by David Brooks | Apr 3, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
The Valley News has an article (here it is) about the arrival of community power in NH, which lets towns/cities buy power on the wholesale market and sell it to residents. While the non-profit Coalition of New Hampshire has gotten most of the attention, there are...
by David Brooks | Apr 2, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
NOTE: You can see lots of Geoff Forester’s photos at the Monitor version of this article (here). Many good ideas seem obvious once somebody has thought of them. RapidPole is a good example. “It’s kind of surprising that something like this hasn’t been done...
by David Brooks | Apr 2, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
People are continuing to move into New Hampshire, fueling a small population increase that was seen in all 10 of the state’s counties in the 12 months leading up to last July, according to new population estimates from the Census Bureau. “New Hampshire was one of the...
by David Brooks | Mar 30, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
Business boosters are excited about the expansion of biotech firm United Therapeutics in New Hampshire but the corporate hangar it will build at Concord Municipal Airport is exciting for another reason: Glulam. Lots and lots of glulam. “The entire skeleton and truss...
by David Brooks | Mar 29, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire has always been of two minds about our forests: Do we keep or do we cut? Forests shape our economy and we want to use them, but they define our personality as much as anything does and we want to enjoy them. Those two desires have been in conflict for...
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