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In case you haven’t heard, Senate Education was supposed to have an executive session and vote on the Ruth Ward amendment with the whole Senate voting on October 23. Interestingly, when the committee returned from a short recess following Tuesday’s hearing, Ruth announced that the executive session would be rescheduled to “sometime before January.” A … Read more
In December 2023, I filed a detailed criminal complaint with the New Hampshire Department of Justice alleging that officials from the Town of Newmarket and their legal counsel had concealed and falsified public records—acts that, if proved, would violate New Hampshire’s tampering-and-falsification statutes. Nearly two years later, the Department’s Public Integrity Unit (PIU) has yet … Read more
What Justice Should Look Like It’s Time for Civil DiscourseAfter five years in Nashua’s courts, I no longer believe the system fails by accident. It fails by design through silence, delay, and loyalty to power. Yet the damage isn’t irreversible. Real reform is still possible if New Hampshire decides that fairness matters more than familiarity. … Read more
Ann Marie Banfield is an education policy analyst and parental rights advocate based in NH. You can read her work at https://granitegrok.com/author/ambanfield and contact her at banfieldannmarie@gmail.coms. Note: There was no new episode of Justice 4 All This Week. Thanks to Granite Discourse for letting us share their content! Speakers’ opinions are their own and … Read more
The Bay State, the cradle of liberty – robbed by generations of proglodytes pushing the Democrat agenda, is rushing toward disaster. Consumed by the green lie, they authorized the installation of “industrial-size battery energy storage systems (BESS) as a part of our state’s energy future.” As a result, Massachusetts is ill-prepared for the avalanche of … Read more
I am being illegally sentenced while my Mandatory appeal has been filed with the NH Supreme Court for the original criminal statutes protective orders issued without evidence in civil court otherwise known as family court, and the arrest warrant was signed by a magistrate judge who didn’t have an Oath and file and who was … Read more
Many years ago, I had a front row seat in observing the dynamics of a father and son that made me cringe on a regular basis. The identity of this toxic duo will not be shared with the readers, but let’s just say that the father regularly made parental decisions that I found appalling. His … Read more
The Pocket Judiciary In Nashua, justice doesn’t feel random. I was told that Superior Court cases are assigned through a “round-robin” system to keep things fair. Yet fifteen of my cases went to the same judge. This was simply not statistically possible, and patterns have meaning. That judge, Charles Temple, became the City’s go-to authority … Read more
Ward 4 Rep Paige Beauchemin, whose reputation already precedes her, recently appeared in the WMUR studio with Adam Sexton and said, “I think the millionaires are well represented already,” and a bunch of other far-left rhetoric in the very short video that was released last night. Ward 4 includes some of the trashiest parts of Nashua and … Read more
Republicans absolutely should pass Ruth Ward’s proposed “bailout” of the Claremont School District. Why? Because it is not, by any objective or neutral standard, a “bailout.” Rather, it is a commonsense, practical solution to Claremont’s budget deficit that should mitigate “collateral damage” to schoolchildren, such as missing out on sports, extracurricular activities, clubs, etc, with … Read more
When Justice Has a Price Tag When the City of Nashua spent nearly a million dollars fighting a voluminous 2022 Right-to-Know case, it wasn’t protecting taxpayers and records; it was protecting itself. The case involved the downtown road barriers, a project sold for “downtown vibrancy” but executed with little transparency. I asked for public meeting … Read more
In July 2024, Governor Chris Sununu signed House Bill 1014 which requires towns to recognize Columbus Day and not replace it with the woke faux-holiday celebrating indigenous people. Public libraries are generally closed on Columbus Day, so as with all holidays celebrated with a day off for staff, signs are placed prominently at entrances and … Read more
The Committee on the Future of Public Education is circulating an online survey to gauge public awareness and opinions regarding Act 73, the public education reform law that intends to restructure and consolidate Vermont’s school districts. While the introduction to the survey references that “The law was enacted in response to residents’ concerns about high … Read more
I’m calling on all like-minded Granite Staters to mark their calendars for Tuesday, November 4, regardless of whether they live in a city. If you live in a city, you should already know when your local election is, who to vote for, and who you need to get rid of. If you live in a … Read more
Busy, Burdened, and Broke From the outside, the court seemed to be managing a docket. In reality, it was managing appearances. No one, not the judge nor the City’s lawyers, acknowledged that the process itself had become unjust. The goal was never to expedite, but to delay. Inside City Hall, word had already spread that … Read more
Steve MacDonald was kind enough to share “RINO-Russ Barry” (a/k/a State Rep Ross Berry) Is Gaslighting You About “Local Control” And Property Taxes on his Granite Grok blog. Thank you, Steve! We noticed that State Rep Dan McGuire didn’t like our posting. We’ll share his criticism below, and then respond. Note that the focus of “RINO-Russ Barry” (a/k/a State Rep … Read more
When the Courts Turn Hostile Courts dread seeing a self-represented litigant walk through their doors, especially one challenging city government. In Nashua, that dread turns to hostility. Over five years of fighting for transparency, I’ve learned how the local court system uses its power not to ensure fairness, but to exhaust and financially break citizens … Read more
Earlier this week, I sent a list of questions to all four candidates in the race for Mayor of Rochester, New Hampshire. Given who is running, the unique situations in that corner of the state, and a flurry of interest from several readers, it seemed like something worth doing. Of the four, only two responded, … Read more
(Manch Talk 10/08/25) This week on Manch Talk, did you know you can buy a house in the Free State for Bitcoin—right now? Did you know Porcupine Real Estate is the OG of this revolution, quietly closing deals where digital meets dirt? Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, … Read more
In the wake of multiple tragic incidents of political violence, Rep. Laura Sibilia (I-Dover) recently penned an op-ed calling for respect, participation, open-mindedness, and dialogue with those with whom we disagree. “Too often,” she writes, “when people talk about those they [emphasis added] disagree with, I hear ‘they’ or ‘them.’ Used this way, these words are vague … Read more