by David Brooks | Apr 27, 2017 | Newsletter
This is a list of patents issued to N.H. companies or individuals in the past week or so. It’s can be fun to wander through them and try to guess what the heck they’re talking about – but I’d like to see the autonomous floor-cleaning robot. The...
by David Brooks | Apr 27, 2017 | Newsletter
“Golden-flowered dandelions are a cheerfully disguised menace. With the ability to displace native plants, they represent a new threat to the natural communities on New England’s highest peaks and in alpine zones all over the world. It was generally assumed the...
by David Brooks | Apr 27, 2017 | Newsletter
Few things are more irritating to a reporter than getting scooped on home turf by an out-of-state reporter. So I blew my top when I read this piece in Forbes.com about a lawsuit that went to the N.H Supreme Court concerning an insurance claim about a pizza dropped on...
by David Brooks | Apr 26, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
When I first started reporting, energy was a boring subject, dominated by ponderous utilities and stagnant technology – even the nuclear-power debate was largely settled (sorry, Clamshell Alliance). Then deregulation came along, and solar power, and climate...
by David Brooks | Apr 25, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
In 1993, which is a zillion years ago in technology time, a group of planners and designers in the city of Keene won a national award for their ideas of what local infrastructure was needed to get ready for electric vehicles. A quarter century later, they’re...
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