by David Brooks | Feb 14, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire has been trying for years to make people get rid of old wood stoves that contribute a disproportionate amount to air pollution, but a bill that would have forced the issue, requiring pre-1986 stoves to be destroyed when the house is sold, seems to have...
by David Brooks | Feb 14, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
A proposal to let New Hampshire adopt ranked-choice voting for the next presidential primary has been shelved for the time being. The Election Law Committee of the state House of Representatives unanimously retained the bill, HB 782, on Wednesday. This means it can be...
by David Brooks | Feb 12, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
We’ve given up trying to bring the Atlantic salmon back to New Hampshire – decades-long programs on the Connecticut and Merrimack rivers were abandoned a few years ago because they weren’t accomplishing diddly-squat – but they’re still...
by David Brooks | Feb 12, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The first-ever inventory of community-owned forests in New Hampshire that was released last week included an interesting number: $146 million. This was the “economic value” researchers put on the 180,439 acres divided up among 1,691 parcels, each 10 acres or larger,...
by David Brooks | Feb 12, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
If you want to be terrified about living in your own house, may I suggest you attend a legislative hearing about right-to-repair laws. If the hearing goes as one did in Concord last week, you will learn from industry representatives that you can be killed or maimed by...
by David Brooks | Feb 8, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Until sent me a press release about a company incentive used by two ice rinks in the N.H. Seacoast to install REALice systems (that goofy capitalization is the trade name) to save money: Ice rinks traditionally use extremely hot water to resurface the ice to remove...
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