S04 E017: It’s Math Guys, Learn It.

Featuring Hosts: Matthew Carano, Nick Boyle, and Cord Blomquist

Engineered, Mixed, and Mastered by Matthew Carano

Produced by: Matthew Carano, Nick Boyle, and Cord Blomquist

Show Summary: On this episode of The Freecast, surveillance in Manchester gets a challenge in court, a NH inventor saves lives with mailboxes, NH legislators still can’t do math, and Len screams his little face off.

• Carla Gericke on Tom Woods Show (Cord)
• • https://tomwoods.com/ep-1443-you-dont-need-to-see-this-list-of-bad-cops-citizen/
  • Manchester surveillance cameras: https://www.unionleader.com/news/courts/manchester-aclu-spar-over-surveillance-cameras-downtown/article_43636c53-6c60-5e70-9bcf-a94aa451d489.html?block_id=664693
  • Laurie List https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/unionleader.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/c/c2/cc2bfaad-7162-5946-84d3-244e029a3770/5c746b02e1e10.pdf.pdf
• Life-saving Mailbox invention (Nick)
• • https://www.fosters.com/news/20190706/hampton-falls-mans-mailbox-invention-seen-as-lifesaver
  • https://slidemeout.com/
• Week-long minimum wage challenge (Matt)
• • https://www.concordmonitor.com/New-Hampshire-politicians-to-take-week-long-minimum-wage-challenge-26690043
  • Bureau of Labor stats: https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2017/home.htm
• Teen MJ Use odds go down with recreational laws
• • https://www.fosters.com/zz/news/20190708/teen-odds-of-using-marijuana-dip-with-recreational-use-laws/1
• Portsmouth doctor reprimanded for treatment of chronic pain patient (Matt)
• • https://www.unionleader.com/news/health/portsmouth-doctor-reprimanded-for-treatment-of-chronic-pain-patient/article_d45611d5-f0e3-5a8f-ace5-46bc9d945c90.html

• Freecoast Liberty Outreach Meetup
• • Exeter 6:30 pm Sea Dog Brewing Co.

• Executive Council
• •  
  • http://nhexecutivecouncil.com/index.htm (talk about a blast from the past with this site set up.)
  • https://www.nh.gov/council/history/index.htm

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S04 E016: Drug Deranged Doxxing

Featuring Hosts: Matthew Carano, Nick Boyle, and Cord Blomquist

Engineered, Mixed, and Mastered by: Matthew Carano

Produced by: Matthew Carano, Nick Boyle, and Cord Blomquist

Show Summary (used for RSS & iTunes Summary): On this episode of The Freecast CBD crackdown forces Fresh Vibes to leave the state, a coked-out Hassan aid doxxes republican senators, and the most honest critique of Tombstone while things get froggy.

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• Fresh Vibes Is Moving To Maine (Matt)
• • https://www.fosters.com/news/20190618/fresh-vibes-eatery-moving-to-cbd-friendly-maine
• Opioids Continue to Ruin People’s Lives(Cord) 
• • https://www.unionleader.com/news/crime/man-surrenders-shelter-in-place-order-lifted-in-bedford-following/article_2497ccee-dfee-5eaa-ae3c-4a4dc6987d2b.html
• But New Hampshire is Otherwise Very Cool! According to Wallet Hub survey (Nick)
• • “Could it be because it has the lowest percentage of people living beneath the poverty level? Or that it ranks third in safety?”
  • “We call it a ‘citizen legislature’ for that reason. That makes our state representatives more accessible and more responsive to the general public. A concerned citizen cannot only reach their representative easily and quickly, they can even run for office themselves and have a realistic chance to be elected.”
  • https://www.nbcnews.com/better/lifestyle/these-are-2019-s-best-states-live-here-s-what-ncna1019556
• Blue Alert System (Cord)
• • “killed, injured or missing”
  • “If someone is willing to commit a murder of a police officer, there’s really nothing else they’re not going to be capable of doing”
  • https://www.unionleader.com/news/crime/man-surrenders-shelter-in-place-order-lifted-in-bedford-following/article_2497ccee-dfee-5eaa-ae3c-4a4dc6987d2b.html
• Doxing Senators fueled by “cocaine, psychedelics and alcohol” (Matt)
• • Changed the Wikipedia pages of Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and retired (but then still sitting) Sen. Orrin Hatch to include their home addresses and personal phone numbers
  • Rand Paul was only Senator to submit a victim statement saying he feared for his life
  • • Rand Paul survived the Congressional baseball shooting
    • Had life-threatening injuries from his neighbor
  • https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/19/maggie-hassan-staff-doxing-case-1370529
• State Budget (Nick)
• • https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/article/Budget-writers-put-final-touches-on-proposal-14018164.php
• State DOJ blocks DEA From accessing medical records (Cord)
• • “While the records may be held by a third party, there's nothing voluntary about the records' creation. These records are created by healthcare professionals to comply with a state mandate. Patients do not volunteer to hand over this sensitive information. The only way to opt out is to never see a doctor.”
  • https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190608/12293742357/new-hampshire-aclu-fighting-back-against-deas-warrantless-access-to-sensitive-medical-records.shtml
• Boy Scouts Save the Fucking Day (Matt)
• • https://www.necn.com/news/new-england/New-Hampshire-Scouts-Come-to-The-Rescue-of-2-Fishermen-on-Remote-Maine-Lake-510914701.html
• History You’re so basic: (Cord)https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/16/18680941/new-hampshire-basic-first-historical-marker-beginners-all-purpose-symbolic-instruction-code

