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We are still deploying the update, but all new content published on GraniteGrok should now come with an audio player at the top. Yes, you can listen to some AI guy or Gal read our content to you. Regular readers will already have noticed! You can also listen while surfing other content as long as … Read more
I run with the logo CALIFORNIA REFUGEE. Simple reason: I lived most of my life in California. I saw it transformed from a Ronald Reagan den of conservative values- you know, family, God, work, boys and girls bathrooms- to a third-world oligarchy run by Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom, Willie Brown, and others. There are a … Read more
As if the Seabrook School District were not already facing enough challenges within SAU21, a troubling situation has now drawn Hampton Falls into the controversy as well. A student from Seabrook who was subjected to relentless bullying is seeking to transfer to the Hampton Falls School through what is known as a Manifest Hardship transfer. … Read more
I read the Vermont Democrats’ post-mortem report following their 2024 election debacle, in which Republicans picked up 19 House seats, 6 Senate seats, and the lieutenant governorship (the first time an incumbent LTG was ousted from office since 1815), ending their supermajority status in both chambers. The key insight in the document leaves me wondering … Read more
New Hampshire needs common-sense protection for biological reality and sex-based rights for everyone.Urgent: Support SB552 – Protect Privacy & Safety in NH – Hearing THIS Wednesday! Dear friends and supporters of commonsense and biological reality, New Hampshire needs common-sense protection for biological reality and sex-based rights for everyone. Senate Bill 552 (now in the House) … Read more
If the City of Nashua and its three “independent” arts center corporations were truly separate, you would expect them to act that way when legal trouble arrived. They didn’t. Instead, they entered into a Confidentiality and Common Legal Interest Agreement, a joint defense pact that allowed them to operate as a single, coordinated legal unit while … Read more
Today, on the Morning Update, elected Democrats are the only ‘group’ opposed to ID to vote, but they are fine with requiring ID for all sorts of things, and in Connecticut, Democrats don’t want you to produce an ID to vote, but you will need ID for this. And yes, I say Tuesday, March 23rd, … Read more
This week, the Finance committee met to recommend 29 bills to the House. We did 20 before lunch, then settled in on the more difficult ones. Since these bills had been heard, debated, and in some cases amended, in the divisions, the committee tended to accept the judgment of the division; bills that were contentious … Read more
Most Americans don’t realize it, but Vermont has become quite progressive. Even some liberal Californians who moved to Vermont have remarked how much more extreme the Green Mountain State is today compared to the land of Gavin Newsom. For years, those progressives have been taunting the federal government to dispatch ICE for a visit. On … Read more
Sundays are odd days for me. I know, it’s Monday, and Monday is why Sunday is weird. I have a part-time Monday through Friday job, and I have some other side-gig work that all falls under the umbrella of GROK MEDIA, LLC, but GraniteGrok is the 7/365 gig. Not 24/7, but definitely 5-7/7/365 and depending … Read more
When the City of Nashua created three shell corporations to build and manage the Nashua Performing Arts Center, the public was told they were private and therefore off-limits. Private corporations, the argument went, meant private records. Private records meant the public had no right to see how decisions were being made. But the documents tell a … Read more
Remember the geometry teacher saying that 3 points determine a plane and 2 points determine a line? It’s ok if you don’t, but do 2 occurrences of the same behavior determine a pattern? Maybe. Maybe not. I’m not talking about a serial killer, but a serial snubber and that’s Christopher Charles Pappas(CCP). I gave him … Read more
Calls for the resignation of Superintendent Meredith Nadeau are resurfacing after a troubling audit conducted by the New Hampshire Department of Education. See Seabrook School Board meeting. The state review found that students with special needs in Seabrook’s elementary and middle schools were not receiving all of the services required under their Individualized Education Programs … Read more
New England state renewable energy mandates will double energy costs, cause rolling blackouts, while NH policies reduce regional costs With New England state governments committed to reducing their carbon emissions at least 80% by 2050, residents and businesses can expect electricity rates to double, along with rolling blackouts, according to a new joint report completed … Read more
On 11/5/19, the local useful idiots came out in droves to do the NTU’s bidding. Among those deeds were reinstalling Alderman Dowd and the mayor, ousting Howard Coffman and Doris from the school board, and passing a ballot question that removed every private citizen’s right to vote by way of abolishing special elections. The elimination … Read more
This week, on NE Take, AJ is joined by Andru Volinsky, an attorney and former New Hampshire Executive Councilor. He discusses his proposed “3-3 Tax Savings Plan”, but does this actually address the cost of education, and how will he fight the fact that Democrat leadership claims to disagree with an income tax? Read A. … Read more
Platner’s Misogyny and Mills’ Policies Both Betray Biological Women and Girls Maine Women Deserve Better: Platner and Mills Both Betray Maine’s Women and Girls! Maine’s Democratic primary for U.S. Senate has become a stark choice between two candidates who, in very different ways, have turned their backs on the safety, fairness, and dignity of biological … Read more
I noticed the NH Journal article on School Districts that lied about its numbers. By comparison, NH Journal has been unwilling to look at NHCADSV’s numbers, which are all over the place and simply do not add up. The NHCADSV has provided wildly different numbers on the number of people it serves. Central Crisis Center … Read more
Most of us have heard of the Bermuda Triangle. As someone with an above-average memory, I usually recall when and where I first heard something, and who said it. It was in the mid 70s, and I was riding shotgun with my mother somewhere in the city, but not necessarily on Amherst St. She said … Read more
New Hampshire led the American colonies 250 years ago by adopting a constitution that created an independent government before anyone else. So it’s fitting that in 2026, New Hampshire could achieve another first for independence. Like all Americans, government employees have the constitutional right to free speech and free association. In 2018, the U.S. Supreme … Read more