When a San Francisco Democrat has an idea, you expect it to be stupid. This one is. District Five Supervisor Vallie Brown wants to ban bricks and mortar retail outlets that do not take cash. Amazon’s Go stores are cashier-less. All transactions are electronic. Brown’s argument?
Nine years ago today, on February 20th, 2010, I published my first post at GraniteGrok.com. It was about Dan Itse’s bill to create a House committee whose purpose would be to consider the constitutionality of things. Government things. Later that same week I would write about taxes, commuter rail, Carol Shea-Porter, Paul Hodes, and Jeanne … Read more
The UN’s Sustainable (everything) Initiatives are several of many globalist one-world-government efforts. Like Climate change, they exist to redistribute wealth (and power) created by evil capitalism while poisoning it’s well. Think Regional Planning Commissions (RPC’s) who are local but think global. They pretend the priorities are yours, but they are actually regional governors imposing global ruling class … Read more
Just a brutal takedown by Grant Bosse at the UL of hopeful Democrat Governor candidate Steve Marchand: But Steve Marchand is doing his best to make Kelly look like Barry Goldwater. Both balls into the Left’s pool table left side pockets – a two-fer in marking Marchand as a true extremist with his anti-traditional American Exceptionalism stances … Read more
I started my working life, paper route aside, working at McDonald’s for $2.35/hour. Before I left, I was a store manager, training, and experience which lead to other such positions. Those lead to a testing gig in high-tech. QC and ISO positions (all self-trained), product management, technical writing, logistics, and other productive skills the free market needs. But … Read more
Today, Ivanka Trump and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin came to New Hampshire to talk about President Trump’s tax plan on “Tax Day.” The two were talking about the benefits of the tax plan that was put into place by the Republican-controlled Congress (not one of New Hampshire’s Democrat representatives voted for their constituents to … Read more
A Rhode Island Company has convinced the city of Nashua to spend your money. According to NHPR’s incorrectly named article “Nashua Alderman Unanimously Approve Commuter Rail Memorandum,” The Tuesday night unanimous approval of the memorandum of understanding means the city can begin work immediately with the Rhode Island-based Boston Surface Railroad Co to create a detailed plan. I … Read more
Amazon Prime users pay for a lot of privileges that pay for themselves, especially around the Gift Giving Season. Sure, I like the millions of songs, the streaming television, free reads and loads of other goodies, but what drew me in was free two-day delivery. It’s a premium service that can save you hundreds if … Read more
Some Democrats could care less about when an abortion happens. They’re convinced that it is not “alive” nor is it “a life” until it registers and votes Democrat. Then there are the Americans who avoid the subject, approach it unwillingly, or concede some level of support for the practice (meaningfully or just to avoid conflict) who … Read more
A white male with a rifle took a few shots at Republicans yesterday in Virgina. ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A gunman opened fire on Republican members of Congress during a baseball practice near Washington on Wednesday, wounding several people including senior Republican leader Steve Scalise before he was taken into custody, police and witnesses said. Phil Kerpen … Read more
LSR 2017-0950 from State Senator Bette Lasky requests “a general fund appropriation for continued project development for the capital rail corridor.” She wants money for another rail study. We’ve had more of those than I care to count. But Lasky represents Nashua, and Nashua wants someone to pay for another rail study. And Lasky is a Democrat. And … Read more
Andru Volinsky has an Op-Ed (full piece after the jump) that is about “shared values”. Unfortunately, he’s not honest enough to say “these are Progressive values” and instead tries to hide them as “commonsense New Hampshire values” trying to make readers think “well, how COULD you argue with these?” as they cock their heads to … Read more
Audio stream. Greg Moore from AFP-NH and NH House Rep JR Hoell join us to discuss the news of the week, the state economy, grassroots activism, commuter rail, medicaid expansion, right to work, the minimum wage, and more. Video livestream! 9-11am Enterprise Video Streaming Catch up with the podcast on any of these platforms Podcast now Available … Read more
Front page, Union Leader. The Nashua Delegation to the New Hampshire House don’t get no respect. Someone cut the money for yet another (other, other) rail study from the transportation budget and they are unhappy. As a preventative to future acts of injustice ‘Nashua’ is considering a hired gun. A paid lobbyist to…do what the Nashua … Read more
From the Anti-Planner (a nationally recognized land use and transportation expert): Commuter rail was flat, overall gaining just 20,000 riders for the entire year, which considering the total is 490 million is a 0.00 percent increase. Some of the biggest losers were Portland, Maine (-14%), Albuquerque (-12%), and Portland, Oregon (-8%). Maine, Maine – whatEVAH … Read more
The Panama Papers is the biggest ‘leak’ yet, unless you count the hissing sound coming from Obama and company about how this gives us a reason to reform ‘tax loopholes’ that allow companies to keep money away from them. First, there is no such things as a tax loophole. The law was written that way, with … Read more
Shot: NH Senate President, Republican Chuck Morse – in implementing Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion: this will protect NH Taxpayers Chaser: NH Rep Dale Sprague (D-Somersworth) – in arguing that NH ought to have a choo-choo train to Boston: The House also ignored the fact that the $4 million project development phase can be completed without impacting New Hampshire … Read more
The assumption sold by planners and their mass-transit water carriers is that publicly funded public transportation is a public good. They still tell that tale, but now the emphasis is on how public transportation is essential to saving the planet. Mass transit makes for a better environment. But does it?
Just saw this at the Boston Globe – am REALLY surprised (because of their very liberal slant) they even printed it. But given the absolute vitriol that the Left has for folks like me, I’ve put that Letter to the Editor here (reformatted, emphasis mine): When I boarded the commuter rail, you were already in … Read more
Greg Kline from Red Maryland is going to join us tomorrow on GrokTALK! to discuss the Baltimore riots. I was doing some reading in preparation for that interview and came across an article by another contributor at Red Maryland, Brian Griffiths. In the course of questioning the city’s failure to address issues of poverty, he … Read more