by David Brooks | Jul 16, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
I haven’t seen Comet Neowise yet because the clouds have always been in the wrong place (I don’t have great horizon views from my home due to trees). So let’s enjoy this photo from July 15 showing it next to Mount Madison in the Presidential Range,...
by David Brooks | Jul 16, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
It used to be common – or at least not rare – for communities to uproot entire buildings and move them blocks or even miles away. For example, my town’s Town Hall was once the Congregational Church across the street. When the congregation decided to...
by David Brooks | Jul 13, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The basic story of demographics in the United States over the past couple of decades is that non-Hispanic whites have had smaller and smaller families, which means that the proportion of people who are some other ethnic or racial group keeps growing. Ken Johnson, a...
by David Brooks | Jul 13, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
I update charts daily for New Hampshire on new cases w/ 14-day average; on hospitalizations w/ 14-day average; and total deaths w/ 14-day total. I haven’t been charting testing numbers, but maybe I should. Note that on Wednesday the state added 74...
by David Brooks | Jul 13, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Because many of us in stay-at-home mode are failing to cope with the hairs that grow on various parts of our head (also because I’m sick of bad news) I thought I’d rerun this light-hearted column from October 2017. If you’d like to see an intriguing...
by David Brooks | Jul 11, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
With some pushing to remove Franklin Pierce’s name from two colleges because of his support of slavery, you have to wonder about the future of a much bigger object: Mount Pierce. Right now there doesn’t seem to be any agitation to rename that 4,300-foot peak in the...
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