by David Brooks | Feb 13, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
When the Concord Monitor stopped its recycling service a while back, I started collecting plastic/glass/tin in the newsroom and taking it to my town dump. I make a weekly dump run anyway and had room for more recyclables, so it’s no big deal. I also collect my...
by David Brooks | Feb 13, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
American Rivers, which says it’s the only organization that keeps track of all dam removals in the U.S., says 86 dams were removed in the country last year, with at least 18 taken out in Northern New England, including Judd Brook in New Hampshire (a bit west of...
by David Brooks | Feb 12, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
People are fascinated by big trees – New Hampshire, like many states, has a citizen-science-ish program devoted to finding them – and we usually assume that the ares are wicked old as well as wicked big. Not necessarily, as I learned from a study published...
by David Brooks | Feb 12, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
A digital tool that uses patients’ medical histories to help predict whether they are susceptible to opioid overdoses has been approved for use in New Hampshire, joining long-established surveys that try to predict whether patients will become addicted to the...
by David Brooks | Feb 9, 2018 | Blog
Last week Slate magazine ran an article saying that it was pretty safe to drink from streams in the back country, despite warnings that you can never be sure it doesn’t contain nasty bug-churning bacteria from animal poop. That would be cool, because using...
by David Brooks | Feb 7, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The New Hampshire Consumer Advocate, Don Kreis, writes an occasional column for the online news organization InDepthNH. His latest looks at the surprisingly quick rejection of Northern Pass by a state organization called the Site Evaluation Committee, which has to...
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