Online Learning May Help the US Close Education Gap

Students Deserve the Best Education Possible

All our state’s students deserve the best education possible, and many people contribute to making that happen. Parents, teachers and school officials are all critical in the effort to educate our kids and help them unlock their potential. But our state legislators are also important, because they help set the overall approach that schools take … Read more

Polar Bear Climate change makes me sad

Democrats’ campaign ideas never make it in practice

While it’s on my mind I should comment on a couple of letters in the Laconia Daily Sun where the writers lament our failure to buy into their climate change hysteria. Seems they believe all the disaster scenarios produced over the past 20-some years are cascading into reality. Frankly, I do not see it.

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Waste-to-energy is the solution to the trash problem

Regarding the recycling center in Gilford, this whole project has been a boondoggle of the highest degree. As the entire recycling industry crashes and burns, Gilford dives in headfirst … to an EMPTY pool. Once again, government is a day late and a dollar short in providing a “solution” to a “problem” that doesn’t exist, … Read more

Christians Stand with Israel. Amazon stands with discredited Southern Poverty Law Center.

The AmazonSmile Program Now Prevents Customer Donations to a Pro-Israel Organization, Proclaiming Justice to The Nations (PJTN), a Tennessee-based non-profit evangelical Christian organization committed towards standing with Israel and fighting antisemitism, has been removed from the AmazonSmile program, which enables Amazon customers to donate a percentage of their purchase to their favorite charity. PJTN President … Read more

Throw the Bums Out!

Our selectmen and county commissioners, among all other government officials, are fiduciaries and have fiduciary duties to us, the voters and taxpayers. If they fail to honor their fiduciary duties to us, they must and should be removed from office.  In other words, throw the bums out! Sometimes easy to do with typical 2-year terms, … Read more

The Myth of Voter Suppression

Do Republicans win elections by preventing minorities—blacks, Latinos, and others—from voting? For those on the left and their allies in the major media, the answer is yes; even more than that, it’s an article of faith. The left says yes, but the data says NO. Jason Riley, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributor … Read more

Transgender policy erases girls’ gains in athletics

To the residents of Gilford & Gilmanton, If you are not already aware, our School Board is on the brink of adopting a new transgender nondiscrimination policy based on the passage of SB 263. Now, on the surface, this sounds like a good idea, right? I don’t imagine many people would tolerate a transgendered student … Read more

Gilford Recyle Center

Gilford: Money, Monopoly, and Mandatory – what a Mess for Trash and Recycling

BY RICK NOTKIN

MY ERROR!  I failed to swap the actual writer’s name for mine – that has been corrected and I apologize to those that thought I wrote this when it was Rick Notkin.  My humblest apologies.  It has been corrected and bumped

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Let’s see if I understand the situation in Gilford. The town is dissatisfied with the arrangement with Laconia for disposal of trash, so they decided to build a combined trash/recycling center at the recycling site.

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“Elves are afoot on behalf of Lakes Region Porcupines”

The LRP (Lakes Region Porcupines) Elves are afoot. As the Lakes Region Porcupines’ annual toy drive is underway, we are seeking donations to help struggling families have a good Christmas. We give each child at least two gifts, but it is usually more than that. 100% of all donations go directly to the kids. We … Read more

Robert Heinlen

Notable Quote – We’re Screwed

“A generation that doesn’t know history has no past; and no future.”-Robert Heinlein (science fiction writer, author, speaker, and “source for” part of the GraniteGrok name)

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The Islamic Infiltration of America Continues- is it treasonous spying?

Rep. Ilhan Omar (Democrat) has made wearing a headscarf seem fashionable, chic and powerful. But it now appears that she was recruited by a foreign government, received funding from a foreign government, and passed sensitive information through intermediates to Iran, a Florida court has been told.  It is now claimed that she passed information to … Read more

If it is wrong in one place, it should be wrong in the other, right?

So, one is from the Kavanaugh trial where the Democrats tried to railroad him off the Supreme Court bench. Or yet another #MeToo event (either real like Harvey Weinstein, or yet hoax for some agenda based reason (er, drinking, buyers remorse, get-the-boyfriend/girlfriend, or just some other obscure reason that we’re supposed already know about).  Either … Read more

Bathrooms and Trannies: who ever thought this would be controversial??

From Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals: RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.) So while this is a serious topic … Read more

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