by David Brooks | Feb 6, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Making electricity in New England is going to keep getting cheaper, judging from the results of the latest regional auction for power production three years down the road. The 14th annual Forward Capacity Auction, in which firms predict the cost of...
by David Brooks | Feb 4, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Recently I flew to D.C. to visit my family and had to get up at 4:30 a.m. to make my flight in Manchester because the next flight was way too late. Between yawns, I muttered deprecations about American Airlines all day. Vikrant Vaze, an assistant professor of...
by David Brooks | Feb 4, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
(Update: In response to this piece, a former colleague noted that he has described the Iowa caucuses as “ranked-choice voting presented as performative dance” – which is such a great line that I had to include it here.) Here in New Hampshire we...
by David Brooks | Feb 4, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Maine might be the nation’s leader in alternative voting systems, since it is the first place to hold them for statewide races as we’ve discussed many times (including at Science Cafe N.H. in Concord in January). But that doesn’t mean everybody is...
by David Brooks | Feb 4, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire has its fourth utility scale wind farm: The 29-MW Antrim Wind Farm has finally gone online, reports the Keene Sentinel. Like pretty much anything being built these days, the wind farm was opposed by neighbors and groups who thought it was ugly, or would...
by David Brooks | Feb 3, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Two pieces of New Hampshire transportation usage data came out over the weekend. First, Amtrak’s Downeaster, the passenger trains that run between Boston and Brunswick, Maine, (not Bangor, as I initially said) with several stops in the Seacoast area, is doing...