by David Brooks | Jul 10, 2017 | Blog
By UNH News Service: DURHAM – Researchers with the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of New Hampshire have succeeded in quadrupling the length of the Granite State’s strawberry growing season as part of a multi-year research project...
by David Brooks | Jul 6, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
I commute past a really odd-looking house in the town of Hopkinton. In summertime news can get slow, making it hard to fill the paper at times. So let’s find out about the house! That’s what I did: The story is in the Monitor, and you can read it right...
by David Brooks | Jul 6, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
(This story appeared in the July 6 Monitor. As of this writing, all the comments posted at the end of it are thoughtful, well-written and in complete paragraph form. Go figure.) This week’s decision by the New Hampshire Union Leader to end readers’ ability to post...
by David Brooks | Jul 4, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
This column is for geeks, who like innovative ideas that upend stodgy old industries, so to celebrate Fourth of July wanted to come up with an idea that will upend something traditionally American. Since mom and apple pie are fine as they are, I decided to upend...
by David Brooks | Jul 4, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Dave Solomon of the Union-Leader wrote about the fact that negative pricing for electricity is starting to be seen in New Hampshire during low power-usage times, part of a trend caused in part by renewables (especially solar and wind): A 2014 change in the energy...
by David Brooks | Jun 28, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Blockchain, the technology behind bitcoin and other crypto-currencies, holds at least as much promise as bitcoin does for changing business and finance (although actually taking advantage of that promise is proving trickier than expected). The state of Vermont has...
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