Residents in Rochester are growing concerned that the Rochester School Board hired former Superintendent Tom Ambrose. Ambrose just resigned from the Sanborn school district after parents and residents demanded his resignation. Ambrose resigned after a student abuse scandal that involved a special education teacher. The former teacher was accused of abusing kindergarten through 2nd grade … Read more
It’s not just your child who has almost no privacy protections in a public school, but it looks like school board members and elected union officials may not have privacy, too.
Well … the NHGOP has lost ANOTHER House election … to another extremist. I am sure the bitter-clingers are in full denial mode … the Democrat was the incumbent … Democrats always do better in special elections; means absolutely nothing … Democrats always do better in cities … we were outspent … we still have … Read more
As I warned months ago, the CDC’s agenda of turning schools into medical and mental health clinics will become a big problem. Recently children in Nashua and Rochester were vaccinated despite their parents’ objections.
The latest front in the culture war has taken an interesting turn. Mostly Democrats and members of various LGBT identity groups have decided there should be no discussion about the appropriateness of books that depict children performing gay sex acts.
At what point was it decided that $3 million more dollars would need to be pumped into less than a half acre of roadway for a Traffic Roundabout? I’d say it was “Round a Bout” the time of the initial planning stage.
One of the hottest battlegrounds in America is education after Teacher’s unions pushed for no-contact, off-campus digital education ‘cuz COVID, but it was parents who learned a thing or two.
A lot of incumbent mayors won in New Hampshire. These are non-partisan races (cough-cough), but most of them are Democrats. Urban decline is the hallmark of Democrat rule, but Rochester, NH, is trying something else for a few years. They just elected a Republican Mayor.
I ventured into the wilds and attended the Rochester Granite Grok meet-up. Good time. I was especially gratified at Skip & Steve specifically mentioning me, and doubly so for actually getting what I’d call a significant amount of applause at that mention. So, wait, people actually read my stuff? Kewl!
Our “friends” on the left have released a fresh round of artillery in the culture war. “The Rochester, Minnesota, school board has declared “Black Lives Matter” to be “government speech” to prohibit debate and prevent anyone from expressing a contrary opinion.
I was born in Massachusetts but raised in a suburb of Rochester, New York. Riots have returned to Rochester and taken a toll on the people and the police department. A city run by Democrat Mayors for 58 years minus a three-year hiccup from 1970 to 1973. In other words, whatever this is, Democrats own it.
Patrick Bradley is not a legislator, so he can’t use the law to suppress speech. His method of silencing political expressions of which he disapproves is to punch a 15-year-old Kid in a MAGA hat. But that wasn’t his first red-square rodeo. Before he took to assaulting minors, he hit a police officer.
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Tonight, the Rochester City Council voted against joining The Granite State Futures program, which is New Hampshire’s implementation of Barack Obama’s Sustainable Communities Initiative.
A few weeks ago, about 50 people (from Rochester and many surrounding communities) showed up at a City Council workshop to voice their opinion against this program, which includes an approximate $30,000 planning grant. It wasn’t until tonight’s vote that someone showed up to speak in favor of the program – Regional HUD representative (and Republican), Greg Carson, who was ill during the night of the workshop.
At least 70 people showed up tonight for the vote.
In these economic times, grant money like this is tempting for cities and towns that are likely in financial straits. But Rochester has accepted Federal grant money in the past and got burned; they apparently heard the warnings from the public, and gave sufficient weight to prior experience.
Ken’s mission at the Rochester City Council meeting( as it sought Public Input on its signing onto the NH version of the Federal Government’s Sustainable Communities Initiative (“SCI”), also known locally as The Granite State Future Plan) was to start connecting the dots between all of the groups that are pushing, advocating, and agitating for the passage of the Granite State Future Plan (to supplant local control of zoning ordinances with those mandated by the Federal Govt’s HUD, EPA, and DOT).
To wit: the Conservation Law Foundation (a partner in the Granite State Future Program) also runs the New Great Bay Coalition that is advocating for a new regional water treatment plant (which is going to cost Rochester mega buckeroonies) under the Water Sustainability Commission, whose final report will be incorporated into the Granite State Future Plan (Otherwise known as: a circular taxpayer firing squad hosted by NGOs and bureaucrats!).
Ken related a comment made during one of the Water Sustainability Commissions:
“Water and sewer rates are too cheap in the State” and at that point, a few of the Commissioners alluded to the Great Bay sewerage treatment project and chuckled that…
“The residents in those towns in that project would soon learn that water and sewer is not cheap.”
He also brought up the fact that the Planner for Rochester, Kenn Ortmann, has a conflict; he is also the Vice Chair of the NH Housing Finance Agency and has a fiduciary responsibility that supersedes that of his responsibility to the City of Rochester. Any further testimony by Ortmann needs to be challenged.
I have known Sue for a few years now as a TEA Party / Rochester 9-12 Project member – and an utterly devoted person to her Bible, the US and NH Constitutions, and her guns (and her hubby, Jerry). I guess that the Obama Administration and the NH Democrat Party would call her a bitter, clinger, extremist. Me? A Patriot!
A first time NH House Legislator this session (R-Rochester, Strafford 1), the ‘Grok caught up with her at last night’s Rochester City Council meeting (concerning Public Input on The Granite State Future Plan that is supporting the Obama Administration’s Sustainable Communities Initiative (spearheaded by the money carrots to change local zoning ordinance to suit the EPA, DOT, and EPA; listen to Grokster Tom as he speaks here).
Yes, this is a NH House legislator. Those of you who are “NH political junkies” can probably decode the House Vanity plate and already know whose car this is. For those of you who are not, the answer is after the jump.
The bumper stickers? Revealing:
(H/T: loyal ‘Grok reader, Jean, who nailed this the day of the Right To Work override vote)
