by David Brooks | Jun 19, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
An online news source with the clumsy name The Conversation has a long, well-reported piece on why ticks carry so many bad diseases. You can read it here. Contained in every bite of this infuriating, insatiable pest is also a trove of social, environmental and...
by David Brooks | Jun 18, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Not everybody is crazy about utilty-owned solar; they fear the utilities will favor their own setup and squash independents. Nonetheless, let’s celebrate a just-barely-under-the-state’s-silly-5MW-net-metering-limit array, via a Unitil press release: Unitil...
by David Brooks | Jun 18, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Something weird is going to happen Saturday in Concord: It won’t rain. Not raining on Saturdays didn’t used to be weird, but then The Spring of 2025 arrived with orders to dampen our weekends. Dampen them, it did. According to the National Weather Service, the gauge...
by David Brooks | Jun 18, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
I hate overreacting to bad news, but I don’t think this statement is an overreaction: All emails, texts and phone calls that you get from companies, non-profits and government organizations are scams. Yes, all of them. Sounds extreme, I know, but this is the only...
by David Brooks | Jun 18, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Every year amateur radio operators, also known as ham radio operators, participate in a nationwide event called Field Day on June 28 and June 29, 2025. The primary objective of Field Day is for ham operators to practice transmitting and receiving from remote...
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