by David Brooks | Jan 14, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
For years, New Hampshire’s population growth has depended on people moving here. But recently they’re doing less of it in a U-Haul, which may reflect a change in who is arriving. Every year the move-yourself company ranks all states based on how many one-way U-Haul...
by David Brooks | Jan 14, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
In the sort-of-official sign that real winter has arrived in New Hampshire, “ice-in” has been declared on Lake Winnipesaukee. The Jan. 13 declaration was the earliest this event has happened since 2018 and follows two warm winters that almost didn’t have ice-in...
by David Brooks | Jan 14, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
I wrote this two weeks ago but forgot to post it in the blog, so if it sounds like old news, it kind of is. The lingering effects of COVID-19 have driven an estimated 4,000 people out of New Hampshire’s workforce and led around 5,300 more to reduce their hours,...
by David Brooks | Jan 10, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire has received a $15 million federal grant to build more public charging locations of electric vehicles. The money is earmarked to build 199 charging ports – the EV equivalent of a pump at a gas station – in “both urban and rural areas.” That would...
by David Brooks | Jan 7, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Beta Technologies of Burlington, Vermont, is trying to develop an electric-aviation ecosystem with both small planes and, importantly, charging infrastructure. It installed a charging station at Manchester airport last year (article here) and now says it has them at...
by David Brooks | Jan 7, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
What is a living forest worth in money? That’s a simple-sounding question which has flummoxed New Hampshire for a long time. We know what forests are worth when they are no longer alive, after they’re cut down and sold, but putting a dollar figure on keeping them...
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