• Freecoast Liberty Outreach Meetup
• • Seabrook - 4th Thursday

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S04E15: Show Title: ACLU Sues and New Sununu Vetoes

Featuring Hosts: Matthew Carano, Nick Boyle, and Cord Blomquist

Engineered. Mixed, and Mastered by: Matthew Carano

Produced by: Matthew Carano, Nick Boyle, and Cord Blomquist

Show Summary (used for RSS & iTunes Summary): On this episode of The Freecast the ACLU sues the city of Manchester, Sununu vetoes net metering, Rochester bans CBD edibles, and The Wentworth House gets a visit.

• ACLU Sues to block Manchester’s further use of surveillance cameras downtown (MC)

• • https://www.unionleader.com/news/crime/aclu-sues-to-block-manchester-s-further-use-of-surveillance/article_fb0fd9be-4c5c-5b56-bec6-7aeb25feb33f.html
• Sununu vetoes 2 more bills

• Net Metering (CB)

• • • https://www.governor.nh.gov/news-media/press-2019/20190603-veto.htm
    • https://www.unionleader.com/news/politics/state/sununu-vetoes-net-metering-solar-energy-bill/article_7fde7eb5-494d-514c-9f31-ec46d1fc0fec.html?block_id=664693
    • “These same consumers deserve the freedom to invest their own capital to become more self-sufficient and energy independent and less reliant on out-of-state electricity companies that control our high electricity rates.”
    • • These are set by an equation and approved by utility commissions
      • Increased supply would lower rates
    • “The current size limit is also a barrier to significant investment in existing and new small renewable energy projects, which would help keep our energy dollars in-state, drive economic activity, support good-paying jobs, and increase state and local business and property tax revenues.”
    • MIT study found that utility-scale solar is cheaper: https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/mit-economists-say-we-should-ditch-net-metering#gs.huaiah
  • Mental Health
  • • https://www.governor.nh.gov/news-media/press-2019/20190607-veto-sb5.htm
• NH lottery wins federal court case (NB)
• • https://www.unionleader.com/news/courts/nh-lottery-commission-wins-its-case-over-online-lottery-sales/article_76d049db-43d3-591e-81d7-9c19a9167662.html
• Court says education funding unconstitutional (CB)
• • https://www.unionleader.com/news/education/court-says-state-education-funding-unconstitutional/article_13726ebc-6df3-55dd-a9ca-2fcf60914c54.html?fbclid=IwAR0FVUQupWBQsw6vq3UDHkZsDa09gqYcr3jLuhlw3tK2qghtC55k5t19Z9g
• Former physician assistant sentenced 4 years for fentanyl kickbacks (NB)
• • https://www.fosters.com/news/20190603/clough-gets-4-years-for-fentanyl-kickbacks

• Rochester bans sale of CBD edibles which NH DHHS confirms is not approved (MC)

• https://www.fosters.com/news/20190601/rochester-bans-sales-of-edible-cbd-products
• https://www.nhpr.org/post/nh-dhhs-confirms-edible-cbd-not-approved-sale-nh#stream/0

