by David Brooks | Dec 5, 2016 | Blog
Despite all the recent rain, Concord and many other New Hampshire communities are still asking people to conserve water, and two-thirds of the state is still listed as suffering from “severe drought,” although that’s a bit of an improvement from the “extreme drought”...
by David Brooks | Dec 4, 2016 | Blog
The November Science Cafe Concord discussed 3-D printing and had the subtitle “Has it lived up to its promise?” The panelists, from printer-manufacturer SolidScape in Merrimack, Technology Education Concepts in Concord and Manchester Makerspace, made a...
by David Brooks | Dec 2, 2016 | Blog
UPDATE: Online petitions may be pointless, but competing ones have been created at Change.org over this issue – this one supports the hotel; and this one opposes it. The owner of the Cog Railway has an idea: Build a 35-room hotel alongside – maybe even...
by David Brooks | Dec 1, 2016 | Newsletter
How much will climate change cost New Hampshire’s Seacoast? To start with – $310,000. That’s the extra amount being paid in Rye to replace a culvert that is 4×5 feet in size with one that is 20×6 feet. The bigger opening is designed to cope with extra water...
by David Brooks | Dec 1, 2016 | Newsletter
There seems to be an easy solution to a rash of people doubting the validity of election returns in New Hampshire: Always audit the results. That’s the argument of some academics who say that regularly recounting certain races in most or all voting precincts, without...
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