Concord Monitor

At least I use my real name….

March 15, 2013

All of us who blog at GraniteGrok expect comments on the things we write, hoping to engage folks in thinking, in discussion, in exchanging ideas.  There is only one rule at GG and that is whatever we write – and whatever commenters post – must be family friendly.  That means, if your children – or [ Read more ]

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Anti-Hunting Sentiments Are Alive And Well In The Granite State

December 6, 2012

“Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” —Genesis 1:26 (NIV) Yet another anti-hunting hit piece. The [ Read more ]

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All we heard from the Dems was caterwauling about “Settled Law!” Consistency is not their strong suit

November 10, 2012

All we heard from these clowns the last two years was things like don’t you DARE touch the gay marriage law – the Legislature already “settled” the issue.  How DARE you Republicans even consider revisiting that law! They adopted the mantra that once done, always done when it comes to the law.  Sure, the body [ Read more ]

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Crybaby Concord Monitor Whines

July 7, 2012

“Let the other guys do the crybaby stuff…Go for the laughs.” —Rip Torn Yesterday Morning, two Concord Monitor Reporters, Ann Marie Yimmons and Matt Spolar, were excluded (Barred – their word, not mine) from a press conference held by House Speaker Bill O’Brien. The topic “de jour” was a discussion of  reforms to the ebt system [ Read more ]

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The Corruption of the Concord Monitor

June 19, 2012

Or, “Why the Mainstream Media Sucks.” Right here in New Hampshire!

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Anonymous Allegations?

May 24, 2012

Over at the Concord Monitor web site, someone going by the name of ItsaRepublic, has been doing some very heavy lifting for GraniteGrok.  They have gone to bat for us on our investigation of Public Employees who have been using the Monitor’s web site, during office hours, at taxpayer expense.  Not exactly a friendly environment [ Read more ]

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Concord Monitor Takes a Stand – When It’s A Republican

May 20, 2012

We’ve been reporting the theft of services by an SEIU Union Chapter VP and NH DES employee Richard de Seve for months as we struggle with the Department of Environmental Services and the State’s IT department, and their resistance to part with data, in response to our Right to Know Requests about state employees using [ Read more ]

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Second Amendment humor, courtesy of the Concord Monitor!

May 10, 2012

This is so funny!  What appears below is a column from today’s New Hampshire government-newspaper, the Concord Monitor. I glanced at the top of the top of the column and though “Hey, great! My friend—the excellent Rep. JR Hoell—has written an interesting piece about 2nd Amendment concealed carry for everyone!” So I happily read the [ Read more ]

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Concord Monitor says more food stamps needed, assumes Obama re-election

April 30, 2012

If President Obama is re-elected, as the April 25, 2012 Concord Monitor editorial “Cutting food stamps to feed the rich” apparently assumes, then it is right, the Ryan budget won’t provide all the food stamps, unemployment, and other assistance that will be needed. The Concord Monitor goes on to pooh pooh the idea of “Cadillac [ Read more ]

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Concord Monitor Wont Cover it, But They’ll help Cover It up.

April 23, 2012

There is Free Press and then there is Free Speech.  And then there is The Concord Monitor.  The Concord Monitor would like you to believe that it is a defender of both Free Press and Free Speech.   But if that were true, they would not be deleting comments that include links to posts at GraniteGrok.  [ Read more ]

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Media Irresponsibility

April 15, 2012

The editorial in Friday’s The Citizen, reprinted from the Concord Monitor was totally irresponsible.  So, I submitted the following as community commentary to The Citizen, and something similar to the Concord Monitor.  I doubt they will publish my input: +++++++++++++ Please check the attribution of The Citizen’s April 13, 2012 editorial, titled, “A budget to [ Read more ]

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Spec Bowers – Silly Editorial About O’Brien

April 8, 2012

(Excellent editorial by State Rep Spec Bowers to the Concord Monitor. Copied from Spec’s Facebook page) Spec Bowers Op Ed;  Silly Editorial About O’Brien The Monitor’s April 5 editorial about House Speaker Bill O’Brien is one of the sillier ones of the last year and a half. It reminds me of the old legal adage, [ Read more ]

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Richard de Seve – gee, there’s more! Student reviews…..and he’s a Truther???

