The Manchester Free Press

Sunday • April 20 • 2025

Vol.XVII • No.XVI

Manchester, N.H.

Wyoming Could Ban Electronic Voting Machines

Granite Grok - Wed, 2025-02-05 13:00 +0000
You might ask why you’d care whether Wyoming, a state with less than half the population of New Hampshire and ten times the land mass, banned electronic voting machines in favor of hand-counting paper ballots. That’s the plan if House Bill 215 survives the legislative process to become law. The House Corporations, Elections and Political ... Read more

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USAID Was Created By Executive Order, It Can Die By One

Granite Grok - Wed, 2025-02-05 11:00 +0000
You know you are on the right track when your actions have upset Ilhan Omar. Omar went apoplectic this week when President Trump froze the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and any flow of taxpayer dollars from the agency for 90 days. This time will be used to carefully investigate the financial records ... Read more

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Boston Proposes Regressive Sugar Tax

Granite Grok - Wed, 2025-02-05 03:00 +0000
Boston’s City Council is weighing a tax on sugary drinks to improve health, advance equity, and increase its coffers by tens of millions of dollars a year. Such progressive policies seek revenue in the name of rescue but inevitably inflict more significant inequities on the marginalized communities they purport to serve. A sugar tax is ... Read more

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I Got Yer ‘Advise And Consent’ Right Here!

Granite Grok - Wed, 2025-02-05 01:00 +0000
Now that Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii is holding up all of Trump’s nominations , it seems appropriate to re-post a recommendation I made a while back: Okay, if this is the way things are going to go, here’s what I think Trump should do.  He should tell the Senate: “You just pick whoever you ... Read more

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Let’s Talk About Life! [Replay]

Granite Grok - Tue, 2025-02-04 23:50 +0000
This week…Let’s TALK about Life! From Abortion to Suicide… Politics, Religion, & Death! With Special Guest State Rep Paul Terry! T Call in at 1 833 603 TALK his week…Let’s TALK about Life! From Abortion to Suicide… Politics, Religion, & Death! With Special Guest State Rep Paul Terry! T Call in at 1 833 603 ... Read more

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Empowering Parents in Education: A Crucial Step Forward

Granite Grok - Tue, 2025-02-04 23:00 +0000
As a concerned mother, engaged community member, and the Moms for Liberty Hillsborough Co. chairman, I recently testified in favor of a critical piece of legislation that seeks to establish a Parents’ Bill of Rights in Education. My experience navigating the educational system and advocating for my children has made it evident that parental involvement ... Read more

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An Object Lesson in Coddling Insane Murderers

Granite Grok - Tue, 2025-02-04 21:00 +0000
A “cannibal” who killed a homeless man and ate his eyes and brain was committed in 2013 to Connecticut’s custody for a term of 60 years, then released from the secure facility where he had been housed on “temporary leave” to a group home in September 2023.  A hearing scheduled for February 21 will determine whether he is ... Read more

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Your State House 1/31/25

Granite Grok - Tue, 2025-02-04 20:00 +0000
This week, my committee continued with public hearings. HB 233, requiring the New Hampshire vaccine association record and publish its meetings, including written questions and their answers, had a rather contentious hearing. The supporters spoke of transparency and being unable to get their questions answered; the association insisted that it was merely a pass through ... Read more

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Thoughts on HB 553: The “Make Parenting Illegal” Bill

Granite Grok - Tue, 2025-02-04 19:00 +0000
When I learned of HB 553, a resurrected version of SB 459 last year, and it was already scheduled for a public hearing in the House Children and Family Law Committee on Tuesday afternoon (1/28/25) at 1:30.  The purpose of the bill is to broaden the statutory definition of “neglect” to include things like “emotional ... Read more

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House Leadership Needs To Explain Where The Money Went

Granite Grok - Tue, 2025-02-04 17:00 +0000
Yesterday, we published a story on an election law complaint citing discrepancies between donations to the Committee to Elect House Republicans (CTEHR) and the campaign finance reporting. Just under 170,000 dollars is unaccounted for. When asked for comment, Majority Leader Jason Osborne replied (in part) that, While this does not excuse the oversight, had Rep. ... Read more

