Category Archives: GraniteGrok
Coal to the rescue as record cold grips the East.
Coal to the rescue as record cold grips the East. That’s right – the natural resource that Obama declared war against (his promise to bankrupt any new coal fired electrical plant) from before his first inauguration. |More at GraniteGrok.com
Data Point – Schools keep growing (by adding “overhead”)
If an average classroom size is about 25 students and we multiply that by the average spending, that gives us $275,000 per year per classroom. If you’re in a school with 40 classrooms that’s $11 million per year to run a … Continue reading
Posted in Budgets, Debt/Spending, Education, GraniteGrok, taxes
Tagged Overhead, School
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Tales from the BudComm – “Do you see what I see?”
“… the massive flurry of subcommittee meetings and report writing has calmed down and one can actually start to sit down and meditate, cogitate, and try to do something more than a surface cursory level analysis. Like “how come it … Continue reading
Posted in Budgets, Debt/Spending, Education, GraniteGrok, Local NH Politics
Tagged Budget Committee, Gilford, Skip Murphy
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To Silence One Commissioner NH Democrats Would Use The Government to Silence Them All.
… The legislation, SB466, was “introduced” the day after the tweet triggered delicate partisan political Pajama-Boy Pappas, with all but one State Senate Democrat listed as a sponsor. That’s a mighty powerful statement. |Read more at GraniteGrok.com
Democrats Suddenly Don’t Want Public Education Used as a Political Weapon?
Dave Solomon, writing in the Union Leader, opens a State House Dome Column titled “‘Edelblut bill’ aims to restrain commissioners” on the matter of Democrat-sponsored SB 466. The Legislation is supposed to keep the State’s Commissioners from engaging in political activity like running for … Continue reading
Posted in Democrats, Education, GraniteGrok, Legislation, Local NH Politics
Tagged Education, Frank Edelblut, politics, SB466
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Skip Murphy: Technical Difficulties – thanks for your patience!
I messed up in trying to institute a change (on GraniterGrok.com)– and blew it up. Thanks to Carolyn McKinney and the Support team at Nexcess in picking, choosing, advancing, falling back in trying to “scalpel” it. Thank the good Lord … Continue reading
GraniteGrok is Temporarily Down
GraniteGrok.com is not accessible while an issue is resolved with code changes that took the site down. Oops. Hopefully, things will be back up and running in the near future.
Treehugger writer believes things should cost more: Part 2
OK, Part 1 was done in April – too many Shiny Objects to contemplate so back to playing catch up. The premise was that we should pay more for what we buy because CONSUMERISM and ENVIRONMENTALISM! We all should be forced to … Continue reading
Posted in Economy/Economics, GraniteGrok
Tagged Consumerism, Environment, Skip Murphy, Treehugger
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NH LSRs rated by sponsor ratings – Part 5
OK, time got away from me – time to put up some more LSRs (which by this time, I’m betting some have been turned into bills). This time, those who the prime sponsor had a rating of 36% – 50%. … Continue reading
Tales from the BudComm: we don’t need no stinkin’ private sector
Cemeteries. Usually a very small part of any town or city’s budget but it is there. It seems that every town has at least one within its boundaries; mine, due to historical reasons, has a bunch of them. Many of … Continue reading
Posted in Budgets, Debt/Spending, GraniteGrok
Tagged Budget Committees, Gilford, Skip Murphy
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The New Media Militia 