by David Brooks | Oct 26, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
The race for New Hampshire’s U.S. Senate seat will be decided by a different group of voters than when Sen. Maggie Hassan was first elected, because more than one-quarter of people eligible to cast ballots were either too young or didn’t live here in 2016. That’s the...
by David Brooks | Oct 25, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s a Concord community that calls Halloween “gate night” for reasons that date back a century – it used to be a common appellation because of the popularity of stealing people’s garden gates as the trick part of trick-or-treat. It...
by David Brooks | Oct 25, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
I wrote a profile of a nearby dairy farm that has installed robot milkers: “With a combination of hydraulics, lasers, electronics and suction, the $420,000 setup determines which cow has entered the stall to feed via the RFID chip hanging around her neck, cleans...
by David Brooks | Oct 25, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
The spike is the price of electricity indirectly caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which sent natural gas prices soaring, as well as the rise in the price for the same reason of heating oil, which heats somewhere around half of northern New England homes...
by David Brooks | Oct 24, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Everybody agrees that New Hampshire, like most of the industrialized world, needs more housing. Everybody also agrees that it’s hard to find enough skilled craftspeople to build the housing and that the result is too expensive. A partial solution exists, however:...
by David Brooks | Oct 24, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
With New Hampshire’s hospitals starting to fill with COVID-19 patients, there’s no longer any question that an autumn surge has begun yet again. And if that’s not enough, it looks like flu season will return in force following a two-year lull. “Many of us can’t bear...
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