by David Brooks | Nov 30, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
AP – Maine’s highest court on Tuesday upheld the lease for a small section of state land for a $1 billion electric transmission corridor, a victory for developers who hope to complete the project. (Note: this is the project that was launched after New Hampshire...
by David Brooks | Nov 30, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Seniors – people in my age group – are often an obstacle to intelligent town planning. We don’t like change and we’re afraid that weird things like bike lanes and housing that’s different than single-family homes on big lots will...
by David Brooks | Nov 29, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
If there’s one thing you want when heading into the backcountry in winter, it’s predictability. But that one thing is becoming harder to get. “We’re finding in the last five years that (it is) much harder to get accurate longer-range forecasts due to the weather...
by David Brooks | Nov 28, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
The US Patent Service has changed the way it reports patents and we can no longer include direct links to each patent. You can find them here, using the patent number. By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire...
by David Brooks | Nov 28, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Bloomberg has an article (here it is) about tearing down Vermont Yankee. Apparently it’s going better than planned – the site may be ready for redevelopment by late 2026, four years earlier than planned. This detail surprised me: “There’s 1.2 million...