by David Brooks | Dec 29, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
The biggest national news in 2025 often involved energy — how to make it, who gets to use it, who is going to need it. New Hampshire has sidestepped most of those questions so far but still saw plenty of energy news. Goodbye, coal The closing of the Merrimack Station...
by David Brooks | Dec 29, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
There has been a hiccup in patent collection tech; we missed some pre-Christmas. Sorry! Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New...
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...