The Manchester Free Press

Monday • June 8 • 2026

Vol.XVIII • No.XXIV

Manchester, N.H.

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News – Politics – Opinion – Podcasts
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SMITH: Who Should Sell Rosenwald’s House?

1 hour 57 min ago

It’s already common knowledge that Rosenwald is retiring from the senate, and the enemy camp has selected Telerski to be her replacement.  Queen Sharon called her and Ruth Ward up to her podium to be recognized and receive clocks as retirement gifts and address the rest of the senate.  I expected the usual themes a ... Read more

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Monday Memes

3 hours 57 min ago

Reminder: Memes 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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ROPER: The Devastating Legacy of Democrat Leadership

5 hours 57 min ago

Both Vermont’s Senate President Pro-Tem Philip Baruth (D/P-Chittenden) and Speaker of the House Jill Krowinski (D-Burlington), the top leaders in the state legislature, announced that they will be retiring after sixteen and fourteen years, respectively. And, not to put too fine a point on it, they, and more importantly the entire clown car they’ve been ... Read more

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Morning Update: Karl Marx on Skis

8 hours 57 min ago

Today, on your Morning Update, we celebrate the 26th birthday of “your kids won’t know snow,” with some good news for snow and a reminder why it doesn’t matter how much or how little snow we get. This Climate thing has nothing to do with the weather. I’m a bit sleepy and hoarse in this ... Read more

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KLAR: ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water? What Is the EPA Up To?

10 hours 57 min ago

Much controversy has surrounded the May 18 announcement by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of proposed rule changes to Biden administration regulations that direct the cleanup of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, in Americans’ drinking water. Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., said he strongly supports the EPA’s new tack. “I’ve read ... Read more

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CORNERSTONE: Right To Try Expansion Passes and Fails

17 hours 57 min ago

HB 1735: A Setback for Right to Try in New Hampshire After several weeks of negotiations and efforts to rescue HB 1735 — championed from the start by prime sponsor Rep. Brian Cole — the Senate brought the bill to a final vote on Thursday, June 4 and passed it with an amendment that rendered it essentially ... Read more

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BEST/GATO: Marisol Fuentes – Do You See What I See

19 hours 57 min ago

Executive Councilor Janet Stevens has been chasing the Berlin Police Department through 91-A for details on domestic violence protocols followed or not followed by the police prior to Marisol Fuentes’ murder by her husband. The Berlin Police Department is denying access to records, citing privacy issues for Marisol Fuentes. Executive Councilor Janet Stevens is now ... Read more

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NJOYA: Justice Clarence Thomas, Harry Jaffa, and the Declaration of Independence

Sun, 2026-06-07 21:00 +0000

In a speech given on April 15 at the University of Texas, to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Justice Clarence Thomas explained the meaning of formal equality before the law, saying: Despite the multiplicity of laws and customs that reeked of bigotry, it was universally believed among those blacks with whom I ... Read more

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MACDONALD: Why Isn’t Woke Wu Holding a Prostate Pride Event?

Sun, 2026-06-07 18:00 +0000

People who claim they don’t like it when other people have guns should not be allowed to use the tax dollars of people they disarm to pay for armed guards. I don’t know; that just seems like a reasonable request to me. Pay for it yourself. I mean, if you are such a gift to ... Read more

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CARDELLO: Al Sharpton is a Fraud on Par with Jussie Smollett

Sun, 2026-06-07 16:00 +0000

How many times and how much longer will we be writing stories about Al Sharpton? The difference between Al and Black Lives Matter and Jussie Smollett is that we recognized early on that BLM and Smollett were shams looking to benefit from the hysteria created whenever the scourge of racism is brought out of storage. ... Read more

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KLAR: Biden-Pardoned Drug Dealer Quickly Got Back To Work

Sun, 2026-06-07 14:00 +0000

One of President Sleepy Joe’s last-minute Autopen pardon recipients, a narcotics dealer, just got arrested in Vermont…for dealing hardcore narcotics! The case reveals the travesty not just of Biden’s unpardonable pardons, but the death and destruction wrought by Democrat policies that are soft on crime and hard on public safety. Todd “Rocky” Jarvis was one ... Read more

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MACDONALD: People are Fleeing Your State in Droves and THIS is a Priority?

