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Rich Girard

Rich Girard is a well known and highly respected conservative public figure and opinion maker in southern New Hampshire.  A native of Manchester, NH, Rich has devoted nearly three decades to serving and educating the community about the critical issues in state and local politics and government.  Rich’s diverse background includes running for and holding public office, providing leadership and management for other candidates’ political campaigns, extensive experience in the public and not-for-profit sectors, being sought as a political commentator by media outlets across the region, and having started and run three businesses, including a marketing and advertising agency, broadcast media company and a financial services practice.

Biden Bones Up

Biden the Civil

The “Civility” of Joe Biden A local newspaper recently endorsed Joe Biden’s candidacy for President of these not so United States.  Candidly, that didn’t come as a surprise given the paper’s oft expressed contempt for President Donald J. Trump.  Clearly, they’re anchor tenants of the Never Trump Movement. While the paper praised President Trump’s “many …

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Manchester Charter Question: A Backdoor to School Board Taxing Authority

The question asking Manchester voters to amend the city charter seems simple enough.  It reads as follows: SHALL THE CITY OF MANCHESTER APPROVE THE THE CITY CHARTER AMENDMENT SUMMARIZED BELOW CHARTER REVIEW COMMITTEE SECTION 8.03 PERIODIC REVIEW (a)  Not less than once every ten (10) years the board of mayor and aldermen shall cause the …

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Manchester Mayor Manipulates Meetings in Advance of Mask Votes

Claiming “high risk” behavior by irresponsible citizens threatens the health of city staff and elected officials, Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig (D-Ward 1) and at-Large Alderman Dan O’Neil (D-Ward 1), Chairman of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen, announced that all meetings of the board and its committees will be remote “until further notice.”  That announcement …

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Principals Trash Manchester School Superintendent, or Did They?

On September 10, 2020, Teamsters Local 633 attorney William R. Cahill, Jr. submitted a “correspondence” from the Association of Manchester Principals (AMP) to Manchester school Superintendent Dr. John Goldhardt.  While the letter largely addressed a laundry list of complaints regarding the district’s plan to return to school amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, along with several reasons …

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President Trump Gets COVID19 – GOOD!

That was my first reaction  (GOOD!) upon learning that President Donald J. Trump had come down with the Wuhan Flu.  (I just named it for the place it came from like the Spanish Flu came from Spain and German Measles came from Germany, etc.).