by David Brooks | Jul 8, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
(UPDATE: Vice notes that “a fact sheet for the order indicates that the executive order will apply not just to tractor companies like John Deere, but also to consumer electronics companies.”) New Hampshire’s right-to-repair community is looking with...
by David Brooks | Jul 7, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
VTDigger, a statewide independent news source in Vermont, has an intriguing story about a shortage of storm-watchers hampering the National Weather Service in Burlington. It’s a combination of stay-at-home (fewer people driving to work and seeing stuff),...
by David Brooks | Jul 7, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Next time you get a call from a 603 number you don’t recognize, pay attention to your phone – there is a chance it will be able to tell whether or not the call is actually coming from New Hampshire. That’s the hopeful start to a story in the Concord Monitor...
by David Brooks | Jul 6, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
We Baby Boomers fixate on road signs but it’s not our fault. All our driving habits were developed before cell phones and satellite maps and digital voices warning that your exit is coming up in a quarter mile. We braved the interstate highways when the only...
by David Brooks | Jul 6, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
I have flown on Delta Airlines, visited the Mississippi Delta and written my share of deltas in math class, but the only delta I care about these days is molecular. I refer, of course, to the COVID-19 virus formerly known as B.1.617.2 or the “India variant,” now...
by David Brooks | Jul 3, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
It’s a truism in newsrooms that few readers notice story bylines, but Monitor regulars who do check names at the start of articles have seen something odd in recent months. Along with the usual “Monitor staff” attached to people like me, there have been bylines from...
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