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This week, we discuss business owners’ dissatisfaction with leadership in Burlington and Montpelier and the promise of natural gas. Authors’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. Follow these links for current and past content for the entire podcast lineup. Agree? Disagree? … Read more
House Speaker Mike Johnson is being pressured on multiple fronts in his efforts to pass a budget reconciliation bill by Independence Day. Not only is he being pressed by fiscal hawks to make deep spending cuts to cover tax breaks, but he’s also being threatened by blue-state Republicans demanding higher tax deductions to offset their states’ high-tax policies. … Read more
There are few more enthusiastic boosters for all the great things about New Hampshire than me. I share the data, polls, research, results, and whatever the mighty beast of the internet coughs up. I moved here from someplace else 35 years ago and have been a superfan ever since. As a superfan, I have also … Read more
Today, after nearly two decades of implementation and delays, the federal government’s new identification requirements for traveling by plane domestically or entering federal buildings technically go into effect. This federally-compliant ID card—known as Real ID—can only be attained with specific records and documents laid out by the federal government. It’s labeled by a black or … Read more
About as many who thought it was money well spent on The Roosevelt Hotel. Letitia James, the Attorney General of New York, is a bitter, angry woman who got elected on the singular pledge to make Donald Trump’s life miserable by tying him up in a lengthy public trial. She fulfilled her commitment with the … Read more
A lawsuit in late March that awarded Georgia man John Barnes $2.1 billion in damages looked like another piece of good news for one of the tens of thousands of litigants against Bayer, the agrochemical giant that since 2018 has owned Monsanto, maker of the popular weedkiller, Roundup. Glyphosate is used widely as an integral … Read more
Sandy ‘Gulf Stream’ Cortez is going to have to up her game. I know, the Jet Setting Neiman Marxist, birth mother of the economy-crushing Green New Deal, is emitting tons of unnecessary carbon to fight our oligarchs in front of crowds paid for by hers. The handmaiden media loves it. And she’s always been something … Read more
On May 6, 2025, Jenny O’Higgins, and her colleague at the Department of Health and Human Services, testified at a public hearing on HB446. Their testimony can be accessed here at 2:35:00. As you will hear at the beginning of their testimony, Ms. O’Higgins stated that she was there on behalf of DHHS to oppose HB446. You can … Read more
Mark Twain’s famous satire “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” chronicles the fictitious time travel of an engineer named Hank Morgan from East Hartford, Connecticut. After being struck in the head with a crowbar, he awakens in sixth-century England and works his way into King Arthur’s favor by use of his modern knowledge. I … Read more
Join us for a look at another week in Vermont politics. Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. Please like, follow, or subscribe to The ‘Grok on Rumble and YouTube for early access to new episodes of GrokTALK!, Right Side Up, and Replays of Granite … Read more
The Democrats are suffering from their own fabricated pandemic, TDS-47. Trump Derangement Syndrome 47 is a stronger mutation than TDS-45. It attacks Democrats’ minds, preventing them from thinking with any form of common sense, and impairs their emotional stability, causing them to spout vulgarities like Tourette’s Syndrome. There is no cure other than the elimination … Read more
Cassandra Sanchez and Lissa Mascio from the NH Office of the Child Advocate testified in opposition to HB10, a parental bill of rights, in the Senate Education Committee on April 1. They said some things I am seriously troubled by that I’m afraid weren’t noticed by the senators on the committee. Here is an excerpt … Read more
In a Friday message to board members of the Libertarian National Committee that oversees the United States Libertarian Party, party Chairman Steven Nekhaila wrote that “This board may very well be the last one standing between the Libertarian National Committee and full collapse.” If Nekhaila’s assessment of the situation — which he wrote is backed by a … Read more
Vermont’s population declined by 0.03 percent between 2023 and 2024. That’s 215 fewer people. About the same number of homeless people that were reported added in New Hampshire in the same period – an anecdotal observation with no connection, but a reader saw the decline on the Vermont side and wondered if it might be … Read more
Scott Jaquith is Director of School Counseling at Alvirne High School in the small, conservative town of Hudson, New Hampshire. He is also a long-time member of the Nashua Library Board of Trustees. I saw him in April at the anti-Trump “Hands Off!” rally in downtown Nashua, waving a Pride Progress Flag. The Pride Progress … Read more
It is an inconvenient fact that to be a transgirl you have to be a boy. It is also true that if boys who identify as girls can play sports against girls, they can also play sports against boys. The conundrum for the gender bending wizards leading the culture war is why it’s okay to … Read more
Robert Prevost ceased to exist on Thursday afternoon. Only in the Catholic Church can you go from anonymity to the most recognizable person on Earth in the beat of a heart. Robert Prevost, Cardinal Prevost, became Pope Leo XIV when he garnered 89 votes from his fellow Cardinals sequestered in the Sistine Chapel to elect … Read more
So-called clean energy, like wind and solar, were supposed to save the world from allegedly manmade climate change. But what about toxic manufacturing pollution and devastation to wildlife? These conflicting interests are visible in the tension caused by the recent pause in construction on the Empire Wind project near New York. The Trump administration doesn’t … Read more
You’re PARTISAN and YOU DON’T NEED OUR MONEY! NH Journal’s Managing Editor, Michael Graham, gives his opinion on New Hampshire Public Radio (NHPR)’s Jim Schachter and New Hampshire PBS’s Peter Frid’s response to President Donald Trump’s efforts to defund NPR and PBS. Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, … Read more
The latest clash between climate ideology and reality – the requirement in the Global Warming Solutions Act (2020) that Vermont adopt California’s Clean Cars and Clean Trucks standards – is coming to a head. So far reality has been racking up the victories with the Clean Heat Standard for home heating now lying “dormant” as … Read more