by David Brooks | Feb 25, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
They’re building a big new legislative parking garage in downtown Concord. Driving past it today I noticed that, like all parking garages, the walls are full of enormous wide-open windows so that fumes don’t build up and kill our retirement-age lawmakers...
by David Brooks | Feb 24, 2026 | Blog
Citizens Count, an online news source about New Hampshire lawmakers, has a roundup of proposed legislation concerning the esoteric topic of timber grades. (Story is here) I mentioned the bills in passing in a roundup of legislation a couple of months ago but...
by David Brooks | Feb 23, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
Molecules that get consumed at one level of the food chain have a habit of lingering in higher levels of the food chain, for better or worse. When it comes to rodenticides (rat poison), it’s worse. New Hampshire Bulletin has a story about a proposal to ban rat...
by David Brooks | Feb 23, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
We’ve been having some issues getting patents lately, which is why they haven’t appeared every week. 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...
by David Brooks | Feb 20, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire Bulletin’s William Skipworth has an Feb. 20 update on anti-vaccine bills in the NH legislature: The New Hampshire House of Representatives rejected a proposal Thursday to end all vaccine mandates in the state. “New Hampshire has the lowest...
by David Brooks | Feb 18, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
(UPDATE: This story got picked up by Google so a lot of non-local comments are attached, most of which say “Just allow more hunters!” – but the number of people with hunting licenses in NH has gone down for decades. It’s not that big a part of...