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Granite State Archive
Every document Granite State Report has obtained, written, or relied on, listed in one place with the provenance of each one stated plainly. Bring yours.
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Series I · Records obtained under RSA 91-A
Governmental records released to Granite State Report by New Hampshire agencies, and the requests and written questions that produced them. Government records carry no copyright. Take them, quote them, republish them.
NH Judicial Branch records response
Agency response to a Granite State Report records request.
NH DHHS response — SNAP work notice
Department reply to GSR’s questions on the notice.
RSA 91-A request — NH DHHS, work requirements
The request as sent. Filed under RSA 91-A.
Press questions — NH DHHS
Written questions put to the department.
RSA 91-A request — accreditation records
Companion request to the RSA 106-F accreditation reporting.
NH DHHS SNAP work-requirement notice (redacted)
The client notice examined in GSR’s SNAP work-rules reporting.
Cited in New Hampshire’s SNAP Work Notice Misstates Rules It Was Written to Explain
Series II · Statutes and state guidance
The law as it reads and the state’s own guidance on it. Public domain.
RSA 91-A, current text
Access to Governmental Records and Meetings, as amended.
Cited in New Hampshire Will Sell You a Record. It Will Never Build You an Index. · The Attorney General’s Right-to-Know Manual Leaves Out the Part Where You Get the Records
Attorney General's Right-to-Know memorandum (March 2024)
The state’s standing guidance document on RSA 91-A.
Cited in The Attorney General’s Right-to-Know Manual Leaves Out the Part Where You Get the Records
Series III · Granite State Report drafting files
Documents this newsroom wrote. Free to read and share with credit.
Proposed New Hampshire Constitution (2032 project)
Drafting document for the decennial convention question.
Proposed United States Constitution (2032 project)
Companion federal draft.
Commission packet
Terms and scope for commissioned public-interest work.
Series IV · Cited research, rights retained by the publisher
Reports and papers GSR articles have cited, kept here so the citation can be checked. Copyright stays with each publisher; these copies are held for reference.
A Brief Look at Long-Term Revenue Trends in New Hampshire
Homebuying Survey 2025
Amplifying Voices and Breaking Down Barriers for Homebuyers.
Cited in Economic Uncertainty in New Hampshire: Slow Hiring, Low Unemployment, and the Fight Over Tax Cuts vs. Public Services · Priced Out: Inside New Hampshire’s Affordability Crisis — and the Policy Choices Driving It · The State of the State of New Hampshire – And Where We’re Headed · The 60,000-Home Question: Can New Hampshire Build Enough Housing Without Losing What Makes It “Live Free”? · Navigating the New Hampshire Housing Market
The Economic Impact of the Granite State's Child Care Shortage
New Hampshire Rental Costs Continued to Rise in Early 2024
Cited in Priced Out: Inside New Hampshire’s Affordability Crisis — and the Policy Choices Driving It · The New Hampshire Squeeze: Why Working Families Are Falling Behind in a “Low-Tax” State
Free Speech and Private Power
Cited in Facebook, Free Speech, and the Case for Public Utility Regulation
The Private Abridgment of Free Speech
Cited in Facebook, Free Speech, and the Case for Public Utility Regulation
State of Homelessness in New Hampshire, 2024 edition
Cited in Priced Out: Inside New Hampshire’s Affordability Crisis — and the Policy Choices Driving It · Enact a Statewide Housing First Policy
2024 Residential Rental Cost Survey Report
Cited in Priced Out: Inside New Hampshire’s Affordability Crisis — and the Policy Choices Driving It · The New Hampshire Squeeze: Why Working Families Are Falling Behind in a “Low-Tax” State · The U.S. in 2025: What’s Really Squeezing Americans — And How It Lands in New Hampshire · The Granite State Workforce in 2025: Strengths, Shortages, and the Stakes Ahead
Child Care Affordability in New Hampshire (2024 price landscape)
Cited in Priced Out: Inside New Hampshire’s Affordability Crisis — and the Policy Choices Driving It
CDFA Tax Credit Application and Program Guide, 2024
The Call for FAA Regulation Change
Why individuals with ADHD and ADHD medication prescriptions should be permitted to become pilots.
Generative AI and the Future of Work in America
Cited in The United States 2025: Navigating Division and Opportunity
New Hampshire's Workforce Housing Law: a 10-year retrospective
Cited in Challenges and Solutions for Millennials in New Hampshire
Cognitive Sophistication and the Trump Vote
Cited in How Cognitive Sophistication Influenced Trump’s Voter Base
A Generation Without Representation
How young people are underrepresented among legislators.
Cited in Challenges and Solutions for Millennials in New Hampshire
The Public, the Political System and American Democracy
Cited in Reviving American Democracy: Trust and Engagement Challenges
Employee Ownership, Democratic Control, and Working-Class Empowerment
Economic Conditions, December 2008: the generations in New Hampshire's population
Volume 108, Number 12.
Cited in Challenges and Solutions for Millennials in New Hampshire
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Held out of the index
Files in the library that are not listed above, and why.
| File | Why it is held |
|---|---|
| Gmail-Request-for-comment_-the-unincorporated-territory-doctrine-Granite-State-Report.pdf | Emailed correspondence. Publicly downloadable now. Decide before indexing. |
| Proposed_Constitution_2032_Dexter_Dow_GSR.pdf (id 5316) | Superseded duplicate of id 5469. |
| NH-Homebuying-Survey-2025-Research-Report_4_29-1.pdf (id 2660) | Byte-identical duplicate of id 2599. |
| GSR_Commission_Packet_v1_2026-09-04.docx (ids 5360, 5365) | Two further copies of id 5353. |
| DHHS / 91-A .docx source files (ids 5657, 5659, 5687, 5656, 5663) | Working copies of the PDFs already indexed. |
| report.pdf (id 2600) | Untitled file. Needs provenance before it can be indexed. |
| Tumpa-Pal.pptm (id 5767) | Macro-enabled slide deck, unidentified. Recommend removal from the library. |
| PR_NH-Civic-Assembly-Housing.docx (id 5764) | Third-party press release, unindexed. |
| 22 article distribution .zip packages | Production artifacts, 8 MB to 154 MB each. Not archive material. |
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Three streams fill this room. Records Granite State Report obtains under RSA 91-A. Records readers send in. And the documents New Hampshire’s own offices publish every week, which the newsroom reads and files as it reports.
The state pages the newsroom watches:
- Office of the Governor · Press releases
- Office of the Governor · Executive orders
- Office of the Governor · Proclamations
- NH Department of Justice · Press releases
- NH Department of Health and Human Services · Press releases
- NH Department of Health and Human Services · Public notices
Every entry in the index above says which of these streams it came through.
Get a record that does not exist yet
New Hampshire will sell you a copy of a record it already has. It will never assemble one for you, and it will never build you an index.
Every person in New Hampshire has the same right of access under RSA 91-A. There is no press tier and no shortcut, and you do not need this newsroom to file. What you may not have is the time to write the request, run the five-day clock, argue an overbroad denial, and read what comes back. That is the part you can commission.
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