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Belknap County Delegation – So What Do They Expect to Accomplish at Tomorrow Night’s Meeting?

March 12, 2023 Skip

A redo of the tainted results of the illegal Budget Review Subcommittee meetings due to them not being properly noticed at ALL as demanded by NH’s Open Meeting Law, RSA 91-A. Sorry, dudes, dudettes, and duds, no can do. We on the Gilford Budget Committee accidentally did that a couple times over the almost ten … Read more

The CRT Tide is Turning in Education

March 11, 2023 Op-Ed

Parents in New Hampshire and across the United States are taking back their most basic rights, seized by school officials, teacher unions and the billion-dollar woke Critical Race Theory/gender ideology industry.

A Fake Energy Crisis?

March 10, 2023 Don

It’s been claimed that: “No power source is more dangerous to life and the environment than burning fossil fuels”. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Such evidence hasn’t been provided. Would returning to burning wood, peat, dung, whale oil, and animal fat be safer? No. Honest evaluations consider minuses AND benefits. If we only considered minuses, … Read more

NH State Rep Steven Bogert at the Belknap County Delegation meetings – use of email BCC feature vs RSA 91-A (NH’s Right To Know Law)

March 12, 2023March 10, 2023 Skip

He thinks that he’s keeping from establishing a “quorum” via doing BCC emails (“Don’t do REPLY ALLs”). Won’t tell us who the “appropriate people” are that gave him the advice information. Problem is that in trying to avoid ONE Right To Know problem, he stepped into another one. And he’s quite blunt and so sure … Read more

Belknap County Deb Schakett 11-12-22 Delegation Notice

Belknap County Delegation – Chair Harry Bean Leads Republicans to Vote to Raise your County Taxes by 35.4%

March 9, 2023 Skip

Yep, that’s right. Instead of doing the right things by the right process (e.g., not properly noticing the Budget meetings, not making the proper motions, seconds, and votes on changing line item amounts, trying to circumvent NH’s Right To Know Law) that tainted / despoiled their work (look what happens when you try to cut … Read more

Belknap County Delegation Chair Harry Bean Proves That the Peter Principle Is Alive and Well

March 8, 2023 Skip

Background: Well, Monday night was supposed to be THE night that the Belknap County Delegation (made up of all the NH State Representatives from Belknap County) to finalize the Belknap County budget for the next year. The “Biz” items on the Agenda: Approve Budget Review Committee Minutes of February 15, 2023 Presentation of Review Committee’s … Read more

So No One is Holding Belknap County Chair Harry Bean Accountable for his RSA 91-A Misfits?

March 6, 2023March 6, 2023 Skip

So some birdies have been tweeting in my ear that a bunch of meetings have been held without proper noticing, the public doesn’t know, “fast and loose” is a phrase that could be applied to these “Citizens for Belknap PAC (Democrat) Republicans”. Starting to sound like a new project…guess I should go to the meeting … Read more

A Loyal, Hearty Group Proudly Supporting Freedom by Standing for and with Our Country’s Flag.

February 22, 2023 Op-Ed

Something interesting has been happening Saturday mornings on the lot across from Market Basket in Plymouth, NH. This spot has been the location of an early Saturday am Flag Wave for over two years straight.

February 22th Executive Council, Covid Spending Spree Report

February 21, 2023 Op-Ed

For the meeting on February 22nd, here is the following item the Executive Council is set to approve related to Covid-19 spending:

Skip’s Sauntering Snippets – #26 – Trans-Authoritarianism.

February 20, 2023February 20, 2023 Skip

A take off on my friend’s phrases, Erick Erickson, famous saying (“You will be made to care” that is now getting a second go-round because of Transgenders): You WILL be made to care tolerate accept affirm bow down to us and our demands. Funny how much faster that has morphed from the gays finally doing … Read more

Presidents’ Day – Much More than Just a Three-Day Weekend!

February 18, 2023 Op-Ed

George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are arguably the two greatest leaders in the history of the United States. Two great Presidents. Two great Americans. For many years, we would come together as a nation and celebrate each of their respective birthdays.

We Are The Defenders of Life

February 17, 2023 Op-Ed

I have to ask, where are the defenders of life? I mean of the unborn, whom they are killing via abortions in NH, to the tune of about 2,000 a year (a guestimate because NH does not track the number of abortions).

NH State Rep Dave Testerman: Why I Voted “Retain” on HB396 Concerning Biological Sex and Decisions

February 17, 2023 Op-Ed

I made it known to NH State Rep Dave Testerman that he could explain his vote on HB396 (relative to state recognition of biological sex), which caused a lot of angst on the Right. Below is his response. We thank him for sending this in. – Skip.

The “Mask Wars” Never Should Have Happened

February 15, 2023 Op-Ed

In February 2020, NIH director Anthony Fauci was privately asked in an email by former Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell what he advised regarding mask use.

Abortion Bills Coming up for Hearings Next Week 15th and 16th

February 12, 2023 Op-Ed

HEARINGS are where you can voice your opinion, experience/s, facts, lies, half-truths, and so on. If you plan to talk, you must fill out a PINK card on the table and hand to any one of the committee members.

What’s News?

February 9, 2023 Steve Earle

Does anyone who still has a grasp on their mind still reads the Laconia Daily Sun? Well, mostly I just read the Letters to the Editor. Yea I know, everyone’s entitled to an opinion but as the saying goes, “not to their own facts”. What has been burning my biscuits lately is that the so … Read more

Why Is a “Self-Funded” State-Owned Ski Area Looking To Take More Money from Taxpayers

February 5, 2023 Op-Ed

Cannon Mountain is at it again – now demanding $25 million from state taxpayers to replace a part-time ski lift that is only halfway through its engineered life (the tramway).

Minimum Wage Canva Free To Use Jenn Miranda

When Faced with Higher Wages, Poor People Suffer the Most

February 4, 2023 Don

If Jay Newton is right, why are many workers poor after each minimum wage increase? Why, after about 24 minimum wage increases over 70 years, haven’t we achieved economic nirvana where everyone’s rich and no one’s poor? Minimum wage laws aren’t a panacea; they’re attractive-sounding political programs designed to get votes. A higher minimum wage … Read more

Gilford Selectmen Meeting – 1/25/23 – Where a Selectman Announces “I Adore You, Skip!”

January 31, 2023January 31, 2023 Skip

I’m a bit late on this but since I went to the meeting, I figured I’d post the bits that I was interested in: Town Beach Regulation (beach pass policy “returned” back to be residents (+ their guests) and not STR (Short Term Rentals like AirBnB, VRBO, et al, and hotels. The town culvert failure … Read more

Climate Hasn’t Changed in 80 Years…

January 30, 2023January 30, 2023 Steve Earle

Here on Monday, after the snowstorm blowing over the driveway, I sit here and recall a Letter To The Editor that I sent a week or two back stating the climate has not changed in all my 80 years. So, of course, the following week a writer scoffed at my observation. May I suggest that … Read more