by David Brooks | Dec 10, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The exterior of a tree isn’t always a good reflection of its internal condition – think of it as “can’t judge a book by its cover” applied to books’ raw material. In Connecticut, as NPR reports (read/listen to the story here)...
by David Brooks | Dec 10, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The UNH School of Law in Concord is about to take its first big steps into the world of online education, and if all goes as planned it will go further and create what it calls the nation’s first specialized law degree. The school is awaiting permission from the...
by David Brooks | Dec 7, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The MIT-connected startup Altaeros Energies has built a blimp hangar in Fremont, N.H. – halfway between Manchester and the Seacoast – to do R&D on their plan to use blimps as cheap cell towers in rural areas. The Union-Leader reports that they had their first test...
by David Brooks | Dec 6, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The state’s demographics guru, Ken Johnson of the UNH Carsey School of Public Policy, regularly crunches census data to give big-picture looks at our population. A report out today is good news for this aged state: More young adults are moving here from other...
by David Brooks | Dec 6, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The early arrival of cold weather has brought up hopes of outdoor ice skating before Christmas – always an iffy possibility, since it requires both enough cold weather and not so much snow that ponds are unskateable. I’m going to the Everett Arena in...
by David Brooks | Dec 5, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The man who lost the first ever election in the US to used ranked-choice voting to decide a statewide race is suing, with an eye toward getting the national Supreme Court to say that this type of voting is unconstitutional, reports the Portland Press-Herald. Poliquin...
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