by David Brooks | Oct 22, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Since June, South Burlington, Vt. has been partnering with Consensus, a Toronto-based tech firm, on a new smartphone application that allows South Burlington to poll its residents on public policy questions. That’s from an article on Seven Days Vermont, one of...
by David Brooks | Oct 22, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
My weather wishfulness is split this time of year. I want it to get cold so skiing will start, but I want it to stay warm so all those green tomatoes in my garden will ripen before frost. This mental quandary led me to wonder how the date of our first frost is being...
by David Brooks | Oct 22, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Concord will soon be joining the ranks of New Hampshire cities with a community do-it-yourself center known as a makerspace. A nonprofit that has long been working on bringing a makerspace to the city has signed a lease on a portion of the former Beede Electric...
by David Brooks | Oct 18, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
This year the little town Chesterfield partnered with Consolidated Communications to bring fiber-to-the-home to the towns. The Keene Sentinel reports that a number of other towns in the region would like to do the same thing (story is here): Officials from several...
by David Brooks | Oct 16, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
This is embarrassing! I just learned that a vital bit of Internet history happened in Nashua in 1994, when I was a reporter at the city’s newspaper who was writing about the online world, yet I’ve never heard of it before. According to a 1994 article in...
by David Brooks | Oct 15, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
This is the time of year that legislators in the New Hampshire state government start the process of submitting bills. First the 400 representatives and 24 state senators draft a Legislative Service Request, which is basically a general idea for a law. It gets whipped...
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