Next Stop For Assisted Suicide Legislation: Massachusetts

“This is life-or-death, people. Solidarity.”

John Kelly of Not Dead Yet has made his way to a lot of places – including New Hampshire’s State House – to fight assisted suicide bills. He has had to fight in his own home state, Massachusetts. He’s been successful. And still, the bills keep coming back. | More…

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Library grapples with borrowers trying to pay fines with Chuck E. Cheese tokens

DANVERS, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts library is reminding residents that Chuck E. Cheese tokens are not an acceptable form of payment for overdue book fines.

Peabody Institute Library in Danvers, Massachusetts, posted on Facebook this week the library has had a surge of people attempting to pay fines and printing fees with tokens from Chuck E. Cheese and Bonkers— a Peabody amusement center —this summer.

The library says the tokens are not legal tender and cannot be accepted. | More…

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Faith leaders organize vigil today for immigrants facing deportation

MANCHESTER — A vigil is planned for today outside the Norris Cotton federal building in Manchester to pray for immigrants facing deportation.

The vigil is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. with a “Jericho Walk” around the building, led by the Rev. Eric Jackson, pastor at Brookside Congregational Church and president of the Greater Manchester NAACP. A “Jericho Walk” is a silent march, praying as the Israelites did when they brought down the walls of Jericho, said Jackson. *| More…

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N.H. Bernie backers say hindsight is 2020

Bernie Sanders spent his Labor Day morning making a pair of stops in New Hampshire that had the distinct feel of campaign events, as a Democratic analyst warned not to count out the elderly socialist in the 2020 campaign.

Speaking to a full-house crowd at the annual AFL-CIO Labor Day breakfast in Manchester, and to hundreds more at a rally in Rollins Park in Concord, the Vermont senator struck many of the same themes: Medicare-for-all, income inequality and repealing Citizens United. |More…

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Girard at Large On Air News Read for September 5, 2017

Manchester Ward Six school board candidate Jon DiPietro has released the results of a survey he launched shortly after announcing his candidacy for office.  The survey collected answers regarding priorities and opinions on a range of issues from spending to communication to education quality.

In a statement issued yesterday, DiPietro said survey takers identified Standards & Curriculum and Classroom Sizes as the top two issues.  Budget and Spending was ranked third.  The school district’s reputation seems to have some tarnish on it too.  DiPietro said eighty-five percent of those who took the survey disagreed that the district, quote: “motivates residents to move and to stay in the city.” | More…

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Mass Man dies after falling from NH cliff while cliff jumping

CAMPTON, N.H. (AP) — A man has died after he fell nearly 70 feet while cliff jumping in New Hampshire.

Authorities responded to the Campton-area Livermore Falls after receiving a report about a person who jumped from a large cliff and didn’t resurface. New Hampshire State Police and wildlife officials searched the water for the victim, finding him about two hours after his reported fall. | AP

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Why Hasn’t Jeff Woodburn Denounced Ray Buckley: Dem Chair Called his Constituents White Supremacists

Coos county New Hampshire is almost entirely rural and based on the 2016 Presidential election it is full of disaffected voters, the very people Chairman Buckley just called White Supremacists.

Ray Buckley has already doubled down on the remark so when are elected Democrats including our all Gurl Congressional Delegation going denounce him for labeling their constituents as white supremacists? | More…

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Opioid Opinions, Banana Botheration, Racism Recognition and Invisibility Micro-Aggression

Rich talked to Steve MacDonald of GraniteGrok for the New Media Militia segment.  They began the segment by talking about the opioid epidemic, wondering about frequent Narcan use.  They then discussed recent news concerning banana-related racism, anti-white supremacy and invisibility micro-aggression.

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Residents Question Parking Kiosk in Dover, NH

Politicos rely on endless scheming to promote long standing fake ruses that “it’s for the children.” It’s often only much later (if at all) that we find out the intended funding has been diverted to other entities listed on their “Priority Chart.” They long for control, and they have, at least for now, use of their full time employment in city government, to develop new twists to their agendas in an “ever (r)evolving paradigm”.

Elected officials, along with their “traveling merchant minions” (i.e. not locals), want to fill their coffers with money by “fleecing the sheeple”. | More…

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New Hampshire Democrats And Dartmouth Professors

While some light has been shed upon the truth, we still have a pro-violence faction in New Hampshire that includes Dartmouth Professors and Democrat politicians providing defense or cover for violence and intimidation that favors their political ideology. | More…

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