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Unheeded Warnings from the Founders

Granite Grok - Tue, 2025-02-04 15:00 +0000
“I would quarrel with both parties, and with every individual of each, before I would subjugate my understanding, or prostitute my tongue or pen to either.”  John Adams didn’t pull any punches. Though his presidency was contentious, this 1763 quote underscores his deep disdain for blind partisanship – a concern shared by many of the ... Read more

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The DOGE Raid On USAID

Granite Grok - Tue, 2025-02-04 13:00 +0000
It will have been hard to miss the weekend coup that occurred at the offices of USAID. Trump sent Team DOGE in, who locked everyone out and then told the entire USAID staff not to come to work on Monday. “At the direction of Agency leadership, the USAID headquarters at the Ronald Reagan building in ... Read more

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Hartford Residents Fear for Their Safety Because…?

Granite Grok - Tue, 2025-02-04 11:00 +0000
An email was sent out recently by the Interim Superintendent for the Hartford School District, Caty Sutton, raising questions about the safety of Hartford area students at school.  In the cryptic letter Miss Sutton implies one or more of the recent executive orders issued by the Trump Administration has raised the fears and anxiety of ... Read more

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Tucson Mayor Romero Can’t Offset Child Trafficking; She’s Such a Gem

Granite Grok - Tue, 2025-02-04 03:00 +0000
Tucson, Arizona, markets itself to the Nation using many Buzzwords and Catchphrases: Pioneer, 3rd in the Nation, Sanctuary City, Climate Action Hub. Then, Mayor Regina Romero takes vow after vow to promote her stance on human rights. Tucson’s mayor vows to protect families from separation. Regina, with her creative accounting and offsetting, is third in ... Read more

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The Empty Promise of Net Zero

Granite Grok - Tue, 2025-02-04 01:00 +0000
This Week, Mike Tagliavia and Dylan Maguire discuss the empty promise of Net Zero, the problem of public safety, and transgender agenda issues in our public schools” Please like, follow, or subscribe to The ‘Grok on Rumble and YouTube and check for Replays of Granite State Live, GrokTALK! and Right Side Up, or follow these links to their podcast ... Read more

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There Is No Such Thing as “Settled Law”

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-02-03 23:00 +0000
Much of the debate over so-called “birthright citizenship” is over interpretations of the Fourteenth Amendment to the US constitution. Most of the people currently in power claim that the text means every baby born to every foreign national on American soil is an automatic US citizen. Others—like myself—believe that this interpretation is dubious and has ... Read more

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Hakeem Jeffries Is Not Fit To Lead

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-02-03 21:00 +0000
Hakeem Jeffries has shown his true colors. Jeffries constantly teeters from radical to mainstream, and many think of him as the Party’s future leader once Schumer and Pelosi give up the reins. If what he said this week is any indication, his leadership role should be questioned, and this is further evidence of the disheveled ... Read more

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Five Reasons Why You Should Write for GraniteGrok

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-02-03 19:00 +0000
Why should you write for GraniteGrok? Something happened that the news media isn’t covering and you want to cover it for posterity like The New Hampshire Pro-Aborts Have Lost Their Mojo. You have sources and information you don’t want to lose like Top 10 Reasons Why the NH Buffer Zone Law Must Be Repealed. You ... Read more

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Election Law Complaints Filed Against NH House Leadership [Updated]

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-02-03 17:00 +0000
I have received a number of anonymous election law complaints filed with the New Hampshire Secretary of State’s Office. The first is related to the Committee to Elect House Republicans (CTEHR) The complaint purports to identify several significant discrepancies amounting to nearly $170,000.00 in missing funds for which there is no obvious expenditure in the ... Read more

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Federalism and the 10th Amendment: Explaining Delegated and Reserved Powers

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-02-03 15:00 +0000
“Independent of the control or interference of the federal government.” That’s how Tench Coxe described the vast majority of power under the Constitution – reserved to the states and completely off-limits to federal authority. Perhaps better than any other supporter of the Constitution, Coxe explained federalism – the division of powers between the state and ... Read more

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