by David Brooks | Feb 15, 2019 | Blog
(This is a press release from US Geological survey about an ice dam on the small but lovely Piscataquog River. I commute past this ice dam every day – it really is something. And no, I don’t know why USGS spells it “gauge” with a U as one word...
by David Brooks | Feb 14, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
As parts of the U.S. and many countries around the world deal with measles outbreaks in communities that are shunning vaccines, New Hampshire continues to be free of the disease, a reflection of the state’s high rate of school immunization. New Hampshire hasn’t seen a...
by David Brooks | Feb 14, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire has been trying for years to make people get rid of old wood stoves that contribute a disproportionate amount to air pollution, but a bill that would have forced the issue, requiring pre-1986 stoves to be destroyed when the house is sold, seems to have...
by David Brooks | Feb 14, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
A proposal to let New Hampshire adopt ranked-choice voting for the next presidential primary has been shelved for the time being. The Election Law Committee of the state House of Representatives unanimously retained the bill, HB 782, on Wednesday. This means it can be...
by David Brooks | Feb 12, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
We’ve given up trying to bring the Atlantic salmon back to New Hampshire – decades-long programs on the Connecticut and Merrimack rivers were abandoned a few years ago because they weren’t accomplishing diddly-squat – but they’re still...
by David Brooks | Feb 12, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The first-ever inventory of community-owned forests in New Hampshire that was released last week included an interesting number: $146 million. This was the “economic value” researchers put on the 180,439 acres divided up among 1,691 parcels, each 10 acres or larger,...