by David Brooks | Feb 13, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Amid all the high-profile discussion of possible changes to New Hampshire election laws and processes, a trio of less mainstream proposals were shot down Tuesday. One of them would have used mathematics to draw legislative districts, and the other two would allow...
by David Brooks | Feb 13, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
More efficient vehicles would pay a sliding fee to compensate for paying less gas tax under a bill going through the Legislature, which would start adding the penalty to vehicles getting as little as 21 mpg. The bill passed the House floor, 194-143, last Thursday and...
by David Brooks | Feb 13, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
When the Concord Monitor stopped its recycling service a while back, I started collecting plastic/glass/tin in the newsroom and taking it to my town dump. I make a weekly dump run anyway and had room for more recyclables, so it’s no big deal. I also collect my...
by David Brooks | Feb 13, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
American Rivers, which says it’s the only organization that keeps track of all dam removals in the U.S., says 86 dams were removed in the country last year, with at least 18 taken out in Northern New England, including Judd Brook in New Hampshire (a bit west of...
by David Brooks | Feb 12, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
People are fascinated by big trees – New Hampshire, like many states, has a citizen-science-ish program devoted to finding them – and we usually assume that the ares are wicked old as well as wicked big. Not necessarily, as I learned from a study published...
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