• Freecoast Liberty Outreach Meetup
• • Exeter - 2nd Thursday

• The Colonel Paul Wentworth House
• I made a field trip out to it with my family on June 1st for the Down to the Sea, The Maritime Heritage of the Piscataqua Event
• The building was built on the frontier in 1701 in modern day Rollinsford, (Dover at the time and later Summersworth)
• Back in the colonial period the Wentworths were essentially the royals of the area.
• "Elder" William Wentworth came to New Hampshire in 1639 to Exeter NH as a follower of John Wheelwright. Elder Wentworth moved to Dover, NH in 1649, and was a proprietor of the local sawmill. He and his wife had 11 children, 9 boys. His garrison was the lone surviving garrison from the Cocheco Massacre in 1689. He is responsible for 95% of the Wentworth population in the US and Canada today.
• One of his sons, Samuel Wentworth would become responsible for the three royal governors. Another one of his sons, Ezekiel Wentworth would own what is now the village of Salmon Falls, Rollinsford and operated a sawmill on the Salmon Falls River. Ezekiel had a son named Paul and Paul built the house in 1701 100 yards from its current location.
• Paul and his wife had no children, so when he died, his nephew Colonel John Wenworth acquired the house. And John made all the changes that you see today at the house.
• The whole Wentworth family was in the timber trade and Elder William Wentworth was actually sent over to survey the trees, the family was some of the ones responsible for marking the trees as known in the Pine Tree riots. The inside of the house has a lot of thick pine, some boards that are over 3’ wide. Therefore, when Paul built his house he did so illegally. Probably thinking the King probably isn’t going to come all the way over from England to inspect.
• Frederick Newton Blodgett saw that the expansion of the railroad might see the demise of his ancestral house and thought that the house would fall under further disrepair if it stayed where it was. He was a budding businessman from Dover, MA so he decided to have the house completely disassembled and moved down to Dover, MA in 1936.
• It sits on the original property however moved to Dover Mass and then moved back in 2002.
• The first 2 owners owned slaves
• There was a lean-to attic that they slaves stayed in.
• At any time there were 8-10 slaves at the house at any given time.
• The lean-to attic was built in roughly 1750.
• They had a Rollinsford historical exhibit on the second floor. an 1887 bird’s eye view of what Rollinsford looked like at the time. When Rollinsford was created from Somersworth, it was named after their 2 most prominent families, the Rollins and Wallingford families.
• https://www.paulwentworthhouse.org/the-colonel-paul-wentworth-house/

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Featuring Hosts: Matthew Carano, Nick Boyle, and Cord Blomquist

Engineered by: Matthew Carano

Produced by: Matthew Carano, and Nick Boyle

Show Summary: On this episode of The Freecast NH permanently repeals the death penalty, the state sues Dupont, a hospital’s grade slips, and MJ legalization will have to wait another year.

• Frisbee drops from A to C (Matt)
• • https://www.fosters.com/news/20190529/frisbie-drops-from-a-to-c-for-patient-safety
• No Measles Vaccine, No Service
• • https://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20190530/not-vaccinated-against-measles-hospital-asks-you-not-to-visit
• NH Sues 3M, Dupont, et.al
• • https://www.unionleader.com/news/courts/nh-sues-m-dupont-other-companies-over-pfas-contamination/article_71956ea1-4a2a-5821-b737-2c44312e83d1.html?block_id=695277
• NH Repeals Death penalty, for realz this time
• • https://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20190530/new-hampshire-repeals-its-death-penalty
• Marijuana legalization bill re-referred to Senate judiciary (Matt)
• • https://new-futures.org/press-release-hb481-rerefer

• Freecoast Liberty Outreach Meetup
• • Dover 1st thursday
• Porcfest
• • June 18–23, 2019
  • http://porcfest.com/
• FreeCoast Fest
• • Early Bird rates end May 31st
  • https://freecoast.org/
• Book Sale at Avenue Victor Hugo Books
• • June 15th 10am to 6pm
  • https://avenuevictorhugobooks.com/

https://nhrtl.org/legislation/how-nh-legislation-works/

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Featuring Hosts: Matthew Carano, Nick Boyle, and Cord Blomquist

Engineered, Mixed, and Mastered by: Matthew Carano

Produced by: Matthew Carano, and Nick Boyle

Show Summary: On this episode of The Freecast Sununu vetoes, recovery homes get regulated, a Newfields teacher helps their students cheat, and the history of the NH primary.

• Sununu takes out the red pen NB
• • https://www.wmur.com/article/governor-sununu-vetoes-death-penalty-repeal-bill/27353697
  • https://www.unionleader.com/news/politics/statehouse_dome/state-house-dome-sununu-s-veto-style-draws-fire/article_de41ba90-a180-584b-8904-741aa0b38435.html
• Dover woman celebrates 100th birthday with 73 year old daughter she met for the first time a year ago. MC
• • https://www.fosters.com/news/20190512/miracles-abound-on-dover-womans-100th-birthday
• REGULATE RECOVERY HOMES! Cord
• • https://www.wmur.com/article/sober-living-homes-critical-to-many-for-addiction-recovery-have-little-oversight/27458419
• Newfields 4th Grade Teacher placed on administrative leave for allegedly coaching her students through standardized tests. MC
• • https://www.fosters.com/news/20190510/teacher-suspended-for-alleged-coaching-during-state-test
• Spaulding Turnpike Project will be Completed after 14 years Cord
• • https://wokq.com/massive-spaulding-turnpike-project-will-clear-major-hurdle/
  • https://www.fosters.com/news/20190511/spaulding-turnpike-traffic-relief-could-come-soon
  • $287.4 million dollars
• Private Detective Catches Nashua assessor napping
• • https://www.unionleader.com/news/politics/local/private-detective-s-report-on-nashua-assessor-leads-to-calls/article_fc946979-1e47-537e-b42e-a4ab963dbcdc.html

