The Home Education Advisory Council (HEAC) held their bi-monthly meeting on Thursday, November 9th and made progress on several operational issues. We were again present and recorded their discussion; it is in six segments | More at School Choice for NH
Slow Progress for HEAC and Educational Neglect Bill
Posted in Education, NH School Choice, School Choice for NH
Tagged HEAC, Michelle Levell
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Filed So Far: Some Bills for 2018
More than 800 bills have been filed so far by New Hampshire legislators for 2018. Here are a few on which I’ll be reporting, with links to the texts of the bill where available. The Senate hasn’t released all its bill requests yet, so watch for updates in future posts.
HB 1707: The “Abortion Information Act,” requiring the physician who performs an abortion, or the referring physician, to provide the pregnant woman with certain information at least 24 hours prior to the abortion, and to obtain her consent that she has received such information. | Keep Reading at Leaven for the Loaf
Posted in Leaven for the Loaf, Legislation
Tagged Bills, Ellen Kolb, NH House, NH Senate
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NH Family Buys Luxury SUV with Digital Cash, Bitcoin
New Hampshire is home to many early adopters and users of cryptocurrencies. One recent example is the purchase/sale of a used Lexus automobile for crypto, half Dash and half Bitcoin. Parties used their phones to easily transfer funds within a Jaxx wallet—no bank involved!
Seller Mark Warden, broker of Porcupine Real Estate, works with property buyers and sellers who will transact in Bitcoin. | Keep Reading at Free Keene
Coos County To Consider Assertion Of ‘Unpermitted’ Cog Road Up Mount Washington
The Coos County Commissioners plan to review an environmental group’s claim that the owner of the Cog Railway didn’t have the necessary permit to build a “road” to the top of the mountain that may be used to give tourists winter-time rides in a snowcat. | Keep Reading at InDepthNH
CAMERA focuses on Newton schools’ Arab-Israeli conflict curriculum
Discord over the way Newton’s high schools teach the Arab-Israeli conflict and Islam began six years ago, when a Newton South parent, Tony Pagliuso, was made aware of a statement in an article his daughter had been assigned in a social studies class. The article, from the “Arab World Studies Notebook,” claimed that Israeli soldiers had raped and murdered hundreds of Palestinian women. | Keep Reading at Wicked Local.com
Tales from the BudComm – “raised by taxes”
Now those of you that have been reading the ‘Grok for a while know that one of my big bugaboos is the combination of TANSTAAFL and “free money” – the former being “There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch” (H/T: Robert Heinlein) and the “free money” really isn’t – somewhere someone is paying state or federal taxes in order for my hamlet to get “free money.” | Keep Reading at GraniteGrok.com
Posted in Budgets, Debt/Spending, GraniteGrok, taxes
Tagged Gilford, Skip Murphy, TANSTAAFL
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Manchester Pays $275,000 To Man Wrongly Arrested for Recording Police
Concord, NH – The City of Manchester has paid $275,000 to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit brought by the ACLU of New Hampshire (“ACLU-NH”) on behalf of Alfredo Valentin.
Valentin was wrongly arrested in March 2015 for criminal wiretapping after he used his phone to record two Manchester police officers while they were performing their official duties in public. Valentin was standing outside his own property in a public place and did not interfere with the officers’ performance of their duties. | Keep Reading at InDepthNH
Posted in Free Speech, Local NH Politics
Tagged ACLU, Alfredo Valentin, Manchester, Police
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Hearing on Springhill Farm Eviction to be Held December 6th
We have been following the case of the Springhill Farm which is run currently by tenant and relative of the trust owner Jay Sweet, and his family.
The Sweets filed a discrimination complaint with the NH Commission for Human Rights over the fact that the town has tried to evict them with no good reason given. | Keep Reading at CNHT
Laconia Daily Sun Aids Belknap County Budget Shell Game Deceptions
The shell game continues on County Drive. It’s understandable that this sleight of hand would lead to errors in the Laconia Daily Sun’s article covering the Belknap County budget.
Commissioner DeVoy, according to the Sun, said: “…it was poor budget management on the part of the delegation that helped create the current bleak fiscal situation for the county.” | Keep Reading at GraniteGrok.com
What did NH Democrats Know (About Sexual Predators) and When Did They Know It?
In the wake of Matt Lauer’s termination, and the self-immolation underway on the left, the news is littered with exciting tidbits from long-time liberal hypocrites about other long-time liberal hypocrites, like this.
On ABC News’ “This Week,” veteran journalist Cokie Roberts made a rather revealing admission in the wake of accusations from women that far-left Rep. John Conyers had assaulted them. | Keep Reading at GraniteGrok.com
Posted in Crime, Culture, Democrats, Progressives
Tagged Hypocrats, NHDP, Sexual Harassment, Zandra Rice Hawkins
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The New Media Militia 