The Manchester Free Press

Thursday • July 31 • 2025

Vol.XVII • No.XXXI

Manchester, N.H.

Cardello: Texas Tragedy Is Also A Miracle

Granite Grok - Tue, 2025-07-08 02:00 +0000
Mother Nature showed her ugly side on Saturday night and Sunday morning and claimed over 68 lives in the small town of Kerrville, Texas. As the rains came down at over 12 inches per hour, all that water had just one path to take. The water flowed into the Guadalupe River near San Antonio, and ... Read more

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GrokTALK!: Not What I had Planned

Granite Grok - Tue, 2025-07-08 00:00 +0000
Gremlins ate my podcast, but I salvaged some of the conversation I recorded an excellent interview with Phil Kerpen from American Commitment last week about the One Big Beautiful Bill, and could not get it from recording to publication. There were insurmountable technical issues. It was such a crash and burn that the AI-generated transcript ... Read more

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Smith: Spotlight Of Positivity; Victoria Sullivan

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-07-07 21:00 +0000
Let’s first give a hat tip to Kevin Landrigan for recognizing Victoria Sullivan’s senatorial accomplishments as a freshman, which was what inspired this article.  While I certainly want to make clear that I do NOT fancy myself in the same league as Kevin Landrigan nor do I see my Spotlight of Positivity citation as having ... Read more

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MacDonald: Own Ghislaine Maxwell’s NH Hideout for (around) $2.5 Million

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-07-07 18:00 +0000
Incorporated by the General Court on September 27, 1787, Bradford, New Hampshire, previously New Bradford and Bradfordton, is a plucky little burb with a current population of just over 1600. In 2021, the Bradford fire Chief was arrested for sexual assault, and two select board members promptly quit shortly after. Last month, a registered sex offender was ... Read more

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Monday Memes!

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-07-07 16:00 +0000
We’re fresh off the long Independence Day weekend, long for some of us, and back to work (unless you got Monday off too). Whatever your work situation, nothing starts a new week off better than memes! None of this happens without you – Please support us today!

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Richard: Citizenship and Voting Rights – A Return to Constitutional Roots 

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-07-07 14:00 +0000
The question of who gets to vote in America is not just a matter of policy but a profound reflection of our constitutional heritage. To understand voting rights, we must return to the foundational documents—the U.S. and state constitutions—and interpret them through the lens of their original intent, as the U.S. Supreme Court has reaffirmed ... Read more

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MacDonald: Protest This

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-07-07 11:00 +0000
I find it difficult to imagine that the 20% of the population with Trump Derangement Syndrome or those who are TDS “adjacent” could ever tire of expressing their ire in public. It’s more or less all they’ve got. What does your party stand for? Hating Trump! We’re not Trump. Trump is evil. He is destroying ... Read more

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Best Welcome Bonuses for New Casino Players

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-07-07 02:03 +0000
When I first started exploring online casinos, nothing caught my eye faster than no-deposit bonuses—free spins or cash just for signing up? Yes, please! But I quickly learned: not all offers are created equal. After testing dozens of casinos, I noticed most come with wagering requirements between 10x–30x. But the real gems? Those with playthroughs under ... Read more

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Klar: Is the Bull Market Over for Cows?

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-07-07 02:00 +0000
Why cattle and beef prices are slipping after a prolonged rise. Meat-eating consumers have experienced sky-high beef prices at their local grocery stores and steakhouses. After several years of drought, the US cattle herd is the smallest it has been in more than seven decades. At the same time, tariffs have added costs to many ... Read more

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Press Release: NH House Freedom Caucus Condemns Fiscally Irresponsible Budget

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-07-07 00:00 +0000
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2025 Freedom Caucus Tri-ChairsState Representative Shane Sirois State Representative Paul TerryHon. JR Hoell Media Contacts:info@NHHFC.orgHon. JR Hoell CONCORD, NH – The New Hampshire House Freedom Caucus denounces the passage of HB 2, a budget bill stuffed with provisions that jeopardize the state’s fiscal stability and burden future generations with unsustainable financial obligations. This ... Read more

