by David Brooks | Dec 18, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Legislative Service Requests (LSRs) are sort of placeholders for bills that are in the process of being written and have yet to be considered by the New Hampshire legislature. More than 1,000 have been filed in our voluminous House and small Senate. Many of them never...
by David Brooks | Dec 18, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Axios Boston reporters (here it is) that Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard are expanding deer hunting season and may even – gasp! – allow hunting on Sunday. the reason: diseases carried by ticks that the deer spread around. Lyme disease cases are 11...
by David Brooks | Dec 17, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Unfortunately, this preliminary report on the state of Mount Washington’s ecosystem contains no surprises: High visitation has taken a toll on the unique and fragile alpine ecosystem atop the Northeast’s highest peak, where erosion, trampling, and invasive...
by David Brooks | Dec 16, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
The newest large-scale solar array in Concord, which got an official groundbreaking Monday, is good news from the cheap-electricity standpoint, but it’s also a lesson in the obstacles slowing our transition to 21st-century energy. The 5-megawatt array — the biggest...
by David Brooks | Dec 15, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
It took us a decade to build another power line to bring Quebec hydropower south into New England, but guess what: It’s currently selling power north (900MW at one point over the weekend) because a long drought in Quebec is clobbering their hydropower. Ironic...
by David Brooks | Dec 9, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire Bulletin has a story about the effect of the summer drought on wells – the news hook concerns a state program to help pay for new wells – that includes a discussion about an important fact: Due to geology, New England’s underground...