by David Brooks | Feb 11, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
(Addendum: There are two problems with this idea. One is that the Concord tank still has all its workings, including the massive cap that floated on the gas. This is what makes it quite possibly unique among the nation’s gasholder buildings, but it would also...
by David Brooks | Feb 10, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Experienced New Hampshire voters will see something quite familiar when they cast their primary ballots Tuesday: A vote-counting machine that hasn’t changed in more than two decades. The AccuVote optical reader has been part of Granite State elections since the...
by David Brooks | Feb 10, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
We may not be ready to adopt “Live Telemarketer-Free or Die” as a state slogan but we might be getting close: New Hampshire is No. 1 when it comes to registering on the federal Do Not Call list. Last year, the Federal Trade Commission says people in New Hampshire...
by David Brooks | Feb 10, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
(This report is from UNH News Service. I’m a little surprised because I thought spent brewing grains were already used as farm feed – my neighbors the chicken farmers get a couple hundred pounds of them each week.) Wet brewers grains, the abundant residues...
by David Brooks | Feb 7, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The annual forward capacity auction run for the six-state power grid (I wrote about it yesterday) might have produced record-low prices, but it also frustrated some renewable energy creators because of a ultra-wonky regulatory issue: whether state or federal rules...