by David Brooks | Jan 10, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Creating pollution is often cost-free and getting rid of it can be costly, so no wonder humans generate so much. The “market based solution” (i.e., channeling humanity’s endless greed) is either to make pollution expensive, which is the idea of fines...
by David Brooks | Jan 10, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Note: This story ran Monday. The same day, the concert was postponed a month because of COVID. Sigh …. Almost 300 people could be sitting in the Bank of NH Stage this week to watch a rocking country show on the stage, but the real question is: How many will also...
by David Brooks | Jan 7, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
A raindrop falling in New London, N.H. flows west to the Connecticut River and down to Long Island Sound. If it fell a few miles east in Warner, it would flow east to the Merrimack River and down to the Gulf of Maine. How do I know this? Because of a very cool...
by David Brooks | Jan 6, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Jan. 2 to Jan. 9. *** Atrium Medical Assigned Patent for Chest Drainage Systems, Methods Atrium Medical, Merrimack, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 11,213,617, initially...
by David Brooks | Jan 5, 2022 | Newsletter
For a long time I have started each year by listing a bunch of geekish laws being proposed by New Hampshire’s massive state legislature, a listing done partly for information and partly for fun. I’m not doing it this year, however, because we have more...
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