by David Brooks | Jul 9, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Electricity demand in New England on a typical hot summer weekday can get as high as 22,000 MW, says ISO New England, the folks who run the six-state grid. The forecast for today (July 9) as I write this is 22,500 MW. The all-time high was in August 2006: 28,130 MW....
by David Brooks | Jul 9, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The number of new COVID-19 cases and new hospitalizations in New Hampshire continues to decline, but the disease is still taking an outsized toll on certain groups: people in nursing homes, Blacks and Latinos, and men. You can find the data for this and more on the...
by David Brooks | Jul 7, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
That’s the question I tackle in my Monitor column this week (read it here). Spoiler alert: Variety is the spice of long life. The photo taken in lat June shows a giant ash I stumbled across in 2018 and previously wrote about. To my pleasant surprise, it is still...
by David Brooks | Jul 7, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Editors at wikipeida (meaning anybody who wanted to get involved) have decided that New Hampshire’s Mount Washington is the most important one. Hooray for us! If you search “Mount Washington” in wikipedia you’ll now go to the article about the...
by David Brooks | Jul 6, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
In parts of the county public health officials have been threatened and harassed by the pretend-COVID-isn’t-a-problem brigade, but in New Hampshire they’re respected, perhaps because Gov. Sununu has made Health and Human Services Commissioner Lori...
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