by David Brooks | Sep 6, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
Going through a footlocker of old newspaper clips, I found this Science Briefs package that I wrote in the April 9, 1989, edition of the Nashua Telegraph, when I was an editor for the Sunday paper and its Sci/Tech section. This 34-year-old piece might be the first...
by David Brooks | Sep 6, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
It has long been a claim by New Hampshire anti-solar folks that net metering (paying people with rooftop solar when they send electricity back to the grid) is unfair, shifting costs to people who don’t have solar. Not so, say folks who should know: The...
by David Brooks | Sep 6, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
VTDigger reports that the road to sleepy Hollow Farm, the ultimate Vermont photo site, will be closed during leaf-peeping because Tiktok etc. has increased the tourist flow to unmanageable levels. Full story is here. Last year, in an attempt to address traffic woes,...
by David Brooks | Sep 5, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
The weird thing about New Hampshire’s housing crisis from my point of view is that it seems to have erupted out of nowhere. One day we had a tight but bearable market for rentals and home ownership; the next day there wasn’t an open apartment south of the White...
by David Brooks | Sep 5, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through Sept. 2. *** Adaptive Angle Sensor ALLEGRO MICROSYSTEMS, LLC, Manchester,...