by David Brooks | Feb 3, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
When it comes to New Hampshire’s future with flying cars – or “roadable aircraft,” to give the preferred term – advocates have their main argument ready. “Somebody’s got to go first. Why not us?” said Rep. Steven Smith, R-Charleston. Smith was...
by David Brooks | Jan 30, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire is one of 12 states that require everybody who is in a conversation consent to audio recording because it can be done. (That’s why reporters as “do you mind if I record this interview?” instead of just turning on the app.) But those...
by David Brooks | Jan 30, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
We all know things are going to change as the climate warps around us. But it’s still startling when a change actually arrives. Like this one: Cross-country skiing in New Hampshire needs snowmaking. This seems very wrong, even to a downhill skier like me. Donning skis...
by David Brooks | Jan 30, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
When the new Solar Orbiter blasts off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in early February, it will carry with it an instrument designed and built by researchers from the University of New Hampshire Space Science Center (SSC) to study the Earth’s closest star, the sun....
by David Brooks | Jan 27, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
As regular readers know, in the past year I have come to think that the recycling programs we grew up with are a figleaf that allows maximum production of stuff which lingers in the environment forever, while shoving all costs of cleanup onto taxpayers and volunteers....
by David Brooks | Jan 27, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire’s enormous legislature generations hundreds of bills, and while most of them go nowhere there can be some interesting ideas that get lost in the shuffle. Here’s one, highlighted by Bob Sanders of NH Business Review: House Bill 1578 would...
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