In Its Rush To Please Ruling Class Progressives, Facebook Sort of, Kind of, Screws Itself

Remember when Facebook was super-giddy-helpful with announcing that the Russians were using Facebook Ads to influence the 2016 Elections? Hey, progressives look at us pimping the narrative du jour!

Well, someone in Seattle realized Facebook was collecting cash (probably a lot of cash) for political ads and failing to properly report who was buying those ads as required by law. |Keep Reading at GraniteGrok.com

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Speaking of Liberal Trolls, Here’s One From Facebook Who is Happy Sam Cataldo is Dead

The 603 Alliance Facebook page has a troll. Her name is Nanci Fletcher. According to her Facebook profile she lives in New Boston and most days she’s apt to hurl a bit of left-wing pablum our way. It is so devoid of substance it is not worth the trouble but yesterday she crossed a line so it’s time to give the troll credit where it is due.

Under a link to a story about the tragic death of former State Senator Sam Cataldo, Nanci Fletcher of New Boston wrote, “another seat for the Dems.” | Keep Reading at GraniteGrok.com

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“Moultonborough Taliban”

Tuftonboro selectman Chip Albee, a registered Democrat, referred to the “Moultonborough Taliban” when speaking about Republicans in neighboring Moultonborough. Albee alleged that Democrats had been forbidden from campaigning at the Moultonborough transfer station while Republicans had been allowed to, because “the Moultonborough Taliban was working its way.”  | Keep Reading at Tuftonboro.net

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HB 1344 – Time for Collective Bargaining Negotiations to (be) Public

HB 1344 will eliminate the exemption for collective bargaining negotiations and require that all collective bargaining negotiations be done in a public session.

Below is a guest editorial by Donna Green of Sandown NH, a member of RTKNH.

Salaries and benefits are the biggest expenses in public education.  They are also the biggest drivers for the continually increasing costs of running our schools with fewer and fewer students. | More at Right to Know NH

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Manifest Educational Hardship is Needed Relief

The House Education Committee recently held a public hearing on HB 1492, a bill that would respect families’ input and expand school boards’ options regarding Manifest Educational Hardship (MEH). It is already in statute (RSA 193:3) and often used by school boards to reassign children with severe special needs to private schools. | Keep Reading at School Choice for NH

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And then there are other kinds of trolls. Like Donna Sawyer from Windham

Like Al Letizio and Dennis Senibaldi, here comes this MIT alum (or so says her email address). Out of the blue, I get this email from her (reformatted, emphasis mine):

From: “Donna Sawyer” <dls@alum.mit.edu>
To: skip@granitegrok.com; steve@granitegrok.com
Cc: “Donna Sawyer” <dls@alum.mit.edu>
Sent: 2/5/2018 6:08:59 PM
Subject: Granite Grok site and Windham School District image share from 2/1 article

| Keep Reading at GraniteGrok.com

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More Flaws In HB 628 – The Program is Built to Fail, or Was That the Point?

I met with Richard Lavers (Department of Employment Security) briefly on Wednesday of this week to discuss the spreadsheets he handed out at the Commerce Committee hearing on January 16th (I am currently awaiting further updates). | Keep Reading at GraniteGrok.com

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Super-enfranchised Voters Have More Rights Than Legal NH Voters

I was invited to North Carolina to attend a US Commission on Civil Rights hearing by Jay DeLancy of the Voter Integrity Project, a group CNHT has been associated with for quite some time.

I had three minutes, as one of 40 speakers who also got three minutes, to make New Hampshire’s case regarding the disenfranchisement of legal NH citizens by what I like to call a ‘super-enfranchised’ group of voters from out-of-state. | More at GraniteGrok.com

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I hate Trolls. I hate having to spend time on them. So, I won’t

As many of you know, we’ve been having a number of trolls coming in lately.  Now, I have no problem with those that disagree with me or other Groksters but it is clear that’s not why they are here. For years, I’ve had one rule for both authors and commenters: |Keep Reading at GraniteGrok.com

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New Hampshire considers eliminating vendor beverage fees

The bill, which originated in the New Hampshire House, was passed there as a proposal to revamp the vendor fees, reducing costs for smaller beverage companies while increasing them for larger outfits. But when it reached the Senate’s Finance Committee, its members had a different idea – why not just do away with the fees entirely? | Keep Reading at New Hampshire Watchdog

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