by David Brooks | Jun 26, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
The Washington Post has a section called Department of Data that takes a look at various questions through – well, data. Today they tackled the issue of landline phones, including the question of why landlines are more common in the Northeast. (I also pondered...
by David Brooks | Jun 25, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
The Union-Leader has a good look at questions around three small dams on six miles of the Piscataquog River which may lose their license to exist due to questions about hydropower and fish passage. Fixing a dam is expensive! The full story is here.
by David Brooks | Jun 23, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
Joe LaRusso, the manager of the Clean Grid Initiative at Acadia Center, pointed out what he called the most interesting fact presented as the recent FERC New England Gas-Electric Forum: “Every 700 MW of solar offsets 7-10 million gals. of fuel oil or 1-1.5...
by David Brooks | Jun 21, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
Two years ago Maine tightened its rules for vaccination of kids entering kindergarten of child care, removing exceptions based on religious or philosophical grounds that had previously been allowed. Kids can enter public kindergarten now without a full of vaccines...
by David Brooks | Jun 20, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
From 2017 to 2021, New Hampshire’s gender ratio changed in what strikes as a surprising way: We gained a lot more males than females. As the chart above shows, in 2017 women outnumbered men in New Hampshire by more than 13,000, yet by 2000 women only outnumbered...
by David Brooks | Jun 20, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire Jeep dealers are about to be in an interesting position because of the announcement by parent company Stellantis that they’re not going to be sending gas-powered vehicles to states that have signed onto the California Air Resources Board emissions...