by David Brooks | Jun 11, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
This is an edited report from Atlantic Salmon Federation, with my addition in bold: The number of North American wild Atlantic salmon dropped 15 per cent in 2017 compared to the year before, according to the Atlantic Salmon Federation’s annual State of the...
by David Brooks | Jun 8, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Liberty Utilities, one of the three major electric companies in New Hampshire, is asking for regulatory permission to subsidize at least 300 customers to install batteries in their homes as part of a grid-stabilization experiment. I’ve written about the proposal...
by David Brooks | Jun 8, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
If there’s any medical advance that the New Hampshire public would love to see right now, it’s a Lyme vaccine, as bacteria-carrying ticks sweep over the landscape – and not just in New England or just the U.S.. I suspect even anti-vax folks would...
by David Brooks | Jun 8, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire has a ton of historical highway markers, those green signs by the roadside that tell you about such-and-thus that happened somewhere close to here at some point. I think they’re great, especially when they talk about alien abduction or goofy...
by David Brooks | Jun 8, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
It’s annoying that snow melts and then you have to wait for it to fall again – so why not try to keep it from melting in the first place? Even if you have to keep it all summer. That’s being done at some European and Canadian ski areas, struggling...
by David Brooks | Jun 6, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Maine is set to become the first state to try ranked-choice voting on statewide ballots in a primary next week, although as the Portland Press-Herald notes, there’s a twist (there’s always a twist in this story): Maine voters will finally get their chance...