1 August 2011 - Granite Grok

August 1, 2011

Executive Council’s Defunding of Planned Parenthood Is Sinister

“The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.” ~Margaret Sanger, founder, Planned Parenthood Kate Lancor, former Moultonborough welfare director decries the Executive council’s recent vote to defund Planned Parenthood. In her Union Leader Opposite Editorial entitled, Women need the services Planned Parenthood provides, Ms. Lancor …

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They just made it too expensive?

In Saturday’s Laconia Citizen (P.13), this little article caught my eye (emphasis mine): LACONIA — Planning Director Shanna Saunders will recommend introducing an incentive to redevelopment at the Weirs when the Planning Board meets on Tuesday evening. Earlier this year, when the City Council enacted an ordinance imposing development impact fees, it included a provision …

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Data Points – Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Corporation for Public Broadcasting salaries.  Public service does have volunteer, teeny, tiny, small, substinence, adequate, middle class, comfortable, getting up there, large, more than many of us will earn in 10 years compensation: Morning Edition host Renee Montagne: $405,140 Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon: $364,465 All Things Considered anchor Robert Siegel: $358,653 Morning Edition …

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Commerce Map

Or, "how we get theah from heah": (H/T: Gawker)

Notable Quote – Will Durant

Moral progress in history lies not so much in the improvement of the moral code as in the enlargement of the area within which it is applied. – Will Durant