• Freecoast Liberty Outreach Meetup
• • Rochester - 3rd Thursday

• NH Primary
• • What happened before primaries?
  • • Caucuses.
    • Starting with the 1796, Congressional party or a state legislature party caucus selected the party's presidential candidates Before 1820, Democratic-Republican members of Congress would nominate a single candidate from their party. That system collapsed in 1824, and since 1832 the preferred mechanism for nomination has been a national convention.
    • Delegates to the national convention were usually selected at state conventions whose own delegates were chosen by district conventions.
  • Florida had the first primary in 1901.
  • NH instituted a primary in 1912.
  • Primary voting day to be on the same day as town meeting day, i.e in March. This just happened to be before any other state’s primary.
  • Instead of the modern method of voting for the candidate, originally you were voting for the delegate that was going to the party’s national convention.
  • The delegates pre-1952 were usually active in local politics, and usually would post-primary generally vote for the party favorite.
  • In 1949, the NH legislature decreed that primary ballots would also include candidate’s names. That delegate didn’t need to vote for the candidate listed under their name, however.
  • The first presidential primary after that was in 1952. And it was the first time an actual referendum on the candidates could be made
  • • Time magazine said at the time:
    • • Tiny New Hampshire (pop. 536,000) is normally little more than a speck on the politicians’ map of the U.S. It will send numerically unimportant delegations to the national political conventions; 14 to the Republican, eight to the Democratic. But last week politicians and pundits from coast to coast were carefully adjusting their fine tuning to get a good, 21-in. view of what is going on there. On March 11, New Hampshire will have the first presidential preference primary of 1952.
    • The top two on the Republican ticket were establishment favorite, Robert Taft & former general, Dwight Eisenhower
    • The top two of the  Democratic ticket were incumbent Harry Truman & challenger Estes Kefauver
    • • Kefauver wore a racoon skin hat
    • Eisenhower won and Kefauver won
    • • After the NH primary Truman decided not to run anymore.
      • Kefauver won 12 of the 15 state primaries, however he lost the nomination to Adlai Stevenson who said he wasn’t interested in running for president upto just after he gave the welcoming speech at the Democratic Convention.
  • Since 1977 it has been state law for NH to have the first primary in the United States.
  • There have only been 3 elections since 1952 where a winner of the NH primary DIDN’T become president
  • • 2008 Hillary Clinton beat Obama
    • 2000 John McCain beat Bush
    • 1992 Paul Tsongas beat Clinton

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S04 E12

Featuring Hosts: Matthew Carano, Nick Boyle, and Cord Blomquist

Engineered by: Matthew Carano

Produced by: Matthew Carano, and Nick Boyle

Show Summary: On this episode of The Freecast: Laurie List to be released without redaction, new legislation allows Kingston residents to burn a car, Tether’s up to no good again, and Meshech Weare as NH’s supreme leader.

• NH Court Says: Release List of Police With Credibility Issues (MC)
• • https://www.fosters.com/news/20190424/nh-court-release-list-of-police-with-credibility-issues
• New legislation will allow Kingston to Bonfire a Car (NB)
• • https://www.unionleader.com/news/human_interest/legislation-will-allow-kingston-to-rekindle-bonfire-with-car-on/article_cf87649b-ddfc-5ccf-b9c0-4581e570a646.html
• Nancy Strapko get $350,000 in settlement from Plymouth State for violating her “academic freedom” in reaction to Kristie Torbick case (CB)
• • https://www.unionleader.com/news/crime/fired-psu-lecturer-who-supported-counselor-in-sex-assault-case/article_357b2667-0a1d-5abb-be28-4874fc8bf8ce.html
  • • Atlantic wrote about this:
    • • https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/09/how-a-professor-was-punished-for-an-act-of-citizenship/570418/
    • “Kristie takes full responsibility for her actions with her ‘victim.’ I put this in parentheses because I am aware that her ‘victim’ was truly the pursuer in this case.” This “pursuer” was a 14-year-old boy.
• Polygamist (NB)
• • https://www.unionleader.com/news/crime/man-who-married-four-women-gets-no-jail-time-on/article_2ddbc9a3-e1c2-502d-bff0-87c686c8bc6a.html
• Tether is only 74% backed (MC)
• • https://www.coindesk.com/tether-lawyer-confirms-stablecoin-74-percent-backed-by-cash-and-equivalents
  • https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitfinex-allegedly-covers-850-million-loss-with-tether-funds
• NH Gun Bills Testimony (MC)
• • https://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20190430/passionate-testimony-on-nh-gun-bills

