by David Brooks | Aug 26, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Nashua, N.H., has put out some of those Big Belly solar trash cans onto the street; they compact the trash to reduce the amount of times staff has to empty them. Paul Shea, a member of the Nashua Board of Public Works who has long been active in the city, put up a...
by David Brooks | Aug 26, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
The state has taken “offshore wind” out of the title of what is now the Office of Energy Innovation, part of the Trump Party’s irrational tirade against wind turbines, as Canary Media reports. New Hampshire’s GOP-controlled (but just barely)...
by David Brooks | Aug 26, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire legislators have jumped on the cell-phones-are-bad-for-kids bandwagon (which is a legitimate bandwagon, BTW) but they did it in a such a sweeping and vague way that everybody’s confused. Basically the law says that cell phones aren’t allowed...
by David Brooks | Aug 26, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Gather round, dear readers, and let me tell you the story of a nasty invasive insect. No, wait, don’t run away — this is a happy story. And it involves a cute dog named Izzy. Our story concerns the Asian longhorned beetle, a beetle native to east Asia that, no...
by David Brooks | Aug 14, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
EDITOR’S NOTE: There will be no Granite Geek next week. I know that’s a big blow, so as compensation I’m rerunning this piece from 2020 that discusses perhaps my favor NH history story, the Gravity Research Foundation. I am happy to say that the...
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