by David Brooks | Aug 1, 2016 | Blog
I am not a vegetarian but I sympathize with them – my red meat consumption has fallen to almost nothing through culinary inertia and the fact that Indian vegetarian meals are awesome – so it has been interesting to watch a vegetarian colleague do a series...
by David Brooks | Aug 1, 2016 | Blog
The best part of being a reporter is that when you see something interesting, you have an excuse to poke your nose into it. So when I wondered about this weird bright-green cupola sitting on top of one of the downtown office buildings in Concord, I got to find out...
by David Brooks | Jul 31, 2016 | Blog
The Wilton, N.H., police are darned if they’re going to stoop to using brand names in their police log, as reported in this week’s Milford Cabinet: July 8: Police responded to Pleasant Street for a report of someone riding up and down the street, stopping...
by David Brooks | Jul 30, 2016 | Blog
Mountain lions have not returned to New Hampshire on their slow movement east (despite what some folks think), but maybe we should help them come back. Why? To get rid of some of these $%^#!! deer. Our coupled deer population models and socioeconomic valuations...
by David Brooks | Jul 29, 2016 | Blog
The moose is New Hampshire’s iconic mammal, but in some ways that mid-sized member of the weasel family known as the fisher (not fisher cat – it’s not a cat; although it doesn’t fish either so the name makes no sense) is just as iconic....
by David Brooks | Jul 28, 2016 | Blog
I’m preparing some future columns, including one on the surprisingly interesting question of the length of New Hampshire’s coastline, so I was delighted to spot, via BoingBoing, a sort-of-related analysis about which countries in the world are the most and...
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