by David Brooks | Feb 19, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Do you want to hear me talk about my column this week, which concerns new research correlating road salt usage with toxic metals moving out of the soil into our water, with a side order of “hooray for citizen science”? Sure you do! Well, you have a choice!...
by David Brooks | Feb 18, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Every three years international national (see comment) bodies update suggested building codes to incorporate new technologies, new techniques and processes. States then have the option of adopting those codes, which would have to be followed by towns and cities. New...
by David Brooks | Feb 18, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Another day, another scam over the phone that pretends to come from a legitimate company – but this one is particularly bad because it’s not just trying to steal money, but to get access into your house. That’s the word from the Sanbornton Police Department. They...
by David Brooks | Feb 18, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Any salesman knows that jokes have to be pitched to the audience, which explains why James Rundlett was confident Friday in the Legislative Office Building using a comment that would have bombed almost anywhere else. “It’s not like it’s a DOS memory card,” said...
by David Brooks | Feb 15, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
(This is a press release from US Geological survey about an ice dam on the small but lovely Piscataquog River. I commute past this ice dam every day – it really is something. And no, I don’t know why USGS spells it “gauge” with a U as one word...
by David Brooks | Feb 14, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
As parts of the U.S. and many countries around the world deal with measles outbreaks in communities that are shunning vaccines, New Hampshire continues to be free of the disease, a reflection of the state’s high rate of school immunization. New Hampshire hasn’t seen a...
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