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?
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
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).
When Faced with Higher Wages, Poor People Suffer the Most
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!”
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…
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
The Truth is Out!
I always believed that to save a life was a good thing. The grey area in this belief is of course the lives of children in the womb, the pre-born. The big question: Should the government regulate one’s personal choice to end the life of their baby or not?
Camp Constitution Donates Pocket U.S. Constitutions to High School and Junior High Students in Laconia, NH
Last night-Tuesday January 25- at the Laconia School Board’s meeting, school board member, Dawn Johnson announced that Camp Constitution has donated 1,100 pocket copies of the U.S. Constitution to Laconia’s junior high and high school students with some extras for teachers.
Biden Is the Pied Piper
In my senior moment musings, I relive my childhood fascination with the fairy tales of Hans Christian Anderson and the Grimm Brothers. As a child these fairy tales provided endless amusement and incentivized me to learn to read.
Another Candidate Running for NH GOP Vice Chair: Randall Kelly
Hello, my name is Randall Kelley. I am a resident of Bristol and part of the great north… Grafton County. I am formally announcing and introducing my campaign for the NHGOP Vice Chair position.
About Woke
A very interesting debate took place in England recently. British satirist Konstantin Kisin engaged in that debate at Oxford Union and, surprisingly, won over many woke liberals. I don’t agree with much of his views on climate change endangering polar bears and such but he scored high points with me for addressing free speech as … Read more
Biden in Wonderland
Do you feel like you went down a rabbit hole in 2022? I DO! So, I consulted that wonderful childhood fantasy and adult farcical parody known as “ Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”. Alice met so many wonderfully fanciful culprits : the grinning Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, the March Hare and the Queen of Hearts. … Read more
Democrat PAC Citizens for Belknap Finished Its Take over of the Belknap County Republicans
Well done! While I was at the Selectmen’s meeting last night, the Belknap County Republican Committee held its January meeting and all went according to Gary Kiedaisch / Democrat Brian Biehl’s plans, In a standing-room-only crowd at the Gilford Library of about 16 people, as expected, Gregg Hough was elected chair, Doug Lambert (awaiting two … Read more
Does a Town Have the Right to Determine Its Own “Character”?
Last night I went to the Selectmen’s meeting at the urging of a couple of friends. We live in a “resort” town on Lake Winnipesaukee and it seems that our village has, these last two years, been overrun by out-of-town corporations buying up homes by the dozens.
Reopen NH: Legislative Session Kicks Off!
A Private Tutor for Every Student
Imagine how well you would have done in school if you had access to a tutor 24/7. Today, this is a real option for New Hampshire students, thanks to a partnership between the Department of Education and Tutor.com.
Kick Woke Criminal Justice Reforms to the Curb
The Illinois Supreme Court halted the state’s new law eliminating cash bail pending further litigation. Good. Maybe sanity will prevail in the end. Here’s what no-cash bail laws do: A New York man was arrested for beating his wife. He was released on no bail. Less than 24 hours later, he shot her dead in … Read more
Abortion Is Our “Canary in a Coal Mine,” and Hardly Anyone Cares
The beating heart of an unborn is like a canary in a coal mine.
When the canary’s heart stops, it means deadly gases are in the mine. When an unborn’s heart is unnaturally stopped, it means a dark societal force is at work and if not contained, it will destroy everything in its path.
The Omnibus Octopus Omnivore
The Tentacles of the Omnibus Octopus Omnivore ($1.7 T spending bill in the headlines) is unascertainable. Here are three highlights:
Public Schools are the Pied Piper of the 21st Century
Our public schools are a mess (allowing anything to be taught), and our school boards are failing us, but only we are to blame because we voted them in and don’t hold them accountable.