Keno-Garten Gravy Train Crashes

Last year, the New Hampshire government promised its cities and towns that if they passed all-day Kindergarten, it would help cover a larger portion of the per-pupil costs.  I was pretty leery of this plan, since most government subsidies (gimmes) eventually fade away, leaving the subsidizee holding the bag (think Federal Special Education grants). The … Read more

Gilford Steamer a Government Watchdog? Nope – lapdog is more like it.

I have been absent for a couple of days here at the ‘Grok as I have been spending time with my “other ‘Grok”.  That would be GilfordGrok that covered only issues that affected my home town.  With Doug going into political retirement, it was all I could do to keep up with this site, so GilfordGrok, over the last couple of year,  turned into my abandoned red-headed step-child version of a blog-site (pretty much, all I did was post up video of the meetings of the Budget Committee).

Sidenote: every town needs a ‘Grok to do the work that the mainstream press can’t or won’t do.  And what we see happening in DC, what happened in Concord, happens everywhere including your town or city.  And with the passing of that conservative firebrand Andrew Breitbart, we ALL need to be Breitbarts!

Read more

Share to...