by David Brooks | Oct 25, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
The spike is the price of electricity indirectly caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which sent natural gas prices soaring, as well as the rise in the price for the same reason of heating oil, which heats somewhere around half of northern New England homes...
by David Brooks | Oct 24, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Everybody agrees that New Hampshire, like most of the industrialized world, needs more housing. Everybody also agrees that it’s hard to find enough skilled craftspeople to build the housing and that the result is too expensive. A partial solution exists, however:...
by David Brooks | Oct 24, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
With New Hampshire’s hospitals starting to fill with COVID-19 patients, there’s no longer any question that an autumn surge has begun yet again. And if that’s not enough, it looks like flu season will return in force following a two-year lull. “Many of us can’t bear...
by David Brooks | Oct 20, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
If you haven’t played with NewEngland511, the portal full of information on state roads in New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine, you have missed out. It’s quite well done and has some fun stuff, such as what those big digital signs are saying (Maine sometimes...
by David Brooks | Oct 20, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
The New Hampshire Executive Council has unanimously agreed to accept $50 million from the federal government to help the New Hampshire Electric Cooperative (NHEC) to extend fiber-optic broadband to 73 of the 118 towns in its service area. The landmark grant is the...
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