Granite Grok

For years, my son and I volunteered to help build community in Ossipee. We believed a public park and its Main Street building could bring generations together. On November 20, 2025, they demolished that building. The loss cannot be undone. The public still deserves to know how its decisions, donations, property, and money are protected. ...

If you have watched any of the City Council meetings for Concord, New Hampshire, in recent months, you’ll be left gasping at the level of misogyny. At the most recent City Council meeting, Mayor Byron Champlin shut down female councilor Stacey Brown. She kept her cool and made her point, sounding reasoned, logical, and methodical. ...

If the Left is against it, you will probably benefit somehow from keeping it or having it. It’s that simple. Dems defend illegal robbers, murderers, and child rapists, people who broke multiple laws. Arresting, jailing, and then deporting them is better for everyone, but they don’t want them deported – and will even help them ...

Vermonters are sharing stories of receiving ballots for the dead and gone. During COVID, Vermont started mailing absentee ballots to every voter on the statewide checklist (exceptions for those formally challenged) for general elections automatically and without request. The problem with this (well, one of the many problems) – as has been pointed out repeatedly ...

This week on The Independents, Carla Gericke follows the squeeze—from inflation eating your purchasing power to political outrage consuming your attention. On the menu: LPNH’s suspension from X, Governor Kelly Ayotte’s intervention, and the line between private platform rules and government pressure. Plus: Polymarket’s election predictions, the case for a property tax cap, an...