by David Brooks | Jan 14, 2020 | Blog
The state may lose one of its more unusual laws, which says you can’t be “in possession, custody or control of a ferret” while hunting, but even if it does you’re not going to be able to go rabbit-hunting with ferrets any time soon. “I’ve taken a lot of good-natured...
by David Brooks | Jan 14, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Watching free TV over an antenna seems so out-of-date that it’s hard to believe the technology can change any more. But it can, and it is. Specifically, channels 7 and 38 out of Boston will shift frequencies by the end of the week. To keep watching them free over the...
by David Brooks | Jan 13, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
One of the more unusual-sounding bills being considered by the state legislature comes up for a hearing Wednesday. It’s titled “An Act repealing the statute governing weather modification experimentation” and I might be one of the few people who knew...
by David Brooks | Jan 13, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The New Hampshire legislature has tabled – “laid to table” is the phrase they use – efforts to give degree-granting status to Signum University, an online masters-level college with a small physical presence in Nashua. That doesn’t mean...
by David Brooks | Jan 13, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
I cover lots of non-tech/science stuff as part of my job, and one of the things I’ve done for a couple of years is to cover the Concord Chamber of Commerce’s annual Economic Forecast Luncheon in which an analyst from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston...
by David Brooks | Jan 13, 2020 | Blog
New Hampshire has a large (more than 25,000 acres, surrounded by a 12-foot-high fence that’s 26 miles long) private hunting park in Sullivan County that relatively few people know about. If you’ve heard of it, that’s probably because of this NHPR story...
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