PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — The City Council in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, has rejected a motion to put a question on November’s ballot about whether to allow Keno gambling.
Portsmouth City Council Rejects Putting Keno on Ballot
Posted in Budgets, Debt/Spending, Education, Local NH Politics
Tagged Keno, Kenogarten, Portsmouth
Leave a comment
NH corrections officer pleads guilty to accepting bribes
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A former New Hampshire federal corrections officer has pleaded guilty to accepting bribes and providing cell phones, tobacco, and marijuana to inmates in exchange for money.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office says 37-year-old Latoya Sebree, who worked at the Federal Correctional Institution in Berlin, pleaded guilty on Tuesday. | More…
| AP
Posted in Crime, New Hampshire News
Tagged Berlin, Bribery, Correction, Prison Guard
Leave a comment
Girard at Large On Air News Read for September 6, 2017
The Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen met last night and though it was a relatively short meeting, it was eventful. The board received a presentation from Health Department officials regarding a new Web site they’ve developed to better connect people to their neighborhoods. It’s called My Manchester NH. We’ve got the link. It also awarded Emergency Medical Services Officer Christopher Hickey with its newly minted Bright Idea award for coming up with the Safe Station.
As to matters of substance, the board not only extended the downtown park smoking ban to Kalivas Park, it also made the ban permanent, though it will be reviewed in six months. Ward Nine Alderman Barbara Shaw, who opposed even the pilot program banning smoking and all other tobacco use in the parks, voted against the changes. | More…
Posted in Girard At Large, Local NH Politics, New Hampshire News
Tagged News Read, Rich Girard
Leave a comment
Putting NHDP Chairman Ray Buckley’s White Supremacist Remarks IN Context
New Hampshire Democrat Party Chairman Ray Buckley’s remarks last weekend should leave a mark. Yes, a Party Spokesman claims they were taken out of context but that’s not going to cut it because the actual context was not only evident, other recent events make matters worse. | More…
Posted in Culture, Democrats
Tagged Antifa, Mark Bray, NHDP, Ray Buckley, White Supremacy
Leave a comment
School Choice for NH: 2017 Legislator Report Card
We are pleased to publish our second annual Legislator Report Card! Grades are based on this session’s school choice bills with roll call votes. We followed and reported on many more issues and bills throughout the year, but only roll-call votes provide direct accountability of individual Representatives and Senators. | More…
Posted in Local NH Politics, NH School Choice, School Choice for NH
Tagged Legislature, Michelle Levell, NH House, NH Senate, Report Card
Leave a comment
Notable Quote – He would certainly know what Nazi stood for!
Socialism as the final concept of duty, the ethical duty of work, not just for oneself but also for one’s fellow man’s sake, and above all the principle: Common good before own good, a struggle against all parasitism and especially against easy and unearned income.
We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are determined to destroy this system under all conditions. | More…
Posted in Democrats, Progressives
Tagged Adolf Hitler, National Socialism, Skip Murphy
Leave a comment
Dem chair under fire for calling voters white supremacists
The chairman of New Hampshire’s Democratic Party has come under fire for comments that suggest some unregistered voters in the state are white supremacist.
Ray Buckley was responding over the weekend to news that a group with links to President Donald Trump’s campaign was planning on reaching out to thousands of the state’s unregistered voters. Asked about the subject by a reporter for WMUR, Buckley said the “organizing and activating of these extremists, these white supremacists, really could have a detrimental effect on the entire culture of New Hampshire.” *| More…
Al Gore Outsold On Kindle By An E-Book Debunking ‘An Inconvenient Sequel’
Former Vice President Al Gore’s new book is lagging in sales, and, in fact, is being outsold on Amazon Kindle by an e-book debunking many of the claims made in “An Inconvenient Sequel.”
Climatologist Roy Spencer authored an e-book, “An Inconvenient Deception,” to critique the “bad science, bad policy and some outright falsehoods” in Gore’s latest movie and book, which were released in August. Now, it’s ranked higher in Amazon’s Kindle store. | More…
Posted in Local NH Politics
Tagged AL Gore, An Inconvenient Deception, An Inconvenient Sequel, Roy Spencer
Leave a comment
In Case of an Apocalypse, Here Are 8 Foods That Last Nearly Forever
The news that, after 106 years, Captain Scott’s fruitcake was found by the Antarctic Heritage Trust and ‘smelled edible’, raises the question: are there other foods that have similar staying power?
The answer is, yes, several. | More…
The New Media Militia 