by David Brooks | Sep 14, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
A scary number showed up Sunday on my tracking of the state’s COVID-19 status: 34. It was scary because that was the two-week average of new cases and it was higher than the peak we saw during the mid-summer increase. We haven’t had an average that high since...
by David Brooks | Sep 10, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Sept. 6 to Sept. 13. *** Hypertherm Assigned Patent for Disabling Plasma Arc Torches Hypertherm, Hanover, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 10,772,183, initially filed Jan....
by David Brooks | Sep 10, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire has generally been a laggard in the energy revolution – our solar and wind power are feeble at best, electric vehicle chargers aren’t coming, etc. – and large-scale energy storage is no exception. There have been two proposals to build...
by David Brooks | Sep 8, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
When it comes to COVID-19 in New Hampshire, for most of the summer we have been split into two groups: Nursing homes and everybody else. Right now, however, that split is better described as schools and everybody else. The switch comes about partly because the...
by David Brooks | Sep 8, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Replacing a crossing that carries a dirt road over an unnamed brook deep in the woods is no big deal, unless the crossing was originally built by the Shakers. Then it’s practically a work of art. “We thought of doing a concrete culvert. That would be the easy thing,...
by David Brooks | Sep 8, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
That wasn’t a politics joke: I mean the bird. “The good news is we set a new record for territorial pairs of loons,” said Harry Vogel, senior biologist and executive director of the Moultonborough, N.H.-based Loon Preservation Committee. “We now have more than...
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