Sun, 2026-06-07 11:00 +0000

Two recent themes just collided in what passes for my headspace and blog-space. New York, which attracts attention because I lived there for the younger part of my life. The first thirty years, minus a few. I had the good sense to bail back in 1990, and I’ve lived in New Hampshire for the past ... Read more

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DE MAYO: Grafton County News

Sun, 2026-06-07 09:00 +0000

LTE, “Heard at the County, 5/26/26 Commissioners’ Meeting.” Grafton County Commissioners’ discussions & actions on May 26, 2026 include: Nick De Mayo, M. Ed., Sugar Hill, NH  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 ... Read more

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OPINION: Clinging To Gender Ideology Mandates Is A Losing Strategy

Sun, 2026-06-07 02:00 +0000

In a May 20 settlement that should send shockwaves through every child welfare agency still clinging to gender ideology mandates, the state’s Department of Children, Youth, and Families agreed to a permanent injunction barring officials from denying or restricting foster care licenses based on applicants’ religious beliefs about marriage, gender, or sexual relationships. The settlement in the Washington ... Read more

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The New England Take: How Do We Keep Local Government Honest and Transparent?

Sun, 2026-06-07 00:00 +0000

This week, on The New England Take, A. J. is joined by Michael Stansfield, CEO of Civic-Chain, to discuss the importance of government transparency, providing tools that make it easy for journalists and citizens to keep government honest, and how blockchain tools (like Civic-Chain) can make this happen. Learn more about Civic-Chain at https://civic-chain.com Authors’ and ... Read more

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MACDONALD: What Real Reporting Looks Like?

Sat, 2026-06-06 21:00 +0000

Way back when, GraniteGrok had a digital subscription to the Union Leader. For non-Granite Staters, this is the state’s largest (as in most widely circulated) daily print newspaper. Many years ago, it was the nation’s most conservative daily newspaper, but after William Loeb died, it modernized but didn’t change too much journalistically, not until after ... Read more

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CARDELLO: A Painful Afternoon with Jim Acosta and Don Lemon

Sat, 2026-06-06 18:00 +0000

MSNOW held a memorial service on Deadline: White House, hosted by Nicolle Wallace. The guests were Jim Acosta and Don Lemon, and you cannot put three more incompetent “news” people on the same screen. The deceased was Scott Pelley, who was fired from 60 Minutes this week. These three exemplify the so-called journalists who believe ... Read more

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KLAR: Washington Legal Settlement Protects Christian Foster Parents

Sat, 2026-06-06 16:00 +0000

The widespread cultural divide among Americans was evident in a recent First Amendment case in Washington. A Christian foster family from the Evergreen State said their speech and religious liberties were violated by state policies demanding they employ gender pronouns and affirm the sexual orientation of their foster charges. The resulting settlement seeks to protect ... Read more

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OPINION: The Case For A Smaller, Humbler Federal Reserve

Sat, 2026-06-06 14:00 +0000

For two decades, the Federal Reserve has behaved less like a central bank and more like the nation’s emergency room physician, trauma counselor and part-time life coach. Markets sneeze, the Fed reaches for liquidity. Congress overspends, the Fed absorbs the debt. Asset bubbles inflate, then burst, and somehow the cure is always another round of ... Read more

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MACDONALD: Pussy Cat ‘Offsets’

Sat, 2026-06-06 11:00 +0000

Are you familiar with the term “offsets”? It is a consideration or amount that diminishes or balances the effect of a contrary one. It is also the amount or distance by which something is “out of line.” For the past forty years, give or take, the word has been used in place of “indulgence.” “A ... Read more

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