by David Brooks | Dec 16, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Now that wild turkeys have become re-established in the Northeast, their population density is enough to spread disease. One called lymphoproliferative virus (LPDV) is showing up, says a UMaine study. They collected tissue samples from 699 Maine turkeys from 2017-20,...
by David Brooks | Dec 14, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
It’s that time of year again, when the state’s 424 legislators show us what sort of laws they hope to pass in the upcoming session. Their proposals come in the form of LSRs, or legislative service requests. At this point there is no actual wording for the...
by David Brooks | Dec 13, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: NH GRANIT, a mapping agency for the state based at the University of New Hampshire, is receiving close to $1 million from the N.H. Department of Business and Economic Affairs (BEA) to inventory and map statewide broadband coverage as well as...
by David Brooks | Dec 13, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
One of these days you’re going to be driving somewhere after a snow squall on slippery streets and you will mutter to yourself, “Doggone it, why don’t they just put down more salt?” Although you might use different words than “doggone it.” Well, I have the answer: The...
by David Brooks | Dec 12, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
As New Hampshire’s hospitals continue to face an onslaught of patients with respiratory problems including COVID – there are no empty beds in any of the state’s pediatric ICU units – a new study shows one weird trick to increase our odds of not becoming one of those...
by David Brooks | Dec 11, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
One of the most interesting things in New Hampshire is Corbin Park, the 25,000-acre private hunting preserve in Sullivan County that is a ticking “feral swine bomb, to use the great phrase from an Atlantic story I mentioned a while back. NHPR’s Outside/In did a...
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