Freecoast Liberty Meetup Thursday: Dover

• The 1784 Constitution
• • Meshech Weare
  • • President of the Executive Council
    • • This was the upper-body of the legislature and the executive body
    • Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court
    • He was at the top of all three branches of government
    • He began as a town moderator
  • Pine Tree Riots
  • • In 1772 Weare was one of four justices to rule on the Pine Tree Riots
    • He voted to fine the defiant party 20 schilling, which was an extremely light punishment
  • Book Recommendation: Andrew Vietze’s White Pine: American History and the Tree That Made a Nation
  • • Native Americans in the “Five Nations” seeking peace would gather beneath a towering white pine, its clusters of five needles a symbol of unity.
    • The Mohawks called the Algonquin “rondak,” a slur meaning “tree eater” because they ate the inner layer of bark during hard winters to prevent scurvy
    • The English exhausted all of their native “mast trees,”
    • • Imported trees from Russia and Norway and Bosnia
      • These trees needed to be 3’ feet wide at the base and 36’ high
      • Had to keep pace with the Dutch, French, and Spanish
    • This was the driver of the Pine Tree Riots
    • Explains why the pine was on the first Flag of New England
• http://www.seacoastnh.com/president-meshech-weare/
• https://www.founderoftheday.com/founder-of-the-day/weare
• https://northernwoodlands.org/wood_lit/entry/white-pine-american-history-and-the-tree-that-made-a-nation

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Episode 11

Featuring Hosts: Matthew Carano, Nick Boyle, and Cord Blomquist

Engineered by: Matthew Carano

Produced by: Matthew Carano, and Nick Boyle

Show Summary: On this episode of The Freecast, Epping High student forced to cover up MAGA shirt, Assange is ousted from embassy, Bill Weld runs republican, and a loose discussion on the NH state seal.

• Epping High Student told to cover up her MAGA shirt (Matt)
• • https://www.unionleader.com/news/education/epping-principal-issues-apology-after-student-was-told-to-cover/article_af9fee3b-37e8-507c-aecb-63502126bd79.html
• Assange arrested in London (Cord)
• • https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47891737
• Former Mass Governor Bill Weld announces run for president as a republican (Nick)
• • https://www.unionleader.com/news/politics/voters/former-mass-gov-weld-announces-run-for-president-on-patriots/article_b6448818-bc0b-5ae0-aa1e-3ad9cdc4e94c.html?block_id=664693
  • On Rachel Maddow in November 2nd 2016, before the election. “Well I’m here vouching for Mrs. Clinton and I think it’s high time somebody did and I’m doing it based on my personal experience with her and I think she deserves to have people vouch for her other than members of the Democratic National Committee so I’m here to do that.” “I know her to be a person of high moral character” https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/11/02/libertarian_vp_candidate_wel
• Durham reaches $1.1 million settlement agreement with Eversource (Cord)
• • https://www.fosters.com/news/20190416/durham-approves-1m-settlement-with-eversource
  • How is this not extortion or bribery? Durham is dropping an appeal in exchange for money.
  • d_im_here_vouching_for_mrs_clinton_and_i_think_its_high_time_somebody_did.html
• Death Penalty repeal passes both house and senate with veto-proof majority (Matt)
• • https://www.unionleader.com/news/politics/state/death-penalty-repeal-passes-nh-senate-with-veto-proof-majority/article_6ba91bd6-fcf8-5986-add0-4dfb3f24fa09.html
• Secretary of State Bill Gardner (Cord)
• • https://www.unionleader.com/news/politics/state/gardner-urges-lawmakers-to-treat-all-voters-equally/article_ac0f480e-a64a-5fdf-a8d9-6c3d19fde4e8.html
  • “No matter how rich you are, or smart you are, when you are in that line at the polling place, you are the same as everyone. When you start fracturing that with exceptions, that is the path that leads to where the country was in the 1960s,”
  • Before HB 1264, NH was the only state that didn’t require voters to be residents
  • This bill basically says, if you want to vote, you have to be a resident, and therefore, you have to pay the same fees and taxes that all other residents pay

