5 August 2008 - Granite Grok

August 5, 2008

So the NH Dems say they can’t do anything about the State budget?

Well, the campaigns are heating up here in NH as Primary Election Day, Sept 9, is fast approaching and both parties are starting to wind up the base and the competitors.  Recently, one of the local papers (Laconia Daily Sun) reported on both the Republican and Democrat gatherings.  In it, the reporter had news on …

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Professional or just a union worker?

It’s always for the teachers union children! Most peoples’ reactions to the word "teacher" is the kindly school marm (apologies to the other gender) smiling broadly at her little charges, apple on the desk (at least, that’s my reaction).  For the individual teacher, for the most part, it works. However, teachers unions, it’s a different …

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Bosse Targets Latte Welfare

. We’ve been slightly remiss on reporting each of 2nd District Republican candidate Grant Bosse’s "50 Days, 50 Ways to Cut Federal Spending" proposals as presented thus far, but we just couldn’t let his most recent idea pass without sharing it with ‘Grok readers. While it may appear conservatives have given up on defunding public TV and …

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We’re from the government and you think we’re here to do WHAT?

And you thought government was here to SERVE… There was a story in all the papers over the weekend about the end of "trashcan mail" for summer residents of an island off the coast of Maine. SUTTON ISLAND, Maine—The U.S. Postal Service has ended a decades-old tradition in which mail was delivered to this small …

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