by David Brooks | Mar 18, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
A personal note: This week marked the 40th anniversary of my first staff newspaper byline, which ran in a now-defunct daily in Virginia. I’ve worked as a beat reporter – and for a couple years as a copy editor – in small daily newspapers ever since,...
by David Brooks | Mar 18, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The Virginia Institute for Marine Science has launched a website with a series of “report cards” on sea level rise for 32 dozen U.S. coastal communities. It includes Boston and two Maine cities: Portland and Eastport (which is way up by Canada). Updated by...
by David Brooks | Mar 15, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s been a lot of attention given to ARMI, the Advanced Regenerative Medicine Institute being established in the Manchester Millyard, partly because it’s cool but mostly out of hopes that it will be a tech niche where New Hampshire can dominate. Or...
by David Brooks | Mar 15, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
There was a time, not that long ago, when bald eagles were so rare they could halt the biggest development project in the state by piling some sticks in a tree. And while developers didn’t want to see them, they were a welcome sight for visitors, who would lug their...
by David Brooks | Mar 15, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: Astronauts traveling into deep space risk being bombarded by cosmic rays . As future missions look to travel back to the moon or even to Mars, new research from the University of New Hampshire’s Space Science Center cautions that the exposure to...
by David Brooks | Mar 13, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Old-timers in New Hampshire have been saying they can’t remember snow hitting Town Meeting election day like it has last year and this year. So we checked, looking at National Weather Service data from Concord airport, the official measuring site, and they were...
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