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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Get yourself some memes, my brothers and sisters. It’s Friday. The end of the week. .Time for the Friday meme thing. Can I get an Amen! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... Read more

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How media denial and ideological capture bury women’s safety—and my fight at the NH Statehouse to stop it. The Transgender Lie Is Killing People—And the Media Is Helping Bury the Bodies Two mass shootings in one week. Two biological males lost in delusions of womanhood. Two public massacres that shattered families and communities. And a ... Read more

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Today, on the Morning Update, the percentage of criminal convictions of “Deportees” is the conversation the left is pining for, the latest thing to slither out of their progressive narrative mills, and I thought we should contribute. Ep. 111 Links: Check Out More Morning Update Here! – Also available on Rumble, Instagram/Reels, and Steve’s Substack. ... Read more

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Allowing families to choose their school is fantastic for education, something we fully embrace in Croydon, as one of the state’s pioneering districts in school choice. Open Enrollment has the potential to be a great advancement. But unfortunately, its proposed design will lead to terrible unintended consequences. In Croydon, it will most likely lead to ... Read more

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Attorney Diana Fenton has been nominated to be New Hampshire’s new Child Advocate.  If confirmed by the Executive Council on March 2nd, she would be in charge of independent oversight of all child-serving systems in the state, with particular focus on DCYF. Her ties to the family court, the attorney general’s office, and DCYF, as ... Read more

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This week, on Right Side Up, we discuss solar siting, the Act 181 land grab, and the Education nightmare. 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 to Say, We Want to Hear It. Comment or submit ... Read more

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Vermont, once famous for its dairy – I dig a good Vermont Cheddar – is getting cheesy in other ways. Progressive legislators, some of them elected as actual progressives, are always looking for ways to steal money from people. Two facts or rules of progressive political life. First, when it comes to the Elected Left ... Read more

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Rep. Kristin Noble’s HB 1268, the Home Education Freedom Act, is one of the strongest pro-liberty home education reforms introduced in our state. This legislation ends burdensome state requirements like mandatory notice, portfolios, and end-of-year evaluations for homeschooling families. Instead, it ensures that New Hampshire treats homeschool education with respect and trust, giving parents the authority and flexibility ... Read more

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House Bill 1792 would prohibit the teaching of ‘Marxist analyses’ in public schools. But the entire public school system is funded on the basis of Marxist philosophy: https://granitegrok.com/blog/2021/10/the-accidental-marxist https://granitegrok.com/blog/2021/10/the-accidental-marxist-part-2 https://granitegrok.com/new-england/nh/2025/01/groucho-marxism Interestingly, the bill would prohibit discussions in public schools about how those schools are funded. ‘Inconsistent’ doesn’t even begin to describe this situation.  I don’t ... Read more

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Watching coverage of rioting occurring in several U.S. cities, I have been disheartened by the sheer number of women, both young and old, engaging in extremely vulgar and violent assaults on officers appointed to protect our country and keep the peace!  I completely support peaceful protest, but what I’ve seen daily is far from peaceful. ... Read more

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Today, on the morning update, it’s a problem we’re familiar with here in NH, echoed in the left-wing dumpster fire doing business as California. Nick Shirley is on the left Coast, and guess what? Ep. 109 Links: Check Out More Morning Update Here! – Also available on Rumble, Instagram/Reels, and Steve’s Substack. Follow ‘Grok on ... Read more

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There are three items in this update. The first two are about the FOIA lawsuit and the third item is, primarily, a critique of a recent article in The New York Times about an upsurge in interest in the case of USS Liberty. Court Approves Amicus Brief Filing On February 10, 2026, the 9th US Circuit Court of ... Read more

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