by David Brooks | Feb 25, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: Planting grass turf in tilled agricultural soil greatly reduced the ability of new growth of the invasive shrub glossy buckthorn to establish itself in a new area by seed, according to researchers with the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment...
by David Brooks | Feb 25, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
EchoRidge, a Concord startup company, wants to do something that might strike a lot of people as a terrible idea: Make it easier for people to hire political lobbyists. Hold your criticism, says Jeff Allan, the company’s CEO and founder. “Lobbying is associated with...
by David Brooks | Feb 24, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
LIDAR mapping found that Mt. Tecumseh in New Hampshire is only 3,995 feet tall, potentially* removing it from the list of 4000-footers/ Or so says this article by the Appalachian Mountain Club. *I added the “potentially” after the comment below noted that...
by David Brooks | Feb 22, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
From NH Aviation Museum: More than a century ago, her dad started Blake’s Creamery in Manchester, a company still going strong today. But growing up in the 1920s, Bernice Blake wasn’t interested in the food business. Instead sshe took flying lessons at...
by David Brooks | Feb 21, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
In recent years, as I’m sure you know, drug overdose deaths have soared in the U.S. and spread to pretty much all segments of society, thanks largely to opioid use (painkillers and heroin). A new study confirms what most suspected: The overdose death rate in our...
by David Brooks | Feb 21, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
(Don’t trust my reporting? You can look at the whole presentation on the ISO-New England web page here.) There’s an “elegant and simpler” way for New England’s power grid to deal with concerns about running out of fuel during a cold snap while meeting...