by David Brooks | Apr 2, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Blimps are much cooler than drones, don’t you think? Of course you do. So let’s celebrate the fact that an MIT-connected startup called Altaeros Energies is building a blimp hangar in Fremont, N.H. – halfway between Manchester and the Seacoast...
by David Brooks | Apr 2, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: White pine needle damage, a complex of foliar diseases that is being accelerated by the region’s warmer, wetter springs, is slowing the growth and hampering the health of the region’s eastern white pines, according to new research from the...
by David Brooks | Mar 27, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
As if New Hampshire sugar maple forests didn’t have enough to worry about – like voracious new bugs, climate change, invasive plants – long-running research has found another one: North Country soils make it very hard for them to rebound after a clear-cut. “This...
by David Brooks | Mar 26, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Patients at Concord Hospital who weren’t paying attention during their most recent office visit might think that they had lost an awful lot of weight. The hospital and its affiliated private practices have been using a new electronic medical record system that, among...
by David Brooks | Mar 26, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The New Hampshire House has approved a plan to charge a sliding fee to vehicles based on their efficiency, starting with those that get as little as 21 mpg, to compensate for paying less gasoline tax. The bill passed Thursday, 168-152, on a roll call vote. It would...
by David Brooks | Mar 26, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
A few weeks ago I put a query in the Concord Monitor asking if anybody in the area still used a rotary phone. I expected few, if any, responses, because I had gotten nothing from various online attempts. Instead I was overwhelmed – in a few days more than 60...
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