by David Brooks | Dec 14, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire is pretty homogeneous but it’s not completely a bunch of English-speaking white folks. The New Hampshire Center for Justice and Equity summarized our bilingual status: Roughly 8% of the state’s population (roughly 103,500 people) speak a language...
by David Brooks | Dec 14, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
I went to a vaccine conference at Dartmouth last week to learn more about the most depressing piece of research I’ve ever encountered. Amazingly, I came away a tiny bit more optimistic. The ongoing research by Brendan Nyhan, a professor of government at Dartmouth...
by David Brooks | Dec 13, 2023 | Blog
A federal judge has rejected a lawsuit saying that the Merrimack Station coal-fired power plant in Bow was releasing too much hot water into the Merrimack River, violating its operating permit. The ruling by Judge Joseph Laplante is very long – 86 pages...
by David Brooks | Dec 13, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
A lot of work is going into understanding that new respiratory illness in dogs. UNH News services reports a partial breakthrough at that school: The UNH researchers identified a small portion of the genome of a previously uncharacterized bacteria that may be causing...
by David Brooks | Dec 12, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
One of the pleasant surprises for creating a low-carbon economy has been the way Maine households have embraced electric heat pumps, switching away from the nasty No. 2 fuel oil that is so common in Maine (and New Hampshire). Annie Ropeik (a name many will remember...
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