The Manchester Free Press

Saturday • April 19 • 2025

Vol.XVII • No.XVI

Manchester, N.H.

Elected Officials Should Read This Before Blocking People on Social Media

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-01-06 01:00 +0000
I wrote this last year, but with a new session just a few days away, I thought this might be a good time to revisit it. Elected officials who use social media accounts to report on their duties, votes, bills, hearings, or anything similar are setting themselves up to get sued if they block people ... Read more

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The New Hysteria: The Regime Pivots from Russians to Immigrants

Granite Grok - Sun, 2025-01-05 23:00 +0000
The debate over immigration is working out perfectly for the deep state. Donald Trump is calling on the CIA and the FBI to “get involved” in domestic policing. At the same time, MAGA conservatives are begging the US government to impose a vast new surveillance state on Americans in the name of stopping illegal aliens. For at ... Read more

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Las Vegas Bombing Suspect Graduated From Vermont’s Norwich University

Granite Grok - Sun, 2025-01-05 21:00 +0000
The suspect in Thursday’s exploding Cyber Truck incident in Las Vegas had obtained an online degree at Vermont’s Norwich University. The deceased suspect, Matthew Livelsberger, age 37, attended the Northfield-based school before becoming a U.S. Army Green Beret. The school sent the following statement to VDC. “Above all, our hearts go out to those impacted,” wrote ... Read more

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Bow School Admin., Where’s Your Proof?

Granite Grok - Sun, 2025-01-05 19:00 +0000
Bow administrators decided to double down after they issued No-Tresspass orders to parents who attended a girl’s soccer game in the Fall. Three spectators wore pink wristbands with XX written on them to express their support for girls-only soccer. The three pushed back and took the school district to court, citing their right to free ... Read more

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Protect Public Hearings at the NH State House

Granite Grok - Sun, 2025-01-05 17:00 +0000
The NH House of Representatives will meet for the first time on Wednesday, Jan 8th. They will vote on the House Rules that are the operational guidelines for the legislative chamber.  There is a proposal to deny guaranteed public hearings for bills in Rule 44.  The Full House will vote on this proposal to change Rule 44, ... Read more

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Nashua’s Unlawful Management of $75M in City Trust Funds

Granite Grok - Sun, 2025-01-05 15:00 +0000
It all began with a simple question. In October, I wanted to verify the balance in a special fund (Capital Reserve Fund) set up for the maintenance of the Performing Arts Center, which opened on April 1, 2023. The City’s Board of Aldermen (BOA) approved this fund in August 2023. It was meant to be ... Read more

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Woke-a-pedia

Granite Grok - Sun, 2025-01-05 13:00 +0000
It is no secret that Wikipedia is part of the #woke media complex. Its editors are a cabal of Pharisees, and the content is increasingly suspect, even on topics like science. What was once intended as an encyclopedia by the people is one by certain people with a very narrow left-wing sense of meaning meant ... Read more

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President Madison’s Final Act to Defend the Constitution

Granite Grok - Sun, 2025-01-05 11:00 +0000
On his last day in office, James Madison delivered what might be history’s most significant – and overlooked – presidential veto. This was in response to the Bonus Bill in 1817 – an infrastructure bill, what they referred to as “internal improvements.” In a rare example of both integrity and adherence to the Oath of ... Read more

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Reasons To Be Thankful for Living in New Hampshire

Granite Grok - Sun, 2025-01-05 03:00 +0000
Aside from the obvious charms of the state’s natural beauty, its variety of coastline, lakes, hills, and mountains, its plentiful ice cream shops, and its abundant maple syrup, humans have created additional benefits of living here. Below are five man-made reasons to be thankful for calling the “live free or die” state home. Capt. John ... Read more

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Is The Legislature Backing Off The Clean Heat Standard?

