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This week on Right Side Up, Alison and Mike discuss climate science, climate-related legislation, and the adverse effects on the economy. We also talk about a second scientific revolution and an article by Jay Bhattacharya. Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the Embedded Video does not load. Authors’ and Speakers’ opinions are their own … Read more
Rural Vermont Rising clearly has the Left spooked. Rightly so. Any organization that goes from zero to nearly 16,000 followers in a matter of a few months and is organizing itself with town-based chapters aimed at rolling back big chunks of the Democratic Socialist (or progressive, or “woke,” or whatever you want to call it) … Read more
Independent media matters most when it says what other outlets won’t. That’s why Granite Grok exists. And it’s why Bare Minimum Books fits so naturally with it. Both are built around the same idea: Question assumptions. Follow evidence. Think clearly. Speak plainly. We’re putting together a July fundraiser that brings both together. GraniteGrok and Bare … Read more
Granite Staters — girls, women, boys, and men — we stand at a crossroads. New Hampshire’s motto is “Live Free or Die.” Today, that freedom includes protecting the hard-won rights of women and girls in sports. I walked away from the Democratic Party because they abandoned biological reality—allowing biological males into women’s sports, erasing fair … Read more
This week, on GrokTALK, my guest is Beth DiPasquale. The subject is HB1215, a bill to help people with communication disorders, and how, despite unanimous bipartisan support in both chambers, some greedy State Senators made it unpassable and refused to fix it so it could. 00:00 Introduction to Communication Rights01:08 The Journey of Spelling to … Read more
New Hampshire’s unique state tax structure is hard to understand, especially for people who don’t own a business. More than a third (36%) of the state General Fund and Education Trust Fund revenue comes from business taxes. The vast majority of that comes from the Business Profits Tax (BPT), but the lesser-known Business Enterprise Tax … Read more
In this installment of The Granite Discourse, the guest is Tom Mannion. Tom is a NH state rep for Hillsborough County District 1. He also served in the USMC for 4 years and was deployed in Iraq twice during Operation Iraqi Freedom. We talked about foreign policy as well as a wide range of NH … Read more
Artificial intelligence has arrived in Vermont politics, and whether you laughed at the latest video or found it offensive, it raises questions that aren’t going away. An AI-generated cartoon making fun of Congresswoman Becca Balint is making the rounds online. In the video, an artificial version of Rep. Becca Balint (D-Vermont) says things she never actually said, … Read more
This week, on The New England Take, A. J. has a chaotic rant about Democrats and Republicans filing for the New Hampshire midterms (especially Sununu, Beauchemin, and Beriont), their questionable campaign tactics, and how Pittsfield is working with Concord on school administrative duties. Authors’ and Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those … Read more
Dear Mr. Conforti, You state that “the City plays no formal role in State Legislative activity”. This is contradicted by the following: Councilor Schultz is an elected official for the State House. Mayor Jim Bouley’s firm Dennehy & Bouley is a paid lobbyist for/against bills presented to the legislature. Steve Shurtleff was both a councilor, … Read more
Bad actors sadly exist everywhere, even in institutions we want to think are exempt. Government is not one of those institutions, but we’d like to think that there’s a higher standard for Team Red in all government bodies, and we’re repeatedly disappointed. Let’s focus on our state legislature and note that the Senate is much … Read more
Since 1991, Vermont’s only member of the US House of Representatives has been either a socialist who couldn’t run as one (until now) or a Democrat (same difference). It has one district, the entire State of Vermont. You can’t gerrymander that. And despite its open borders and sanctuary city-like leanings, the state is still 93% … Read more
Maybe this is just another attack on women. After all, they want men to undress in your daughter’s locker room in high school, and to injure your daughter badly on the basketball or volleyball court. They want your once champion collegiate swimmer, who is poised to win an NCAA individual title, to stand on the … Read more
There has been plenty of discussion at multiple levels of government and among ordinary commoners about the subject of energy. Also, there’s an abundance of subject material on the internet, but amid all that chatter, I ran into this WMUR short video discussing Community Power(CP), something I’ve written about before. After watching it, I noticed … Read more
This week, on Right Side Up, Alison and Mike discuss the Independent school option and “Who owns the Land in Vermont?” Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble ‘ channel if the embedded video does not load. Authors’ and Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, … Read more
In the wake of Act 73/H.955 education “reform” and the emphasis on consolidation, there has been considerable worry in rural Vermont about what this means for their small, local schools. For many, it will mean closure. A recent op-ed by Nina Antin notes, “When Sen. Ruth Hardy, D-Addison, presented H.955 on the Vermont Senate floor, … Read more
As the 2026 legislative session wound down, it looked as though Republicans wouldn’t be able to agree on one of the party’s signature issues: cutting business taxes. During committee of conference negotiations last week, word spread (and was even reported in the news) that a House-passed Business Enterprise Tax cut was dead. House and Senate … Read more
Democrats hate women. I’ve written quite a lot about that. Much the way they hate minorities- I mean, look what they did to them? From one plantation to another and trapping them on the public dole is hardly compensation for wrecking their families, killing their babies (abortion, drugs, crime), while framing even a basic education … Read more
You are endowed by your Creator with certain unalienable rights. They cannot be specific to you or your tribe. As enumerated, they do not provide for location exceptions. No matter where you live, or what you look like, or who you love, you have rights the government may not infringe. Rights that government exists to … Read more
It’s already common knowledge that Rosenwald is retiring from the senate, and the enemy camp has selected Telerski to be her replacement. Queen Sharon called her and Ruth Ward up to her podium to be recognized and receive clocks as retirement gifts and address the rest of the senate. I expected the usual themes a … Read more