by David Brooks | Aug 16, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
It might feel like it sometimes, but when it comes to COVID-19 we are not actually back to Square One. Square Two, maybe, but not Square One. That’s about as optimistic as I can get. The depressing deja vu comes because new cases of COVID-19 are rising fast in New...
by David Brooks | Aug 13, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
The Valley News has a good story on the problem that so-called compostable items like bags, plates and utensils are posing for landfills – especially in Vermont, which has a strict no-food-waste-in-landfill law. Basically, too many “compostable”...
by David Brooks | Aug 12, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Aug. 8 to Aug. 15. *** Allegro MicroSystems Assigned Patent for Gate Driver Isolating Circuit Allegro MicroSystems, Manchester, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No....
by David Brooks | Aug 12, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
As I write this on Thursday morning, the Census Bureau is preparing a press conference about local data from the Census that will be used for drawing political boundaries. This has always been a political process with parties pushing to gain election advantages, but...
by David Brooks | Aug 12, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
I’ve played recreational chess all my life, although not well. I was a bench-warmer on my high school chess team and played in a couple US Chess Federation tournaments through college. I ended up with a lower USCF rating than when I began, which is hard to do...
by David Brooks | Aug 12, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
When it comes to hydropower, we’re pulled in two ways at once. We want more of this renewable electricity but we also want our rivers to be as natural as possible. Good luck doing both. “Dams are loved by some and hated by others,” is how Shannon Ames puts it. Ames...