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MACDONALD: Vermont Eases Vehicle Inspection Rules But Can’t Cut The Cord

July 3, 2026 Steve MacDonald

New Hampshire eliminated annual passenger vehicle inspections last year. Beginning in February 2026, they are no longer mandatory. The journey from there to here is well documented on our pages, including the lawsuits, caterwauling, and fearmongering. The problem was the paradigm. People just assumed that the state’s interest in making you pay for an inspection … Read more

Right Side Up: Public Safety, Health Care, and Green-Grabbing

April 16, 2026 Right Side Up

This week on Right Side Up, Mike and Alison discuss public safety, a bit of health care news, and a bit about “Green Grabbing.” Note: This week, Segment two includes video and audio, not just audio. Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the embedded video does not load. Authors’ and Speakers’ opinions are their … Read more

Right Side Up: Public Safety

December 11, 2025 Right Side Up

This week on Right Side Up, we discuss Act 180 of 2024 and its apparent adverse effects on public safety. And, is your firewood pile safe in Vermont?” Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. Got Something to Say, We Want … Read more

MACDONALD: Watch the Democrat Agenda Kill More Americans

November 2, 2025 Steve MacDonald

The idea that Democrats care about anything or anyone but themselves, and that does not include regular, everyday, registered Democrats, is absurd. Nothing they do or care about ends up improving their lives, care, or safety—quite the opposite. You may remember the deaths of a family by a foreign-born trucker who failed his written exam ten times. … Read more

Opinion: Stealing Your Liberty at the State Level

July 9, 2025June 13, 2025 Russ Rodgers

Much is said and known about federal government overreach. But unfortunately, very few understand that this overreach is out of control in many states as well. In New Hampshire, supposedly the “Live Free or Die” state, there is an effort to change current law regarding child endangerment to make it easier for law enforcement to … Read more

Opinion: Your Drink and You!

July 9, 2025May 31, 2025 Anonymous

YEESH, my fellow statespeople once again embarrass me. The legislature passed HB 81, allowing grown adults to take their beer and martinis with them to the restrooms. Odd? And you ask why? It’s so nobody can put a drug into the drink when you’re not there. This is an idiotic bill: our legislators are … Read more

MacDonald: EV School Buses Sidelined Over Fire Hazard

May 20, 2025May 20, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Buses built by Lion Electric are bursting into flames across the fruited plains. The fires have prompted a local transportation company providing bus service to a Vermont school district to discontinue use. After reported fires in Lion Electric buses across the country, Student Transportation of Vermont removed Barre Town’s buses for safety precautions. They reached … Read more

Cline: Outdated auto inspection laws appear more related to culture than cold

May 18, 2025 Andrew Cline

Every time legislators propose ending New Hampshire’s annual auto inspection mandate, opponents allege that inspections are common in Northern states because cold weather hazards (road salt, frost heaves) make them necessary. In fact, most cold-weather states, like most states overall, don’t require annual auto inspections. Mapping the states that require annual inspections reveals that culture … Read more

Firefighter’s Union Pushes Back And I See an Opportunity…

January 11, 2025 Steve MacDonald

I’ve seen a rise in town fire department and emergency service issues reports from readers around the state. They all seem to be having problems. And? I wonder if this is how we break the SAU local school district’s death grip on property taxes. Few if any will say property taxes are low or just … Read more

NH Ranked 5th in US for Guns Owned Per/1000 Citizens*

November 4, 2024 Steve MacDonald

With the understanding that not all gun purchase data is available or reported*, Ammo.com has published state-level statistics on several categories related to firearms. The first and perhaps more important, fact is that there is no correlation between the number of guns and crime. The United States is also the leader in registered firearms ownership, … Read more

Frustration and Exhaustion Shared at Public Meeting with Burlington Police

July 21, 2024 Steve MacDonald

The Burlington Police Department and the public met at City Hall on Thursday afternoon to share information and solutions regarding how to curb increased crimes in The Queen City. Both the public and the understaffed department shared exasperation as well as hope that things could improve. Much of the meeting was Police Chief Jon Murad … Read more

Vermont Will Have Fewer Gun Deaths in 2023 But The State Did Not Get Safer

July 16, 2024December 19, 2023 Steve MacDonald

We won’t have exact numbers until next year, but Vermont had a significant number of homicides in 2023, many of them gun-related. Unless there is a late December holiday shoot-out, however, there will be fewer gun deaths in 2023 than in 2022. But Vermont didn’t get ‘safer.’

If Elected Governor … Joyce Craig Promises to Come For Your Guns

November 2, 2023 Steve MacDonald

If you were not sure whether Manchester mayor Joyce Craig was a typical, rubber-stamp Democrat without an original policy idea in her head, this should help clear things up. After the Lewiston, Maine shooting, she did what every Democrat does. She announced a comprehensive plan to reduce gun violence …

Maggie Hassan Brags About Spending Billions on Border Security We Wouldn’t Need If She Spent Less to Build the Wall

October 16, 2022 Steve MacDonald

Maggie Hassan’s campaign ads are an endless source of amusement, contradiction, and content. Like the ad about the bill to help moms stay home with disabled kids. She was only a co-sponsor, and the bill hasn’t moved an inch since introduction seventeen months ago.

2022: New Hampshire is Still the Safest State in the Nation

September 3, 2022 Steve MacDonald

Does anyone get tired of hearing this? The Democrats might. Despite being a Constitutional Carry state, with a series of recent laws favoring the right to self-defense and where you can legally carry, New Hampshire is again being recognized as the safest state in the US.

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97.8% of Mass Shootings Occur in Gun-Free Zones

June 19, 2022 Steve MacDonald

Joseph Mercola, writing in the Epoch Times, shares some interesting insights (not all his own) into the ongoing problem of mass murder. The apparent truth is that even the unhinged have the sense to choose soft targets.

2020: Gun Crazy New Hampshire Has Lowest Murder Rate in the Nation

December 11, 2021 Steve MacDonald

New Hampshire has constitutional carry. The Left likes to call that sort of landscape The Wild West™. Blood in the streets, human sacrifice, cats and dogs, living together, mass hysteria. But it never happens.

Safety Isn’t Their Purpose, It’s Disarmament

April 20, 2021April 20, 2021 Skip

A rational person looks at all the ways that people die or get killed then figure out that those with larger numbers should be taken care of first. Or, not.

What Does Your America Stand For?

November 25, 2020

“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because the law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.” – Thomas Jefferson

Defensive Breathing

November 22, 2020November 22, 2020 Ian Underwood

When I learned to drive, I was taught something called ‘defensive driving.’ The basic idea was that I should always assume that there people out there driving around who are crazy, impaired, stupid, or just careless; and therefore it was my responsibility to watch out for them, and to keep myself safe because all the laws in the world couldn’t keep them off the road.