by David Brooks | Jan 31, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
If you’re the sort of person who gets irritated when people drive slowly on the highway, good thing you weren’t on Route 28 Monday when Eversource’s newest transformer was trundling down the road. “They go 5 or 10 miles an hour,” said Danny Cain, safety risk manager...
by David Brooks | Jan 31, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
South Burlington, Vermont, announced Monday that it was partnering with blockchain startup Propy to store real estate conveyance documents, according to a press release. The pilot’s aim is to see if a blockchain-based platform will reduce the costs of storing all the...
by David Brooks | Jan 30, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
I have been writing newspaper articles about the possible and ongoing effects of climate change on New Hampshire’s forests for so long that the first stories weren’t even put into any digital archive, so I can’t point to them. But the issue is still...
by David Brooks | Jan 30, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Concord has what appears to be the nation’s best-preserved gasholder, the name for a large building that once held flammable gas made from coal, which was commonly used for municipal lighting in the days before natural gas. It has just been added to the National...
by David Brooks | Jan 30, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Considering that New Hampshire is smack dab in the middle of a region sometimes called the Saudi Arabia of biomass – i.e., we have lots of trees to sell – it’s a little weird that our logging and milling industries are struggling. The problem is that many of the...
by David Brooks | Jan 29, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s a legal fight over federal border checks throughout New Hampshire, which led Seacoast Online to wonder how far into the state the “border” is defined. As they report here, the legal definition (100 air miles from any border) covers virtually...
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