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Steve MacDonald

Steve is a long-time New Hampshire resident, blogger, and a member of the Board of directors of The 603 Alliance. He is the Managing Editor and co-owner of GraniteGrok.com, a former board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, and a past contributor to the Franklin Center for Public Policy.

Mizzou Must Cut Budget 8 – 12 % Layoffs Likely

The University of Missouri has had an interesting couple of years. The hoax. The meltdown/protest and Melissa Click antics and termination. On Campus 1984esqu Social Justice Civil War. Declining enrollment followed. And here comes the ax. Leaders at the four University of Missouri System schools have less than a month to bring forward budget proposals that outline how …

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US Senate Approves Neil Gorsuch to the US Supreme Court

A bit anticlimactic after yesterday but done, and done. (UL c/o New Media Militia) WASHINGTON — The Republican-led Senate on Friday gave Donald Trump the biggest triumph of his young presidency, confirming Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch over stout Democratic opposition and restoring a conservative majority on the nation’s highest judicial body. The Senate, which …

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NOAA Told to Drop Climate BS, Focus on the Weather.

NOAA, you’re drunk. Go home. WASHINGTON- The U.S House of Representatives today unanimously approved the Senate amendment to H.R. 353, the Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act, introduced by Science, Space, and Technology Committee Vice Chair Frank Lucas (R-Okla.). This legislation directs the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to prioritize its research to improve …

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Whomever Approved This Title Knows Nothing About Being “Armed to the Teeth”

If you hadn’t heard a man in Salem shot himself in the basement of a home that exploded. Searchers discovered some weapons, obviously. And while the media has reported on the explosion, the suicide, the man’s debts, a few booby traps, the opinions of neighbors, and other circumstances, the weapons are featured in most if …

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Out-Of State Group Behind Portsmouth Bag Ban Will Keep Pushing Their Agenda

Monday we reported on an attempt by elements in the City of Portsmouth to advance another plastic bag ban. Yesterday, the Portsmouth City Council postponed a vote on the ban pending review by the City Manager. It is unclear what the city manager can do. There is no legislative support or enabling legislation. Correspondent Kimberly Haas from …

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More Proof Al Gore Didn’t Invent the Internet

Tim Berners-Lee (Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee) has received the computing’s version of the Nobel Prize, the A.M. Turing Award, for inventing the internet. World Wide Web pioneer Tim Berners-Lee just chalked up another accolade, and it’s one of his greatest yet. The Association for Computing Machinery has given him the 2016 Turing Award, frequently considered the …

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Did New Hampshire’s Civil Engineers Just Ask for a Sales or Income Tax?

New Hampshire’s local coven of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE-NH) gave the state a C- on ‘infrastructure.’ The grade was determined by a team of professional engineers from across New Hampshire who assessed 12 categories of infrastructure. And they found that much of the state’s infrastructure requires investment and upgrades to keep up with …

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