by David Brooks | Apr 2, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
NOTE: You can see lots of Geoff Forester’s photos at the Monitor version of this article (here). Many good ideas seem obvious once somebody has thought of them. RapidPole is a good example. “It’s kind of surprising that something like this hasn’t been done...
by David Brooks | Apr 2, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
People are continuing to move into New Hampshire, fueling a small population increase that was seen in all 10 of the state’s counties in the 12 months leading up to last July, according to new population estimates from the Census Bureau. “New Hampshire was one of the...
by David Brooks | Mar 30, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
Business boosters are excited about the expansion of biotech firm United Therapeutics in New Hampshire but the corporate hangar it will build at Concord Municipal Airport is exciting for another reason: Glulam. Lots and lots of glulam. “The entire skeleton and truss...
by David Brooks | Mar 29, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire has always been of two minds about our forests: Do we keep or do we cut? Forests shape our economy and we want to use them, but they define our personality as much as anything does and we want to enjoy them. Those two desires have been in conflict for...
by David Brooks | Mar 28, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
Vermont Clean Cities and Granite State Clean Cities, in collaboration with Clean Energy NH and the electric school bus maker BYD, took some Class D electric school buses on tours around the two states recently. In New Hampshire, public demonstration events were held...
by David Brooks | Mar 27, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
Voters at Boscawen town meeting on Saturday overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to end the town’s property tax break for solar panels. (It’s at the bottom of this story by a reporter who sat through *all six hours* of the meeting!) The vote was 99-38....
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