by David Brooks | Jul 6, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
I commute past a really odd-looking house in the town of Hopkinton. In summertime news can get slow, making it hard to fill the paper at times. So let’s find out about the house! That’s what I did: The story is in the Monitor, and you can read it right...
by David Brooks | Jul 6, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
(This story appeared in the July 6 Monitor. As of this writing, all the comments posted at the end of it are thoughtful, well-written and in complete paragraph form. Go figure.) This week’s decision by the New Hampshire Union Leader to end readers’ ability to post...
by David Brooks | Jul 4, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
This column is for geeks, who like innovative ideas that upend stodgy old industries, so to celebrate Fourth of July wanted to come up with an idea that will upend something traditionally American. Since mom and apple pie are fine as they are, I decided to upend...
by David Brooks | Jul 4, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Dave Solomon of the Union-Leader wrote about the fact that negative pricing for electricity is starting to be seen in New Hampshire during low power-usage times, part of a trend caused in part by renewables (especially solar and wind): A 2014 change in the energy...
by David Brooks | Jul 4, 2017 | Newsletter
Maine is the soft-shell clam capital of the country. But clammers harvested less than 1.5 million pounds last year, the lowest total in a quarter century – down from nearly 8 million pounds at the industry’s height in the late 1970s. So reports the Portland...
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