Rich talked about Free Speech, speaking about CNN’s threats over an individual who posted a video that President Donald Trump retweeted. He then shared his disapproval with political campaigns in Queen City that hurts the city’s image in order to remove the incumbent. | More…
Free Speech and Destructive Campaigning Tactics
Posted in Elections, Free Speech, Girard At Large
Tagged Girard At Large, Manchester, Rich Girard
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Mark Zuckerberg Finally Figured Out Why Trump Won; Hint: It Wasn’t Russia
So what do you do when you’ve become completely disconnected from the ‘foreign’ world that all of middle America calls ‘reality’ and have no idea why you just got massively blindsided by a national election that you thought was a foregone conclusion? Well, you take a trip to Williston, North Dakota.
As Zuckerberg apparently learned for the first time while visiting oil workers in a tiny North Dakota town, there are entire industries that exist outside of Silicon Valley… More…
H/T Susan Olsen
Posted in Economy/Economics, Energy, Jobs/Unemployment
Tagged Energy, Mark Zuckerberg, North Dakota, oil, The Real World, Williston
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Guns, Cash, and Drugs
BOSCAWEN — A search and multiple arrest warrants lead police to arrest four people and confiscate guns, drugs and money.
New Hampshire State Police Narcotics Unit, S.W.A.T., members of Boscawen police and the Hillsborough County Drug Task Force executed multiple arrest warrants and a search warrant on Cornhill Road in Boscawen on Wednesday.
Inside the house, police found a cache of assault rifles, an undisclosed amount of cash as well as Oxycodone and crack cocaine. | More..
| NH1
Posted in Crime
Tagged Arrest, Boscawen, crack cocaine, Ernest Jones, Mary-Ellen Matthews, Nancy Turner, Oxycodone, Tratasia Day
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NH Medical Examiner releases 2017 drug-related death statistics
CONCORD — Is heroin the problem? NH1 examines the Chief Medical Examiner’s statistics for New Hampshire’s drug overdose deaths in 2016 and 2017.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner published a report Wednesday on the drug-related deaths over the past few years, including a breakdown into which drugs have proven deadliest in NH.
Although the dangers of fentanyl and heroin have become common knowledge, Attorney General Gordon MacDonald warned of the newest killer added to the 2017 data: Carfentanil. | More…
| NH1
Kate Baker: The State of Education Choice in New Hampshire
Kate Baker is the Director of the Children’s Scholarship Fund NH and she took some time at the CNHT Taxpayer Picnic to update attendees on the state of Education Choice and reform in the Granite State, including legislation, the scholarship program private and charter schools, education victories, and how the recent SCOTUS decision in Trinty Luthern v. Comer could affect New Hampshire and Education choice. | GraniteGrok
Posted in CNHT, Education, GraniteGrok, Legislation
Tagged CNHT, Education Choice, Kate Baker, Scholarship Fun
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What’s Behind Water Management and Taxation Schemes?
Next time your town or city wants to impose a ‘roof’ or ‘driveway’ water run off tax, you will know where the idea originated.
Tell your local officials to stop doing the bidding of the APA and the UN!
“UN agencies have reviewed the impacts of forestry and hi-tech irrigation technologies on water and are urging governments and other responsible actors to resolve conflicts, and take control of water resources and allocations. | More…
Posted in Climate, Environment, taxes
Tagged Granite State Future(s), taxes, UN, Water
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1 dead after plane crash in New Hampshire
WINCHESTER, New Hampshire (WWLP) – One person is dead after their single engine plane crashed just over the state line in New Hampshire Thursday morning.
Winchester Fire Chief Barry Kellom told 22News that around 11 a.m., dispatch received multiple calls for a plane that sounded like it was having motor troubles and may have crashed in the area of Upper Snow Road.
When emergency crews got there they could not locate the plane. | More…
New Hampshire Will Investigate St. Paul’s School Over Sex Abuse
BOSTON — The attorney general of New Hampshire on Thursday announced a criminal investigation into St. Paul’s School, an exclusive boarding school that has been embroiled in a series of damaging reports over sexual misconduct and abuse on campus.
Gordon J. MacDonald, the attorney general, said the investigation would focus at first on whether the school endangered child welfare or committed obstruction of governmental operations. In announcing the investigation, Mr. MacDonald cited several reports related to St. Paul’s over a matter of years, including an investigation released earlier this year into sexual abuse committed by teachers decades ago, stories about a sexual ritual among some students that figured into the rape trial of a former student in 2015, and a new report about another such sexual contest this year. | More…
| NYT
NH construction company is fined $160,000
BOSTON — A New Hampshire construction company was fined more than $160,000 in restitution and penalties by the state of Massachussetts for failing to pay employees the proper wage and overtime for nine public works projects completed between 2014 and 2015.
Attorney General Maura Healey’s Office issued three citations against Manchester-based Northeast Partition Specialties Inc. and owner Fredrick Breth, who were also accused of failing to submit accurate payroll records.
“Companies that do business in Massachusetts must play by the rules,” Healey said in a statement Wednesday. “Prevailing wage laws are intended to ensure a level playing field for companies and provide a real, living wage to workers.” *| More…
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Tagged fine, Massachusetts, Northeast Partition Specialties Inc, Wages
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NH Charges Out-of-State EZ Pass Users the Cash Rate on Tolls.
According to this article at ABC7 “E-ZPass’ dirty little secret: Millions charged cash rate” New Hampshire is one of nine EZPass tolling “agencies” that charge transponder users the cash price (as opposed to the discount) if they obtained their device outside their respective states.
| ABC7
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