by David Brooks | Jan 8, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
If you were a little surprised that 2018’s first baby born in one of the whitest states in the nation – Gifty Nnamerenwa, who arrived in Nashua about 90 minutes after midnight on Monday – wasn’t white, and neither was the first 2018 baby born in Concord, perhaps it’s...
by David Brooks | Jan 8, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Wildlife biologists need help from citizen science volunteers to conduct surveys for Eastern cottontail rabbits in southern New Hampshire. On February 3, 2018, from 9:00 a.m. to noon in Hollis, UNH Cooperative Extension and New Hampshire Fish and Game will train...
by David Brooks | Jan 4, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Photovoltaic electricity is growing fast in New Hampshire, according to data from the US Energy Information Administration: We went from an estimated annual production of 45,000 megawatt-hours during the first three quarters of 2016 to 78,000 Mwh in the same period of...
by David Brooks | Jan 4, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
I decided I don’t get enough email from readers calling me an idiot, so I wrote this for today’s Concord Monitor: The holidays are over and the weather has been weird, which makes people grumpy. So let’s be grumpy, too. Specifically, let’s be grumpy about...
by David Brooks | Jan 3, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
You’re reading this column so you probably know this, but I didn’t until I wrote this story, prodded by the cold snap and people running out of heating oil (which heats about half the residences in New Hampshire): Homeowners who run out of heating oil and...
by David Brooks | Jan 3, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
This is an email I received after my UFOs-aren’t-aliens column. It makes me happy: It is so true when you call yourself a geek. the word geek has always meant, and still means, someone who knows very little about anything! Unlike you, I have a brain. I...