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...
by David Brooks | Feb 8, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
A solar-and-battery mix from the national company Sunrun was included in the recent forward capacity auction held by ISO-NE, marking the first time it has been included along with power plants and demand response in figuring out whether we’re safe from brownouts...
by David Brooks | Feb 7, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Coyotes are the only major fur-bearing animal that has no hunting limits in New Hampshire: You can shoot them any time of the year (although only during daytime, unless you have written landowner permission – night hunting is generally illegal in NH)....
by David Brooks | Feb 7, 2019 | Blog
Massachusetts students who took state exams online in 2015 scored significantly worse than their peers who took the same exams on paper, especially in English/language arts, although the effect faded after a couple years of testing. That’s from an article in...
by David Brooks | Feb 6, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Americans like to tell ourselves that at heart we’re rugged individualist farmers and cowboys people living close to the land, modern descendants of Daniel Boone and Hiawatha and Laura Ingalls Wilder. But the reality is that we can’t wait to move away from...
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