by David Brooks | Apr 13, 2017 | Newsletter
J.P. Morgan is in the process of lining up bidders for Eversource’s generation assets – power plants and hydropower dams – which the utility must sell off this summer as part of deregulation of the industry. Coal-fired power plants are closing all...
by David Brooks | Apr 6, 2017 | Newsletter
If New Hampshire allows electronic check-in at polling places, replacing ballot clerks drawing lines through voter names in printed books with people touching icons on computer tablet screens, it will be due in part to one unlikely motivation: the alphabet. “There’s...
by David Brooks | Apr 6, 2017 | Newsletter
Harvard-Pilgrim Health Care said it will reduce payments to two pharmaceutical giants if evidence indicates that their drugs aren’t working well, part of a trend to pay for health care based on patients’ outcomes rather than the amount of services used. “We think it’s...
by David Brooks | Apr 5, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
UPDATE: Well, this is embarrassing. I didn’t realize Zhang left UNH last year and is now a professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara, which called him a “celebrity mathematician” in making the announcement. No wonder UNH didn’t...
by David Brooks | Apr 5, 2017 | Newsletter
Literally hundreds of bills are proposed by New Hampshire’s enormous (third-biggest in the English speaking world) legislature each year, and it’s incredibly hard to keep track of all of them as they percolate through hearings in committees and floor votes...
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