• Freecoast Liberty Outreach Meetup
• • Rochester - 3rd Thursday

• Colonial New Hampshire and its seals
• • I will be using all new style calendar dates to avoid confusion. Old style had the first day of the year as March 25th, Lady Day. In 1752, English speaking countries switched from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar, which changed the beginning of the year to January 1. That year Wednesday September 2nd, was followed by Thursday September 14th..
  • Between 1623-1640 when NH was “independent” it had no seal since John Mason only had a grant and had no charter. The 4 towns of NH operated autonomously and didn’t need a seal.
  • 1641-1679 NH was united with Massachusetts and used the Massachusetts Seal
  • In 1680, when John Cutt became “president” of NH, separate from Massachusetts, a new seal was made. Only one impression of that seal has been found, but it is in bad condition
  • 1682 Edward Cranfield seal
  • Feb 1685 James II ascended the throne and threw a wrench into how the colonies were organized.
  • In October 165 James II commissioned Joseph Dudley President, to rule over the Territory and Dominion of New England, consisting of Massachusetts Bay, Maine, New Hampshire and the Narragansett Country, or King’s Province.
  • In May 1686 the separate governments of the provinces united into the Dominion of New England were superseded by the central government so established, and their respective seals had no authority. (boo)
  • Later that year, Sir Edmund Andros took over as President and the dominion enlarged to include New Plymouth and Rhode Island.
  • Connecticut was added in 1687
  • New York and East and West Jersey added in 1688.
  • In Boston April 1689 news from England reported that James II was overthrown and Andros himself was overthrown by a popular uprising. From then until March 1690, was without any government, either by appointment of the Crown or by its own people, so the towns were obliged to take care of themselves! (gasp!)
  • Unfortunately, In March 1690 NH towns were for the second time, in Massachusetts jurisdiction and afterwards sent their representatives to the General Court in Boston.
  • Luckily it was short lived. March 1692 Samuel Allen was appointed governor of NH. New seal made. Allenstown is named after him.
  • Richard Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont was made governor in 1699. He was the first of many governors that were joint governors with Massachusetts until 1741.
  • Each Seal of New Hampshire in the Colonial Era had whatever the Seal of the Union of Great Britain Inscribed in Latin was with some variance on “The Seal of the Province of New Hampshire in New England.”
  • In 1775 the colony developed a separate colony seal with a fish on the left and a pine tree on the right with 5 arrows bundled in the middle to signify the 5 counties at the time and the 2 major industries on NH at the time.
  • In 1776 after independence was declared the seal had the words, “Vis Unita Fortior” until the adoption of the state constitution in 1784. It means “Strength united is stronger.”

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Episode 0410 Liberty House And The $360K Late Fee

Featuring Hosts: Matthew Carano, Nick Boyle, and Cord Blomquist

Engineered by: Matthew Carano

Produced by: Matthew Carano, and Nick Boyle

Show Summary (used for RSS & iTunes Summary): On this episode of The Freecast Cord and Matt talk about Sports Betting, Liberty House celebrates 15 years of helping vets without state funds, Portsmouth police want to commandeer private cams, and the state of education funding in #NH.

• Sports betting is one step closer to a reality, may become part of a Casino bill
• • https://www.legalsportsreport.com/30827/new-hampshire-sports-betting-2019-effort/
• Liberty House in Manchester celebrates 15 years of helping veterans (Matt)
• • https://www.wmur.com/article/liberty-house-in-manchester-celebrates-15-years-of-helping-veterans/27011798
  • http://libertyhousenh.org/
• Districts sue state over education funding (Cord is willing to talk about this and make it relate to the two items below in a concise way)
• • District claims that per-student spending needs to triple
  • There is little correlation between spending and performance
  • • NH is still a top-10 spender on education per student
    • NY State spends most and has worse outcomes
    • https://www.governing.com/gov-data/education-data/state-education-spending-per-pupil-data.html
  • https://www.nhpr.org/post/conval-school-district-sues-state-over-education-funding
• US outspends all other OECD countries on education
• • https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-education-spending-tops-global-list-study-shows/
• Meanwhile Claremont, the origin of the “Claremont Cases” seems incompetent
• • https://www.unionleader.com/news/education/claremont-schools-lose-in-lunch-money-due-to-late-paperwork/article_bd840615-e749-5049-b898-533fa1c9ff3b.html?block_id=664693
• Sununu Stands against new taxes
• • https://www.necn.com/news/new-england/NH-Gov-Chris-Sununu-Jabs-Democrats-on-Taxes-at-Conservative-Rally-507989621.html
• The Portsmouth Chief of Police is pushing for control over private and public cameras downtown
• • https://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20190402/portsmouth-chief-pushes-for-downtown-video-camera-access?fbclid=IwAR2k4uNaooH6z5lCBHEjNg3dFJdFve1UdsSOoyFtyr2sHKHi94vy6INI-Zs

• Freecoast Liberty Outreach Meetup
• • Dover - 1st Thursday

• Historic New England

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Episode

09.

