by David Brooks | Feb 8, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
The father-son team of mathematician/artists Erik Demaine (famous for his mathematical origami) and Martin Demaine will give a talk and hands-on presentation at the Museum of the White Mountains at Plymouth State University from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 16, in...
by David Brooks | Feb 8, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
The New Hampshire House of Representatives has supported a bill that says New Hampshire will shift to the Atlantic Time Zone, dumping daylight savings, if Massachusetts does it first. Here is the Union-Leader story. I reported on this bill a couple of weeks ago and...
by David Brooks | Feb 8, 2017 | Blog
Great story in the Monitor today from Nick Reid, who takes a pretty routine zoning case about solar panels next to a church and reflects the whole debate over neighborhood character, renewable energy and how we make choices. Just go ahead and read it...
by David Brooks | Feb 2, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
The geekiest bill before the New Hampshire legislature this year has to be HB320, which would take the process of redistricting (redrawing boundaries for legislators and senators) away from humans and give it to optimization software in an attempt to avoid the...
by David Brooks | Feb 2, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
There are technical reasons many shooters like the P320 from Sig Sauer in Newington, which won an Army contract that could be worth half a billion dollars. It doesn’t have an external hammer like the P229R and the Beretta M9, the handgun that it replaces for the Army,...
by David Brooks | Jan 30, 2017 | Blog
By Lori Wright, UNH: The White Mountain National Forest is home to nearly 140 species of native bees, including two species of native bumble bees that are in decline in the Northeast, according to researchers with the NH Agricultural Experiment Station who recently...
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