Former Hooksett School Board member John Lyscars has filed a Right to Know request with the Manchester School District’s Human Resources Director Pamela Hogan asking for information on board members who take taxpayer provided health and dental benefits. As the request was made on Monday, the district is obligated to respond to Lyscars in some fashion by the end of the day today given the requirements of the law. | More…
Girard at Large: On Air News Read for September 15, 2017
Posted in Girard At Large, Local NH Politics, New Hampshire News
Tagged News Read, Rich Girard
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New figures show 5.9 percent of population has no health insurance
New Hampshire’s progress on insuring people previously without health insurance has apparently stalled the last two years, according to the latest Census report and data on the Affordable Care Act.
The Census data shows that the state was down to 5.9 percent uninsured in 2016, the 16th best rate in the nation, but it was a statistically insignificant improvement on the 6.3 percent recorded the previous year. And the state lagged behind most of New England. | More…
| NHBR
Police Seize Cash, Drugs, and Guns in Epsom
On Tuesday, members of the New Hampshire State Police Narcotics and Investigations Unit, New Hampshire State Police S.W.A.T. Unit and Epsom Police executed search and arrest warrants at 62 Goboro Road.
During the search, authorities found half a kilogram of suspected fentanyl, more than half an ounce of cocaine and a small quantity of methamphetamine, State Police said. In addition to the narcotics, approximately $24,000 in cash and five handguns also were seized, police said.
Police arrested David Frediani, 28, and Nicole Roskos, 29, both of Epsom. | More…
| NH1
State police respond to incident at NHTI
State police are investigating an incident that took place in a parking lot at NHTI early Thursday afternoon.“There was an incident that happened around 12:30. The New Hampshire state police responded. *| More…
Edelblut meeting with ‘Right-of-Center’ group described as non-political
Frank Edelblut, the state’s education commissioner, said during his January confirmation hearing before the Executive Council that he would not refrain from speaking to political groups.
He’s spoken to several conservative or Republican groups since taking office, and on Wednesday, he spoke to a private “Right-of-Center” meeting hosted by former House Speaker Bill O’Brien and former state Rep. Steve Stepanek. | More…
| WMUR
How NH Discriminates Against Legal Voters
A college student using a dormitory as a “voting domicile” and who also pays out-of-state tuition to one of NH’s state colleges can use the bulk mail address of the college to vote from his new “voting domicile.”
The same out-of-state student cannot legally sign a notarized state college domicile form to receive in-state tuition without the potential of the state college penalizing that student if it is discovered he is not domiciled in NH. | More…
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Should Manchester be a Sanctuary City?
Rich talked to the listeners about a Union Leader article, in which candidates from Wards 1-3 conveyed their thoughts about whether or not the Queen City should become a Sanctuary City. | More…
Posted in Girard At Large, Immigration/Illegal Immigration
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Abortion Advocacy Group Targets N.H. State Reps
New Hampshire’s new fetal homicide law has drawn the attention, ire, and cash of an experienced, well-funded political action group dedicated to packing legislative bodies with abortion advocates. | More…
Posted in Abortion, Leaven for the Loaf
Tagged Abortion, Ellen Kolb, EMILY's List, Fetal Homicide
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Modern American Red Shirts Silence Speaker Appearance with Threat of Violence
Eventually, the people will do your work for you. That should be Antifa’s slogan. Because that is, after all, the point of Antifaschistische Aktion. It is also the purpose of Islamofascist terrorism. To make people behave as your ideology requires out of fear and intimidation.
Assumption College in Massachusetts has canceled the appearance of speaker Charles Murray, not because of an actual threat of violence but because of the potential for violence. Antifa could show up to protest Murray’s appearance on campus, and they feel ill prepared for such conflict. | More..
| GraniteGrok
The New Media Militia 