The Generation Locked Out of the First Job Should Build New Hampshire’s Next Newsroom October 28, 2026 New college graduates now face a higher jobless rate than the workforce as a whole, AI is thinning entry-level hiring, and adults under 30 trust their feeds about as much as they trust newsrooms. Granite State Report is recruiting the people the squeeze hits first to help build the fix.
A Tip Said Epstein’s Camera Room Ran a Blackmail Operation. The Invoices Describe a $42,730 Security Upgrade. October 28, 2026 A tip to Granite State Report said Epstein’s camera room ran blackmail. The DOJ records show a $42,730 security upgrade. Here is how to check the next claim.
Could New Hampshire Have Its Own Stock Exchange? The Answer Runs Through Washington, and Texas Shows the Bill October 28, 2026 State law cannot charter a stock exchange. Federal law decides who runs one, and the Texas Stock Exchange needed 525 days to get from its application to its first live trade.
I Built Software to Check UFO Videos. My Own UFO Was a Regional Jet. October 27, 2026 I built software to check UFO videos and ran it on my own sighting over Northfield. It was a regional jet. Why that is the point, and what the federal ledger says.
Second Look at the Rochester Lights: The Big Dipper, and a Flash GSR Missed October 27, 2026 GSR re-measured a reader’s two Rochester sky videos: the Sept. 22 lights match the Big Dipper, and the Sept. 10 light flashes 70 times a minute like a plane.
Seven Beach Clips of “Weird Shapes” in the Sky, Checked Frame by Frame: The Phone Drew the Shapes, and a Red Light Kept an Airplane’s Beat October 27, 2026 A reader's seven phone videos of lights over the ocean at dusk, checked frame by frame: the camera drew the shapes, and a red light kept an airplane's beat.
The Wrong Decade to Be Twenty: Who Is in Prison, by Generation October 27, 2026 Count heads and the prisons belong to Millennials. Measure who was most likely to be locked up at a given age and the law hit Gen X hardest, while an 18-year-old in 2023 went to prison at about an eighth of the 1993 rate. The difference is mostly the law, and the law keeps admitting it.
GSR Built a Machine That Checks UFO Videos. Here Is What It Does, and What It Made of Three Clips Over Northfield. October 27, 2026 Granite State Report's free UFO Data Analysis Engine: what it is, how it hashes, tracks, measures and scores a sky video, checks the public flight record, and what it made of three phone clips shot over Northfield, N.H., on Oct. 25, 2026.
Trump Said the American Dream Was Dead. For Children Born the Year He Was, the Odds Were 86 Percent. October 25, 2026 Children born in 1946 had an 86 percent chance of out-earning their parents. Children born in 1980 got a coin flip. The Federal Reserve's 2025 family survey shows the age gap in wealth opening back up, and New Hampshire, the third-oldest state by median age, shows the split as clearly as anywhere.
Empathy for Osama bin Laden Has a Stopping Point. His Own Words Mark It. October 19, 2026 Twenty-five years after 9/11, bin Laden's own documents show which grievances were real, which numbers were false, and exactly where empathy has to stop.
If It Were Self-Evident, Nobody Would Need the Granite October 19, 2026 NH State Police carved 'fairness' into a memorial. Their own reports count parades and Facebook followers, not complaints against troopers. Satire, with data.
Pose as a Friend, Work as a Spy October 19, 2026 Three 2025 NH laws let local police check, record and share immigration status and bar towns from stopping it. 28 agencies in 15 months; town votes changed nothing.
Appeal to Self-Interest, Never to Mercy or Gratitude October 19, 2026 Two 2025 asks of the same NH Senate: towns asked for a promised pension share and got a shelf; police and fire asked it to fix its own staffing and got $42M. Law 13.
October 19 in U.S. History: Nine Colonies Declared in 1765 That Only Their Own Legislatures Could Tax Them. New Hampshire Was Not in the Room. October 19, 2026 The Stamp Act Congress adopted its declaration of rights and grievances on October 19, 1765. The same date holds the British surrender at Yorktown in 1781 and a 1973 White House plan to let one senator check the Watergate tapes in place of a judge.
Who Owns the Machine Decides Who Can Afford to Stay Together October 19, 2026 Workers' share of output hit a record low and half of households own almost no stock. AI lands on top. How NH can change who shares in what the machines make.
Meta Took 97.6 Percent of Its 2025 Revenue From Ads and Ended U.S. Fact-Checking. New Hampshire’s 424 Legislators Earn $100 a Year and Have No Staff. Granite State Report Is Building a Verified Room Where Only Granite Staters Talk to Them. October 19, 2026 Facebook tried a constituent tool in 2017, then walked away from checking political speech. Granite State Report is building verified resident profiles, a page for every seat in state government, and a checked newsroom underneath both.
October 19 in World History: Japan and the Soviet Union Ended Their State of War in 1956 and Put Two Islands Off Until a Peace Treaty October 19, 2026 Japan and the Soviet Union signed a joint declaration in Moscow, the French army pulled out of Moscow, and Iraq opened the Dujail trial; four more October 19 entries follow.