Granite Grok - Sun, 2025-01-05 01:00 +0000
Following the loss of their supermajority in the 2024 General Election, Democrat leaders in the State House seem willing to reconsider or even potentially abandon some climate and environmental policies they have long championed.  We’ll update you on another much more distressing Vermont National connection, which is the Norwich grad who was inside that Tesla ... Read more

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FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down

Granite Grok - Sat, 2025-01-04 23:00 +0000
Biden’s FCC reinstituted (Obama-Era) net neutrality rules in April. They were suspended in August while a challenge lounged around in the federal court system. It only took four months, but the 6th Circuit has trashed the rules and told the FCC that it lacks the authority to regulate in this manner. The Federal Communications Commission ... Read more

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Grok Shot: Kamala Forgets* the Pledge of Allegiance

Granite Grok - Sat, 2025-01-04 22:00 +0000
Here’s a quick (bonus!) finger-the-eye sort of post. Comma-Lah seems to have forgotten the pledge of allegiance (*assuming she ever knew it, of course). Grok Shot: Kamala Forgets* the Pledge of Allegiance

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Will Melanie Congratulate Tim Scott?

Granite Grok - Sat, 2025-01-04 21:00 +0000
I ran into a tweet from Wyoming Senator John Barrasso congratulating Tim Scott for being the longest-serving Black Senator in American history.  I join Barrasso in congratulating him, but my immediate question was if Ms Melanie Levesque would do so also.   In the past several election cycles, Melanie appeared to have enjoyed pointing out her ... Read more

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Is The Housing Crisis Narrative Bad for the New Hampshire Advantage?

Granite Grok - Sat, 2025-01-04 19:00 +0000
I doubt there’s scientific research on it, but I’ve had this idea niggling at the back of my mind for a while. Anecdotally, how likely is your voting district to blue-shift based on the number of apartments you allow developers to add? We know that urban areas overwhelmingly vote Democrat. These places had a lot ... Read more

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A Review of the Laws Governing Vaccine Mandates

Granite Grok - Sat, 2025-01-04 17:00 +0000
I participated in a forum at the University of Connecticut Medical School on November 6, 2024, discussing the ethics of workplace vaccine mandates, obviously with an emphasis on the recent COVID experience. I covered the legal environment while other speakers addressed some of the science and ethics of mandates, and the interplay between a hospital ... Read more

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The Significance of 2024 and the Challenges of 2025

Granite Grok - Sat, 2025-01-04 15:00 +0000
More than any other holiday, New Year’s is a day for reflecting on the past and contemplating our future. And, in the fight to protect and advance human liberty, sound economics, and international peace, 2024 has given us a lot to reflect on. Something that becomes clear, especially when studying primary sources from many different ... Read more

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The American Petroleum Institute and U.S. Chamber of Commerce Sue Vermont

Granite Grok - Sat, 2025-01-04 13:00 +0000
Last year, the Vermont Legislature wrote and passed a law, S.259, the “Climate Superfund Act.” Its stated purpose is to fiscally fine fossil fuel companies for damage caused by “climate change.” Its actual purpose is to grub about for money to fill holes in mismanaged budges created by big-spending Democrats. I’ve said plenty about how ... Read more

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Bogus Bird Flu

Granite Grok - Sat, 2025-01-04 11:00 +0000
I just had a reach out from a guy planning to put pastured poultry on his family farm that currently raises cows and pigs, but “mom” is concerned the chickens will invite bird flu, which will then infect the pigs and cows. Here’s a young wanna-be farmer stymied by parental paranoia regarding bird flu. Everyone ... Read more

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Town Of Epping Wants to ‘Milk’ New England Dragway

Granite Grok - Sat, 2025-01-04 03:00 +0000
The busybodies running the town of Epping, New Hampshire, have decided to make a little more money from a local “race track.” On Monday, the town will hold a public meeting regarding by-law changes that apply to “THE REGULATION AND LICENSING OF MOTOR VEHICLE RACE TRACK.” Here is the full statement on the situation (Facebook) ... Read more

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No Time To Waste

Granite Grok - Sat, 2025-01-04 01:00 +0000
As we start the new year here in the Granite State, we also prepare for the upcoming legislativeseason. And what’s on the docket this year? Nearly 1,000 Legislative Service Requests(LSRs)—potential bills that, if approved, could become law. For those familiar with this process,this is a troubling sign. The New Hampshire House of Representatives was never ... Read more

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