by David Brooks | Dec 8, 2016 | Blog
Tonight (Dec. 8) will see the earliest sunset of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, even though the shortest day of the year won’t happen for almost two weeks. Equally confusing, the latest sunrise of the year won’t happen until almost two weeks after...
by David Brooks | Dec 8, 2016 | Newsletter
The massive New Hampshire legislature (third-largest elected body in English-speaking world) is gearing up for its 2017 session, and part of that involves lawymakers filing LSRs (legislative service requests), which are sort of placeholders saying that they plan to...
by David Brooks | Dec 8, 2016 | Newsletter
The USDA’s Forest Service has launched an intriguing data project that estimates – nay, gives an exact answer – to a question few of us have asked: How many trees does my state have, per person? For New Hampshire, the answer is 2,857. I wonder if...
by David Brooks | Dec 8, 2016 | Newsletter
You know how you can spend your whole life never encountering something and then as soon as you learn about it, you immediately stumble across it again? Well, this week in an interview with the president of Eversource (the story is about regulation and financing,...
by David Brooks | Dec 8, 2016 | Newsletter
(This is a story I wrote for the Monitor – you can read the original press release here): The organization that runs New England’s power grid said electricity supplies should be sufficient to meet demand this winter, but just in case it will pay power plants...
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