New Hampshire’s 2026 Ballot Has 114 Open Legislative Seats, More Than Any Other State’s. Its House Has Averaged About 100 Open Seats an Election Since 2010. October 18, 2026 No incumbent was running for 112 of the 400 seats in the New Hampshire House as of the Sept. 8, 2026 primary, by Ballotpedia's count. With two open Senate seats, New Hampshire's 114 open legislative seats are the most of any state on the 2026 ballot.
October 18 in World History: Allied Prosecutors Filed the Nuremberg Charges in Berlin in 1945, and the Tribunal Promised Counsel to Any Defendant Who Could Not Find One October 18, 2026 The Nuremberg indictment was lodged in Berlin, Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes, and the Russian flag came down at Sitka; four more October 18 entries follow.
October 18 in New Hampshire History: In 1775 the Province Asked Congress for Advice on Administering Justice. A Constitution Followed 79 Days Later. October 18, 2026 New Hampshire’s request to the Continental Congress on October 18, 1775, came 79 days before the January 5, 1776, constitution at Exeter, whose preamble cites a recommendation from that Congress. The same date holds a governor’s railroad-bill veto in 1887 and a 1940 state Supreme Court ruling that upheld the refusal to count nomination signatures obtained by dishonesty.
New Hampshire’s Turnout Trailed the Nation’s in Every Midterm From 1982 Through 1998. It Topped the National Rate in All 13 Federal Elections From 2000 Through 2024. October 18, 2026 A Census Bureau survey and official vote counts agree: New Hampshire's turnout trailed the national rate in every midterm from 1982 through 1998 and topped it in all 13 federal general elections from 2000 through 2024. The state enacted Election Day registration in 1994.
New Hampshire’s Federal Trial Court Had One Judgeship for 189 Years. Eighteen Judges Have Held Its Seats Since 1789. October 18, 2026 Congress gave New Hampshire's federal district court one judgeship in 1789 and did not add a second until 1978. Eighteen judges have held its seats; the second was the first official the Senate convicted and removed by impeachment.
Nearly Half of New Hampshire’s Eighth Graders Reached NAEP Proficient in Math in 2013. In 2024, About a Third Did. October 18, 2026 On the Nation's Report Card, the share of New Hampshire public-school eighth graders at NAEP Proficient in math fell from 46.8 percent in 2013 to 32.0 percent in 2024. The slide showed up in all four reading and math tests, began before 2019, and left the state still above the national average.
We Are Due for a Revolution. New Hampshire Wrote the Lawful One Into Its Constitution in 1784. October 17, 2026 AI is learning to pay workers the least they'll take while Congress crawls. New Hampshire's constitution already names the lawful fix: reform the old government.
Federal Records Count 127 Deaths in New Hampshire’s State Prisons From 2001 Through 2019 and 63 in Its Local Jails. The Program That Kept the Count Has Ended. October 17, 2026 The Bureau of Justice Statistics recorded 127 deaths in New Hampshire's state prisons from 2001 through 2019 and 63 in its local jails from 2000 through 2019. The state-run reporting that replaced that count missed a large share of deaths nationwide, the Justice Department found.
Carroll County’s Median Age Rose From 48.3 to 54.9 Between the 2010 and 2020 Censuses, the Highest in New Hampshire. By 2024 Estimates, Its Seniors Outnumbered Its Children More Than Two to One. October 17, 2026 Census counts put Carroll County's median age at 54.9 in 2020, up from 48.3 in 2010 and the highest in New Hampshire. Belknap County went from 44.7 to 49.3. Here is what the 2010 and 2020 censuses and the Census Bureau's yearly estimates show about age, births, deaths and migration around Lake Winnipesaukee.
Four Attorneys General Rewrote the Same Records Rule. Only Congress Made One Stick. October 17, 2026 A 2009 Attorney General memo that no longer governs anything still explains why records requests stall, and why New Hampshire's Right-to-Know Law outlasts its administrators.
Tobacco Taxes Made Up 5.4 Percent of New Hampshire’s State Tax Collections in Fiscal 2025, Twice Any Other State’s Share. In Half the Years From 1970 to 2019, It Led the States in Tax-Paid Cigarette Sales per Resident. October 17, 2026 Tobacco taxes were 5.4 percent of New Hampshire's state tax collections in fiscal 2025, twice any other state's share. Federal records show the state led the nation in tax-paid cigarette packs per resident in 25 of 50 years, while its adult smoking rate sat near the median.
The Federal Casualty File Lists 226 Vietnam War Dead From New Hampshire. More Than Two in Five Were 20 or Younger. October 17, 2026 The Defense Department's Vietnam War casualty file, held by the National Archives, lists 226 dead with New Hampshire as home of record: 30.6 per 100,000 residents counted in 1970, above the figure for the states as a whole. Sixty-two died in 1968, and five National Guard noncommissioned officers from New Hampshire share one date in August 1969.
Canada Bought $1.44 Billion of New Hampshire’s Goods Exports in 2023 and $859 Million in 2025. Germany Has Been the State’s Top Market Since 2024. October 17, 2026 Goods shipped from New Hampshire to Canada fell from $1.44 billion in 2023 to $859 million in 2025, by the state's trade reports. Germany rose to $1.48 billion and has led every full-year count since 2024. Shipments to the rest of the world, taken together, grew. Here are the markets, the products, and the limits of the data.