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MacDonald: OBBB Kenobi, You’re Our Only Hope

Granite Grok - Sun, 2025-07-06 21:00 +0000
Several times today, you will find detailed content on some of the significant issues with New Hampshire’s One Big Beautiful Bill (or not so much), HB2. It’s got some good, bad, and ugly, and we’ve covered some of that here and here, and while there’s a lot of good, and we need to take the points we can get, ... Read more

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Rhodes: The Illusion of Freedom

Granite Grok - Sun, 2025-07-06 18:00 +0000
How Hyper‑Planning Defines Liberty in New Hampshire I have come to realize that New Hampshire, far from being a bastion of freedom, is quietly becoming a textbook case of Charles Merriam’s vision of administrative progressivism. The technocratic restructuring of government that Merriam called for in the early twentieth century—replacing representative institutions with expert-driven administrative bodies—is ... Read more

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Ortolano: Who Decides What Voices Matter in Nashua? Mayor Donchess, Apparently

Granite Grok - Sun, 2025-07-06 16:00 +0000
Mayor Jim Donchess’s recent decisions regarding Nashua’s Pride Parade have raised serious questions about his commitment to the First Amendment and his understanding of viewpoint neutrality in public forums. Taxpayer funds are being used to organize the Nashua Pride Parade, a public event that begins at City Hall Plaza and proceeds through downtown streets. Participation ... Read more

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Turcotte: Process and Substance

Granite Grok - Sun, 2025-07-06 14:00 +0000
While the last House session is still fresh in everyone’s mind, I want to take the opportunity to give my perspective on both the process and substance of HB1, HB2, and HB282. When I ran for Speaker this term, I attempted to keep the issues internally and within our caucus rather than putting it out ... Read more

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MacDonald: Pretentious Stretching

Granite Grok - Sun, 2025-07-06 11:00 +0000
Many of us are at a point where being still for too long can cause us harm. You went to sleep feeling fine, but getting up is a form of torture that can last for minutes, hours, or even days: aches, pains, twinges, loss of mobility, or range of motion. Getting old, as some like ... Read more

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Roper: Opt-Out or Else!

Granite Grok - Sun, 2025-07-06 02:00 +0000
The state will start deducting 5% of some workers’ wages unless they actively opt out of VT Saves In 2023, the Vermont legislature passed a law spearheaded by Vermont State Treasurer Mike Piecack (D-VT), Act 43 – An act relating to the establishment of VT Saves. What it does is mandate that employers with more ... Read more

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Justice 4 All: 7-2-2025

Granite Grok - Sun, 2025-07-06 00:00 +0000
Welcome back for another week of news and opinion from Jocelyn and her guest(s). Justice 4 All returns to its regular Wednesday schedule on 7/9 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. ... Read more

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MacDonald: Are Memes the ‘Page 3’ Girls of the Blogging World?

Granite Grok - Sat, 2025-07-05 21:00 +0000
In November of 1970, The Sun (UK) began posting large pictures of topless glamour models on the third page of its tabloid. Readership soared, as did the practice among other British “news” tabloids. I’m not sure how the women felt about it, but men in England were buying newspapers to see these lovely ladies and, ... Read more

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Roper: Climate Action Plan Demands Spend, Spend, Spend!

Granite Grok - Sat, 2025-07-05 20:00 +0000
’ve spent a lot of time discussing the Clean Heat Standard and Cap & Invest proposals to meet the mandates of the Global Warming Solutions Act, and have noted often but perhaps too obscurely in passing that even these monumentally expensive and disruptive programs won’t, on their own, do the job. Other programs, each with ... Read more

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Payne: Never Give Up

Granite Grok - Sat, 2025-07-05 18:00 +0000
My hero, Pastor Richard Wurmbrand, Father of the Underground Church, freed from Communist prison hell in 1967, became the founder of “Jesus to the Communist World,” now “The Voice of the Martyrs.” In his book “In God’s Underground,” he describes an ordeal of torture administered by a communist Lieutenant that has gradually become too close ... Read more

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