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Shortly before Nashua’s most recent routine city-wide train wreck, I took some heat for making some inappropriate comments about the surprise death of Ms Gloria Timmons. To “polite society,” I say that any adjective, including INAPPROPRIATE, is in the eyes of the beholder, but there’s something about Ms Gloria that Ward 2 can learn from, … Read more
TLDR: The people who could be punished have been. Chasing more scalps won’t bring the money back and will burn cash we don’t have. The real failure is structural: the board slid into oligarchy. Everyone who played along shares responsibility, and recovery starts when we admit that, take a moral inventory, and rebuild the machinery … Read more
Policy debates in New Hampshire are remarkably superficial. For example, an organization called the Tax Foundation recently released its “State Tax Competitive Index”, which scored New Hampshire the third-best State: But should New Hampshire’s tax policy be to achieve as high a rating as possible on the Tax Foundation’s “competitive index”? The Governor, the local Koch … Read more
Barry Laughton has been known within New Hampshire’s political circles for more than a decade. Barry, a Democrat who goes by Stacie, was trans before it was a public mental health crisis. Back in 2012, Laughton won a seat in the NH House and was lauded as the first transgender legislator, perhaps anywhere. Laughton was … Read more
Plus, Nick Fuentes still is terrible… This week on NE Take, A. J. and Dexter break down the impact of local elections in New Hampshire, how Zohran Mamdani’s win in NYC is bad for the nation, and the craziness around Nick Fuentes joining the Tucker Carlson Show. Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not … Read more
One of the Democrats’ hostage demands is the repeal of fifty billion earmarked for improving rural healthcare. For all their focus on this stand being about healthcare, the media should be asking a lot more questions about why they oppose this. The Big Beautiful bill cut funding for non-citizens and added funding to improve care … Read more
Do schools have a right or an obligation to control a particular narrative on school grounds? Can they control what messages everyone can express on campus? What if it hurts someone’s feelings? What if it makes them uncomfortable? How much responsibility does the school have in controlling a particular message? What if the message is … Read more
While Jay Ruais and the uniparty establishment elite are still reveling in his recent reelection, I’m here to rain on his parade because he’s clearly a captain who’s not a team player. He sabotaged “Team Red” in Manchester, and that cost his city their best alderman and their Ward 1 seat. There’s plenty of “Picklegate” … Read more
In other States, attorneys have had their licenses suspended for using media to influence judicial outcomes (eg, Steven D Silverman Esq, one of the attorneys with Chuck Douglas to sue St Paul’s, who had his license suspended by the DC Bar for using media to influence the Doe v. Cabrera sexual assault case. New Hampshire … Read more
MANCHESTER, NH November 6, 2025–Jason Paige, the Memorial High School history teacher who literally sang and danced for joy after the murder of conservative thought leader and civil rights activist Charlie Kirk, is no longer employed by the Manchester School District. Girard at Large received the following statement issued by Superintendent Jennifer Chmiel late Thursday afternoon, presumably in response to … Read more
Surging child care prices have grabbed the media’s attention here in New Hampshire, and rightly so. The price of full-time care in a licensed center “jumped 48 percent between 2013 and 2023,” landing at nearly $32,000 a year, according to an analysis last year by the Carsey School of Public Policy at UNH. Child care prices … Read more
Is public education broken? That depends on whether you think the goal was to redirect private resources to create knowledgeable citizens capable of self-education and self-rule. That was never its purpose, though we must confess that at least a few of the kiddies walked out the other end at least able to read and think … Read more
[re: Patrick Hynes (Sununu can deliver GOP seat in the Senate, Union Leader, October 25)] John E. Sununu is the epitome of the Washington elite. I don’t care how many long-term Senators in D.C. have endorsed Sununu, some of whom are members of a particular bureaucratic institution known as “the swamp”. They stick like glue … Read more
This week, Tom Murray from the Government Integrity Project joins me to explain why we are in a constitutional crisis in New Hampshire and what School Funding has to do with it. Note: Resolved a sketchy audio issue in the first two minutes. Sound is excellent after that. Speakers’ opinions are their own and may … Read more
After receiving the full ESSER I, II, and III expenditure files, I’ve completed a detailed and source-cited analysis of Nashua’s COVID-era funding, current fiscal management, and the broader demographic trends that have been repeatedly ignored. What emerges is a pattern of short-term financial decisions, politicized narratives, and resistance to data-driven planning that has left taxpayers … Read more
Think of the Dos Equis guy because I don’t always agree with Osborne, but when I do, it’s because he said something good. In a recent tweet, he said, “Anyone else wonder why all the attention on the SNAP corporate welfare program and not the federal workers who are furloughed or working without pay?” I’ve … Read more
There is a state law that says New Hampshire has to be the first primary in the presidential election process. This means that no matter when another state sets its primary date, New Hampshire has to set one earlier. You can say what you like, but NH has made it a statutory requirement that we … Read more
This week on NE Take, Editor-in-Chief Chris Thompson of The Granite Eagle breaks down what they do, why Chris stepped away from the New Hampshire Union Leader, and the future of Republican Politics after Trump. Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or … Read more
Scott Brown and John E. Sununu have something in common. They both appear to be deeply despised by factions of the eclectic New Hampshire Republican Party. More specifically, the libertarians who choose to run as Republicans (“Liberty Reps”) despise Brown, while MAGA-Republicans (populists) despise Sununu. Here is what a libertarian-influencer thinks of former Senator Brown: … Read more
In this uplifting episode of the Ever-Living Podcast, hosts Xindi, Jason, and Jessica recap New Hampshire Right to Life’s highly successful annual banquet, which drew a record number of students and honored faithful pro-life leaders. Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or … Read more