by David Brooks | Jan 13, 2020 | Blog
New Hampshire has a large (more than 25,000 acres, surrounded by a 12-foot-high fence that’s 26 miles long) private hunting park in Sullivan County that relatively few people know about. If you’ve heard of it, that’s probably because of this NHPR story...
by David Brooks | Jan 9, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire town meetings are concerned with the local-est of local issues – two-acre zoning or buying a new fire truck or whether to spend money on a municipal fireworks display for July 4. But some folks are trying to get a national, even global, issue on...
by David Brooks | Jan 8, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
An unusual bill that would allow an online college based in Nashua called Signum University to grant degrees, many for majors that are heavy on fantasy literature such as “Lord of the Rings”, will likely go before the N.H. House of Representatives later...
by David Brooks | Jan 8, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
By now you’ve probably heard of electric-vehicle “range anxiety,” where drivers worry they’ll run out of power before they can get to a charging station. If your vehicle propels itself by blowing up liquefied dinosaur remains you might feel smug but maybe...
by David Brooks | Jan 8, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
NHPR’s Annie Ropeik has a story about EPA approving a sort of group-hug methodology for reducing the amount of nitrogen that ends up in the Great Bay from surrounding towns. This is a common situation where the problem is worse than the sum of the parts because...
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