Last time it was city councilor Chuck Redfern showing his teeth up close to Dave Ridley’s camera, now it’s this guy, who appears to be a city employee as well:
Also, below is more video of the reason Dave was there in the first place. (more…)
Anyone who spends much time paying attention to the city’s politicians and bureaucrats will hear all kinds of talk about being “green”. Personally, I find it all very silly, but it will serve to point out their hypocrisy. Wallace Nolen used a freedom of information request to attain information on all of the city employees. He specified that he wanted it in electronic format, but the city refused, insisting on giving him pages and pages of documentation. Wallace sued and the judge (of course) found in favor of the city. So, rather than just emailing Wallace the info, they instead will unnecessarily spend money on paper and ink and print out a bunch of papers. Perhaps their motto is, “The City of Keene: We’re ‘green’, but only when it benefits us.”
Here’s the Keene Sentinel story with the details:
A Cheshire County Superior Court judge has dismissed a Vermont man’s right-to-know lawsuit against the city of Keene.
Judge John P. Arnold ruled earlier this week that the city responded appropriately to Wallace S. Nolen’s public records request. Nolen, of Barre, Vt., asked for the names, titles, salaries, phone numbers, e-mail addresses and work locations of every city employee. (more…)
Just yesterday a new activist website for the Upper Valley region of NH, UpperValleyLiberty.com, made a splash by announcing that next year’s 4:20 events up there will include open containers of alcohol! Of course, that has already happened here in Keene at some of the 4:20 celebrations, but it was never announced publicly. It appears that UVL’s blogger Kevin has upped the ante and has announce that he intends to enjoy an alcoholic beverage in public during next year’s events.
Will Keene’s 4:20 events also expand to include alcohol in 2010? As long as people are drinking responsibly, I think it’d be a fine addition, but it’s not up to me…
For a couple of years now we’ve been offering 1970’s “The Market for Liberty” in audiobook and .PDF forms for download free at Book.FreeKeene.com. Now, we offer a brand new audiobook, published in 2007 by Wes Bertrand, “Complete Liberty: The Demise of the State and the Rise of Voluntary America”. The book is inspired by many other great liberty-minded works in the past (such as The Market for Liberty) and is an excellent modern day look at what liberty is and how we can achieve it in our lifetimes. Complete Liberty is a highly recommended read for those interested in freedom. Wes also does a podcast which you can listen to on his site, CompleteLiberty.com. Visit that page for his introduction. Here are three ways you can download this book:
Aubern was on her way to pick Kurt up from the prison in Westmoreland and she left this message on Porc 411.
Dinner party to be held tonight at 6:30 at Athens Pizza in Keene at 133 Main St! (Athens Pizza is in no way affiliated with FreeKeene.com)
Hopefully, Kurt will continue to blog here now that he is out, so look for his first post from the outside – likely coming soon.
On the day of the general election I went to Ward 4’s voting location with the intention of voting for Free Keene’s Nick Ryder. As the city clerk had promised, I had indeed been removed from the voters’ rolls because I’d registered to vote with my “domicile” as my box at the UPS Store. On the day of the general election I was homeless and decided to register to vote as such. As happened during the primary, they did everything they could to prevent me from taking part in their system. (Interestingly, people like me who prefer outside-the-system activism are incessantly told that we should work within the system, but if we try to, this is the kind of crap that happens.)
So I tried to register as a homeless person and despite signing TWO forms under penalty of perjury (the “domicile affidavit” and the “voter challenge affidavit”) they STILL refused to accept my registration! I immediately pulled out my blackberry and QIKked their explanation. Turns out because the “checklist supervisor” didn’t FEEL like I was homeless, that was enough to deny me the right to vote. It didn’t matter one iota that I’d sworn an oath to my claim being true. My supposed right to vote was DENIED. Watch as it happened:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvIfcRGsD9M (more…)
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