by David Brooks | Feb 8, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
It would be good for the planet but bad for New England’s grid if we shut down Merrimack Station, the 465-megawatt coal-fired power plant in Bow, N.H. We’re losing so many baseload power plants – coal-fired and nuclear – that it’s getting...
by David Brooks | Feb 8, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire has eight engineers with the Department of Transportation who inspect our 3,846 bridges, each of them at least once every two years. How do they decide which ones to fix? Good question – which is why I looked into it in my column this week. You can...
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...
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