by David Brooks | May 30, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
An editor here recently pointed to what he jokingly called “the first Granite Geek item” on the framed front page of the very first Concord Daily Monitor, printed May 23, 1864. (The lead headline: “Death of Nathan Hawthorn.”) An article does...
by David Brooks | May 29, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: Over the last 20 years, Maine’s forests have become younger and less dense. As a result, forests are not providing the most climate benefits that they could through carbon sequestration and storage. However, more carbon could be stored over the...
by David Brooks | May 25, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
What’s the point of a wilderness area if nobody can get to it? What’s the point of a wilderness area if too many people can get to it? That’s roughly the argument which has been raging around the Thoreau Falls Bridge in the Pemigewasett Wilderness...
by David Brooks | May 24, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Offshore wind makes sense along the Eastern seaboard because our continental shelf is pretty flat, so waters are shallow-ish and easy to build in (the continental shelf along the Pacific coast, by contrast, falls off sharply) – plus, it’s close to lots of...
by David Brooks | May 24, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
When more than 300 health care providers showed up in Concord on Wednesday for a conference about antibiotic resistance, they encountered something unexpected: a pop quiz. Standing at the front podium, Dr. Benjamin Chan, the state epidemiologist, described a classic...
by David Brooks | May 22, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
If you drive past Concord Municipal Airport one afternoon and see somebody walking next to the runway quickly – but not too quickly – while waving a butterfly net, you probably think you know what they’re doing: Keeping tabs on the Karner blue. Good guess, but you...