Nashua taxpayers deserve full transparency, accuracy, and candor from their elected officials. Recent developments, however, raise serious concerns about how Mayor Jim Donchess and the Board of Aldermen are managing the City’s finances, and how residents are being informed about those decisions. The FY2026 budget initially presented to residents totaled $474,895,381. Yet the City now ... Read more

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The dangerously flawed structure of the New Hampshire judiciary, administrative offices of the court, judicial conduct committee, and attorney disciplinary office is finally being exposed. TL;DR: It is well past time for this, especially when we find out that a State Police Officer involved in digital investigations has been covered up for five years for ... Read more

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Today, on the Morning Update, we know Dems are crooks, from using government to steal your property to robbing you of your natural rights. But these Dems are extra crooked, and if they are doing it there, they are probably doing it wherever you are. Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the Embedded Video ... Read more

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Loyalty within municipal government often carries a cost, and Nashua taxpayers are paying it without knowing how much. A review of Nashua’s payroll shows that municipal salaries are significantly higher than both the New Hampshire state average and national benchmarks. In 2024 payroll data, the average salary for City of Nashua employees is $84,948, which ... Read more

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I can’t even call the pleasure it gives me Schadenfreude because the Handmaiden media is in complete denial over why it keeps losing audience and market share regardless of the medium. Forced to compete in the arena of not just ideas but how they get reported, the J-School elites are the band on the Titanic, ... Read more

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…and a major dose of education. The results of many primaries, and the electorate’s acceptance of candidates with low personal standards, prove that we must win the mid-term elections if we are to maintain any level of sanity and preserve what is left of America. The people are frustrated, mad, and financially stretched, which are ... Read more

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Citing 1850 Constitutional Record Unavailable to the Claremont Courts. Windham taxpayer and former Windham School Board member and occasional ‘Grok contributor ‘ Tom Murray has filed a constitutional challenge to New Hampshire’s education property-tax structure. He argues that previously unconsidered constitutional history undermines the foundation of the New Hampshire Supreme Court’s landmark Claremont school-funding decisions ... Read more

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I fired up (no pun intended) the computer this morning to be met with horrible WMUR headlines.  Beanie’s is on fire.  Think of when you (and everyone you know) learned that Notre Dame was on fire.  Not only is Beanie’s a Loudon community pillar, but they deserve everyone’s support, whether we’re Loudon locals or not.  ... Read more

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The elected elite think they are so smart. The people who elect them think they are smart for doing that. Often, the otherwise disinterested political middle thinks it’s smart to elect them as well. The result is dumb people in office doing things to you they think are smart but are not. A Colorado woman ... Read more

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In an August 5th missive to parents of students at John Stark High School, Principal Gary Dempsey outlined some curriculum changes. Sadly, most Engineering courses have been canceled. These include Welding, Small Engines, and all Physics courses. A local source tells me that the teacher quit for better pay in another district, and that Administration ... Read more

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When a young man who you know and work with praises China, socialism, and Mamdani while claiming to defend women’s rights, the contradictions expose a deeper problem: a generation raised on slogans instead of history, economics, and consistency. It started innocently enough. A casual after-work, workplace chat with an articulate young man and a friend ... Read more

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Today, on the Morning Update, Democrats have always promised all sorts of “free” things. They also claim they will tax the rich to pay for them. What they don’t tell you is that you, workaday Jane and Joe, are “The Rich” they’re talking about. Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the Embedded Video does ... Read more

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As small farmers who produce livestock get more squeezed out of the retail market, at least one state is leading a charge against federal government overreach:  New Hampshire.  Yes, “Live Free or Die.”  That state, bless ’em. The legislature passed a bill, HB396, that allows 3 beef, 5 hogs, and 10 goats and sheep to be slaughtered on-farm ... Read more

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It’s amazing the things you don’t know, not that I needed to or care, but there have been weekly protests around the Monadnock region in opposition to ICE enforcing federal law, and no one seems to have asked them about “no one being above the law”? That’s NH Media for you. The Left hands you ... Read more

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As promised, an interview with NH US Senate Candidate Scott Brown, asking questions submitted by readers. Check out the questions and the answers as we race toward the New Hampshire Primary in early September. Some pauses were removed between answers and the next question (in post-production), but no questions or answers were edited. You will ... Read more

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Stop what you are doing and contact your legislators today. Why? Farm and food freedom, that’s why. HB396 is a simple, common-sense bill the governor vetoed, and we have an excellent chance of overturning it. You’ll remember that Governor Ayotte vetoed HB396, the Food Freedom Act, which would let NH farmers sell meat they slaughter and ... Read more

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Are you familiar with Thorstein Veblen?  I guess some background is in order because a family member made a casual reference to him several years ago, and I had never heard of him.   He said Veblen was known for his 1899 book titled The Theory of the Leisure Class.  The genesis of the conversation was ... Read more

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A few decades ago, America’s moral compass was more clearly defined. There was no polarizing Yes-No, Black-and-White thinking on every meaningless topic, and the line between right and wrong was much more clearly defined. Most people understood reality and had a modicum of common sense. There certainly was no TDS where the Right saw red, ... Read more

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