Featuring Hosts: Matthew Carano, Nick Boyle, and Cord Blomquist

Engineered by: Matthew Carano

Produced by:Matthew Carano, Nick Boyle, and Cord Blomquist

Show Summary (used for RSS & iTunes Summary): On this episode of The Freecast, the NH house passes death penalty repeal, Nick defines involuntary admission, an update on Red and Shorty’s, and the pros and cons of legalization vs. decriminalization.

• NH house passes death penalty repeal bill, heads to NH senate (MC)
• • https://www.fosters.com/news/20190307/nh-house-passes-death-penalty-repeal-bill
• Involuntary admissions (NIck)
• • RSA 135-C:27
  • • person has inflicted serious bodily injury on himself or has attempted suicide or serious self-injury and there is a likelihood the act or attempted act will recur if admission is not ordered
    • the person has threatened to inflict serious bodily injury on himself and there is likelihood that an act or attempt of serious self-injury will occur if admission is not ordered
    • The person's behavior demonstrates that he so lacks the capacity to care for his own welfare that there is a likelihood of death, serious bodily injury, or serious debilitation if admission is not ordered.
    • The person meets all of the following criteria:
    • • The person has been determined to be severely mentally disabled
      • The person has had at least one involuntary admission, within the last 2 years
      • The person has no guardian of the person appointed
      • The person is not subject to a conditional discharge
      • The person has refused the treatment determined necessary by a mental health program approved by the department
      • A psychiatrist at a mental health program approved by the department has determined, based upon the person's clinical history, that there is a substantial probability that the person's refusal to accept necessary treatment will lead to death, serious bodily injury, or serious debilitation if admission is not ordered.
  • Some NH stats
  • • 35,449 people with serious mental illness
    • 848 adults with serious mental illness incarcerated
    • 158 public psychiatric beds
  • http://www.drcnh.org/commitment.html https://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/browse-by-state/new-hampshire http://www.gencourtmobile.com/RSA/Section/135
• Seabrook Nuclear Plant license extended until at least 2050 (Cord)
• • https://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20190312/nrc-approves-seabrook-plants-license-extension
• Follow up: Red and Shorty’s closes for good (Nick)
• • https://www.fosters.com/news/20190312/dovers-red-and-shortys-closes-for-good
• NH House votes to legalize sports betting (Matt)
• • https://nh1.com/nh1/new-hampshire-house-approves-legalizing-sports-betting/?fbclid=IwAR2RApVwGWzKQ5ZJViuOTndd2IWcQ_BVRg6jWJKYrPCyWL64NAFP2LaTBiA

