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ROPER: Democrats’ Opposition to $1700 Federal Tax Credit Is Mean and Stupid

February 22, 2026 Rob Roper

A provision of the federal law H.1, aka the One Big Beautiful Bill, allows taxpayers to receive a dollar-for-dollar tax credit on your federal income tax of up to $1700 for contributing to a state-based 501c3 organization classified as a Scholarship Granting Organization (SGO). The SGO then uses that money to, as its name suggests, … Read more

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Raced-Based College Scholarships From Tech Giant Google Are Probably Illegal

August 24, 2022 Op-Ed

For our friends on the left, attitudes toward race have apparently come full circle. It wasn’t that long ago, less than a decade perhaps, that the mere suggestion of a major corporation openly discriminating against prospective candidates for scholarships and fellowships based on their race would have been denounced from every angle of the political spectrum.

Don’t let COVID Derail Your College Plans

June 19, 2020 Op-Ed

The COVID-19 pandemic caused a huge disruption to New Hampshire students when our schools shifted to remote instruction in April. But that’s not the only disruption faced by New Hampshire families.

NH Democrat Pretends to Care About Your Tax Burden – Must Have Forgot About Her Voting Record

December 22, 2019December 22, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Who would have ever thought that left-wing Merrimack Democrat Rosemarie Rung, would claim to be a tax fighter? A defender of your hard-earned dollar. An advocate for property rights of New Hampshire taxpayers.

The Next Shoe Drops on Girls Competing with Biological Boys in Girls Athletics

March 4, 2019 Steve MacDonald

There’s a growing library of stories about boys who claim to be girls winning girls High School sporting events. Almost everyone is trying to act like they are supportive. But how do you feel about High School (cis-gendered) girls losing out on sports scholarships to colleges because they lost to boys in girls competition?

New Hampshire Democrats Continue to Push for Discrimination Against Religious Schools

September 26, 2018April 14, 2018 Ed Mosca

executive_council_chambers — Executive Council Chambers

Earlier this week, the Executive Council voted on a $4.1 million scholarship plan.

From the Concord Monitor:

The program, approved by legislators last year, will provide for scholarship funding for 23 post-secondary institutions and training programs. Open to any New Hampshire high school graduates who are eligible to receive Pell Grants, the scholarships are set to be available for the next school year.

May 25th GrokTALK! Guest Segment – Kate Baker

September 26, 2018May 26, 2013 Steve MacDonald

In this segment of GrokTALK! we are joined by Kate Baker, the Executive Director at The Network for Educational Opportunity, to talk about New Hampshire’s Education scholarship Program, parent and student rights, and value of education choice. Listen Here http://granitegrok.com/GrokTalk/By-Snippets/05-25-2013%20Segment%20One.mp3 Download this segment here You can get links to other segments or listen to the complete … Read more

State Senate Committee Votes to End NH Democrat Efforts at Repealing Education Equality

September 26, 2018April 9, 2013 Steve MacDonald

From Facebook:

Senator Andy Sanborn reports fabulous news!! –> the Senate Health, Education, and Human Services Committee voted to kill HB370, so that’s a win for parents and school choice!!!

The Senate will still have to vote on the recommendation to kill the repeal effort but this is a very positive signal. And I I get to say ‘…Democrats attempt to repeal education equality.‘ That’ll have the leftocrats foaming at the mouth and spraying spittle on their keyboards as they attempt to translate their outrage into smears and slurs.

New Hampshire Democrats Want Their JackBoot Back on The Necks of Poor Kids

September 26, 2018February 1, 2013 Steve MacDonald

Back in April of 2012 we reported on how 71% of New Hampshire’s public schools failed to meet their adequate yearly progress in math and reading. (Not very ‘progressive’ of them.) We later debated the potential benefits to local New Hampshire school districts who could ‘potentially’ collect a tax windfall per student with the program–more than they would lose if the new voucher legislation was passed. (It passed.) We made fun of left wing criticism (narrative) against the scholarship program and even showed how it had saved other states money. We even reminded Liberals that they have been known to argue against overturing settled law (which the school voucher program is), the same Democrats who were now ~~focusing on the budget as promised~~ trying to overturn every law Republicans passed that they could–as quickly as possible.

Well, New Hampshire Democrats are still Democrats and the scholarship program passed by House Republicans is a threat to their union monopoly on education. So a scholarship program that is specifically designed to direct private money to help the most vulnerable, low income families in our state, gain access to schools with the potential to deliver better outcomes, must be repealed.

Democrat Education Plans Repeat Previous Failures

September 26, 2018October 4, 2012 Don

The debates between Maggie Hassan, Democrat, and Ovide Lamontaigne, Republican, remind me that the success of our children is at stake in this election. Democrat allegiance to Unions and the Educational Establishment lock children into failing public schools.

Today’s Democrat solution to educational problems has been providing increasingly poorer results for decades, just spend more money. That fits Einstein’s definition of insanity, “doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.” More money is not the solution, it just raises the cost of poor results.

A Brief And Incomplete Veto Override Round Up [Correction]

September 26, 2018June 28, 2012 Steve MacDonald

The fate of Obama-Care and the Holder Contempt vote , and all the discussion and speculation that follows, will probably wash out everything else today. Before that happens I want to take a few minutes to comment briefly on yesterday’s veto overrides.

I have written at great length on all these subjects and you can search the Grok for more detail than I’ll provide here, but for now I will speak again briefly on the Veto overrides of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban, Education scholarships (school choice) and Voter Photo ID…

On the jump.