by David Brooks | Mar 3, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Maine’s haul of lobsters has declined every year from 2021, when it was nearly 111 million pounds, to 2023, when it was less than 97 million pounds. That decline extended into 2024, when the haul was about 86.1 million pounds, according to data released by state...
by David Brooks | Mar 3, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
A story in the Monitor (you can read it here) talks about a UNH grad-school project to use AI to standardize the difficulty rating for rock-climbing routes. Shaad Mahmud, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at UNH, started working nearly two...
by David Brooks | Feb 27, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
You can’t get tourists to spend money unless they show up and a tourist with an EV is likely to find NH a less-than-welcoming destination since we have relatively few public charging stations by Northeast standards. Clean Energy NH estimates that avoidance by...
by David Brooks | Feb 27, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
From the point of view of New Hampshire ski area owners, this has been a good news/bad news season The weather has been great, with none of the snowpack-killing warm rains that have bedeviled us in recent winters. But then there’s the chairlifts. An aerial lift...
by David Brooks | Feb 27, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
The department that oversees private insurance in New Hampshire has warned companies that it takes more than an aerial photo or two of a house to make decisions about issuing a policy. “The Department has received several complaints in recent months in which...
by David Brooks | Feb 25, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
I don’t know about you but I’ve got more snow in my yard right now than I’ve had for at least three winters. All that snow is kind of a pain I’m when post-holing my way around the field or digging out the mailbox, but mostly it’s delightful, a reminder of the way New...