April 2, 2012

OK, given how much GraniteGrok has been blogging about Richard de Seve and his political activities on the taxpayer dime, it was finally logical to Google him and see “have we been able to get our investigation out there?”.  The answer is yes: the two highest rated search items are about his LinkIn profile – [ Read more ]

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Another NH State Employee Wasting Your Time And Money?

March 29, 2012

Have you been following the tragic tale? It’s a dog bites man story.  State agency appears to have an IT policy it can’t or wont enforce, the result of which is that people who blog for a hobby are the only ones with any hope of keeping public employees from wasting your time and tax [ Read more ]

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Isn’t it Time We Enforced the State’s IT Policies

March 15, 2012

Democrats like to manage society, ever more so when they believe it has misbehaved.  So here’s an idea the left ought to embrace with both left arms. Because it is against state policy to use state computers for activities outside their intranet, like reading online news or–heaven forbid whiling the day away commenting on news [ Read more ]

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So, what does the State of NH say about “Using The Internet to Sell his Political Agenda On Your Time?”

March 6, 2012

A follow on to Steve’s post: “Is A NH Public Employee Using The Internet to Sell his Political Agenda On Your Time?” Well, let’s start with the easy stuff.  First, many companies of “size” have strict regulations about what employees can and cannot do with computer equipment – and Internet access using that equipment. After [ Read more ]

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Is A NH Public Employee Using The Internet to Sell his Political Agenda On Your Time?

March 5, 2012

What does  a New Hampshire Public employee who is also an SEIU chapter Vice President and shop steward do while working on the taxpayer dime?  If your name is Richard de Seve, (Dick de Seve, or DickNH, from Gilmanton, NH, VP of the Gilmanton Conservation Commission) you may be posting comments to the Concord Monitor [ Read more ]

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Concord Monitor Fisking: Several Bad Ideas On Hunting, Wildlife

February 14, 2012

 ”As for editorial content, that’s the stuff you separate the ads with.”  —Lord Thomson of Fleet On Thursday, February 9, 2012 the Concord Monitor‘s Dan Williams wrote an opinion column entitled, Several bad ideas on Hunting, wildlife Williams contacted me personally to talk about his upcoming story. When I read the column, however, I didn’t recognize [ Read more ]

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The Concord Monitor’s Integrity Deficit

February 13, 2012

“I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.” —E. B. White On Thursday February 9, the Concord Monitor ran an opinion column written by Dan Williams regarding several pieces of Legislation pending in Concord affecting Hunting, Fishing and Trapping.  Aside from writing for [ Read more ]

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Pathetic journalistic lies from the Concord Monitor

February 5, 2012

What a sad bunch of foolish, prejudiced people are running the Concord Monitor these days. They seem to bend over ever more readily to lick the shoes of their friends in the New Hampshire Democrat Party. Here’s the latest prevarication from the Monitor, which every day looks more and more like nothing more than a [ Read more ]

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Concord Monitor’s Editorial Shell Games

May 3, 2011

“For a moment, at least, a nation united” the headline informs in the Concord Monitor. The monitor editorial continues on reflecting on the losses born out of 9/11, on the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq and how our lives have changed since, all of which is very stoic and reflective.  But leave it to those [ Read more ]

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If There’s Grass On The Field Play Ball

December 9, 2010

We could call most Democrats a contradiction wrapped in an enigma but to be honest there is nothing enigmatic about them. They are just a contradiction. And while we could give them some small credit for not always understanding their own contradictions, acting as they often do solely on feelings and impulse, when they have their own newspaper and use it to propagandize the subscriber-ship with bovine bloviations, we can offer only pity.

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Bass Finder

March 6, 2010

 A recent ‘Monitor Staff’ editorial takes the occasion of the Charlie Bass candidacy to take a pot shot at the Tea party movement while asking who Charlie Bass really is?  We know who he is.  He’s a Blue Dog Republican.  But the Monitor needs to fill column inches so they manage to infer through implied [ Read more ]

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