Monthly Archives: August 2017
Newport Baptist Church Buys Claremont Building for $700
Claremont — The City Council has accepted a bid of $700 to sell the former Unitarian Universalist Church on Broad Street to Lake Sunapee Baptist Church of Newport. Planning and Development Director Nancy Merrill said it was the only bid the … Continue reading
We Will Never Win the Culture War if We Give Them an Unimpeded Run of the Field
Nature abhors a vacuum so if we don’t make a case for constitutional conservatism and conservatarianism in New Hampshire someone else might. And that might not be constitutional conservatism at all. | More… | GraniteGrok
Bigfoot spotting: NH town offers ‘Sasquatch Scavenger Hunt’
SANDOWN — Bigfoot has been lurking around one New Hampshire town and they want you to find it. The commission announced a Bigfoot sighting in Sandown Wednesday and invited groups to join them on a Sandown Sasquatch Scavenger Hunt August 26. | … Continue reading
Keene New Hampshire’s Got Gas And It Makes Them Uncomfortable
The company runs a plant that pumps a propane-air mixture direct by pipe to businesses and residents downtown, as well as to some big box stores in a shopping center about a 10-minute drive away. Eventually, the company wants to … Continue reading
Why Albany NH Struggles: Most of the Town is Federal Land
ALBANY — While the White Mountain National Forest brings thousands of recreation-minded visitors to the area each year, hosting the forest isn’t always fun for the small town of Albany. Albany selectmen say the town has gotten overwhelmed by the … Continue reading
Trump’s HHS to NH: End Illegal Medicaid Prop-Up Payments or Else
CONCORD — The Trump administration has given the state of New Hampshire until the end of 2018 to eliminate health care provider payments that support Medicaid expansion – or else face a “deferral or disallowance” of the entire New Hampshire … Continue reading
N.H. Campaign Finance Activists to March for ‘Granny D’ in Dublin
The New Hampshire Rebellion will hold its fourth annual “Granny D” memorial walk this weekend, commemorating the late campaign finance reformer’s cross-country journey to get money out of politics. Organizers say there’s a lot of work left to be done at the … Continue reading
U.N.: More Than 600,000 Syrians Have Returned Home In 2017
A rising number of Syrians who fled are returning to their homes, with more than 600,000 going back in the first seven months of this year, according to the International Organization for Migration. The U.N. migration agency says that number is … Continue reading
Media Noise Ignored
“They want politics to be going on everywhere all the time”, what does that remind you of? Safe spaces? Trigger words? Firing an employee for views not held by a company? Shouting down and silencing people whose view are not … Continue reading
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NH DHHS proposes taxpayer funding of sex change surgery
The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services has proposed to eliminate the Medicaid rule that prohibits the program from funding sex reassignment surgeries. Disturbingly, while the proposed rule change hasn’t even been heard yet, Girard at Large has obtained a letter sent … Continue reading
The New Media Militia 