by David Brooks | Feb 11, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
A company called Rotor is working to develop an autonomous helicopter, or at least a remotely-controlled one, in buildings at the former Daniel Webster College in Nashua. As I noted in a 2024 article (here), they’re an MIT spinoff and Nashua was the closest...
by David Brooks | Feb 11, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire has so many hiking trails that if stretched out, they’d reach California and partway back, but one small section is drawing attention right now — a reminder that these “natural” paths that make life in the Granite State so delightful require a ridiculous...
by David Brooks | Feb 9, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
early January, representatives from Mount Washington Observatory (MWOBS), Vaisala, and the Omni Mount Washington Resort collaborated to install New Hampshire’s first ground-based scanning LiDAR. The Vaisala WindCube 200S Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR), located...
by David Brooks | Feb 8, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
Time to rerun this piece from 2016: I have a fairly long driveway next to an open field, and at least once every winter, snow drifts across it to the point where things get dicey without all-wheel drive. For two decades, I have talked about setting up a snow fence to...
by David Brooks | Feb 6, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
This is a cut-and-paste, with permission, from a LinkedIn post by Joseph LaRusso at the Acadia Center, responding to an ISO-NE statement about the way New England’s electricity has been generated by burning an awful lot of fuel oil during this long cold spell...
by David Brooks | Feb 5, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
Balancing the health of a community with the rights of individuals — a long-simmering issue that grew heated during the COVID pandemic and hasn’t cooled since — took center stage Wednesday in a hearing about a bill that would end vaccine mandates in New Hampshire...