00 +0000
In a Friday message to board members of the Libertarian National Committee that oversees the United States Libertarian Party, party Chairman Steven Nekhaila wrote that “This board may very well be the last one standing between the Libertarian National Committee and full collapse.” If Nekhaila’s assessment of the situation — which he wrote is backed by a ... Read more

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MacDonald: Is the Pandemic Bloom Off The Vermont Rose

Granite Grok - Sun, 2025-05-11 16:00 +0000
Vermont’s population declined by 0.03 percent between 2023 and 2024. That’s 215 fewer people. About the same number of homeless people that were reported added in New Hampshire in the same period – an anecdotal observation with no connection, but a reader saw the decline on the Vermont side and wondered if it might be ... Read more

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