• Freecoast Liberty Outreach Meetup
• • Rochester - 3rd Thursday

• New Hampshire Ski History
• • 34 active ski areas 21 of them have chair lifts
  • http://newenglandskimuseum.org/new-hampshire-ski-history-for-4rth-graders/
  • New Hampshire was the center of skiing in the United States from the 1930s into the 1950s. Skiing first became popular in northern Europe then crossed the Atlantic to the cities of New York and Boston. Because New Hampshire was so close to Boston, skiing became very important to New Hampshire.
  • Three groups of people were important to skiing growing in New Hampshire. First, the workers from Scandinavia who moved to the paper mills around Berlin. Second, college students from Dartmouth College who were part of the Dartmouth Outing Club. And third, people who were members of the Boston-based Appalachian Mountain Club.
  • New Hampshire was the first place in America to have many things you see now at every ski resort. New Hampshire was the first to have trails cut just for downhill skiing. The Granite State was the first to have overhead wire-rope ski tows and an aerial tramway. Many famous races and styles of racing took place in New Hampshire. Professional ski patrols and ski schools began in New Hampshire. These new ideas, plus ski villages, started a whole new tourism industry.
  • Rope Tows and Chairlifts
  • Even though the first rope tow in the United States was in Woodstock, Vermont, many new ideas for getting skiers up a mountain were developed in New Hampshire. Two new style rope tows opened in 1936. The Dartmouth Outing Club built one on Oak Hill in Hanover and the second one was built at Moody’s Farm in Jackson. These used wire instead of fiber to make the rope. This rope was then suspended above the skiers’ heads rather than at waist level. The skier grabbed a J-shaped handle that was attached to the rope and was pulled up the mountain.
  • The first chairlift in New Hampshire was built in 1937 on Rowe Mountain in Gilford, just a year after chairlifts were invented in Idaho. The next year, 1938, two exciting and new ski lifts were built. One was at Cannon Mountain in Franconia and the other was at Mount Cranmore in North Conway.
  • The first chairlift in the Eastern U.S. at Belknap Mountain, now called Gunstock.
  • Cannon Mountain built the Cannon Mountain Aerial Tramway. A tramway is a large box that hangs from a cable. Many people can board a tram and travel to the top of the mountain together. Many people thought that trams would be the most popular ski lifts in America, but chairlifts became cheaper to run and easier to fix.
  • New Hampshire’s Legacy
  • New Hampshire was a hub for skiing through the 1930s through the 1950s. The state helped promote the state through colorful maps, posters, and brochures. Later, Vermont and ski areas further west became more popular than New Hampshire.
  • Even so, skiing is still very important to New Hampshire today. In 2006-7 people spent over 700 million dollars in the state because of skiing. Ski resorts also employed over 17,000 people during that year.
  • It isn’t surprising that New Hampshire lost its early lead in the development of skiing in America. What is remarkable is that New Hampshire played such a large role in the rise of skiing. Ski resorts and areas might be very different if it wasn’t for the ideas and inventions of New Hampshire skiers.

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Episode 08.

Featuring Hosts: Matthew Carano, Nick Boyle, and Cord Blomquist

Engineered by: Matthew Carano

Produced by: Matt Carano, and Nick Boyle

Show Summary (used for RSS & iTunes Summary): On this Episode of The Freecast the Red Flag Law gets a hearing in Concord, deregulation spikes sales in CBD, HIV may have a cure, and Dover says no to a private music venue.

• New owners of greyhound park want 100 percent employee owned casino
• • https://www.unionleader.com/news/business/seabrook-greyhound-park-owner-describes-vision-for-employee-owned-casino/article_d82f3841-dc81-58f3-8df3-6d21950e8d31.html
  • https://smallbusiness.chron.com/employeeowned-company-work-44184.html
• Red Flag Law hearing today (MC)
• • https://www.unionleader.com/news/politics/both-sides-brace-for-battle-over-red-flag-law-today/article_ed375c77-964c-5254-9807-98500b3a2849.html?block_id=664688
  • https://www.unionleader.com/news/crime/lawmakers-with-pearl-necklaces-at-hearing-on-red-flag-bill/article_ef9156c0-db59-59e9-9bd2-e028f50aa103.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share
• Deregulation sees spike in CBD sales (Nick)
• • https://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20190303/cbd-products-growing-in-popularity
• Portsmouth’s Zagster bike rentals have net cost of $49K (MC)
• • https://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20190305/portsmouths-zagster-bike-rentals-have-net-cost-of-49k
• Second man may be cured of AIDS virus after transplant (MC)
• • https://www.seacoastonline.com/zz/news/20190304/second-man-may-be-cured-of-aids-virus-after-transplant
• Music venue run out of private home (Nick)
• • https://www.fosters.com/news/20190304/popular-home-music-venue-shut-down-by-dover

• Freecoast Liberty Outreach Meetup
• • Dover - 1st Thursday

• Mt Monadnock
• • 3165 ft
  • 1,000 ft taller than any other peak in over 30 mile radius
  • 2,150 ft prominence
  • It is so isolated that American geologists use Monadnock as a term for a mountain or hill that rises abruptly compared to the rest of the landscape
  • • It’s like Erebor
  • Monadnock derives from an Abenaki term, loosely translated as “the mountain that stands alone
  • The earliest recorded ascent was in 1725 by Captain Samuel Willard and his fourteen rangers. They camped out there to lookout for indigenous americans.
  • Strange records
  • • Garry Harrington, hiked Monadnock 16 times in 24 hours
    • Larry Davis, hiked the summit daily for 2,850 days (7.8 years)
  • 3rd most popularly hiked mountain in the world at 125,000 hikers a year
  • The summit is barren, this isn’t because of a natural tree line, but because there were fires set by settlers sometime between 1810 and 1820 that raged for weeks destroying all the trees and the top-soil
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote a long poem about the mountain, which is one of his most famous poems, called “Monadnock”.
  • Other Transcendentalists Henry David Thoreau and Margaret Fuller visited the Monadnock several times and wrote about it.

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