by David Brooks | Oct 7, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
The state has taken the unusual step of closing a popular spot to waterfowl hunting after shotgun shell fragments were found in a school yard, apparently because improvements in weapons and ammunition allowed them to travel farther than expected. “It’s just designed...
by David Brooks | Oct 5, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Being on roads is getting a lot more deadly in New Hampshire. The number of people killed in traffic crashes in the state has risen 29% this year compared to the same period last year, according to State Police. Fatalities through Sept. 6 increased among drivers and...
by David Brooks | Oct 5, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
In response to the host of headwinds facing small liberal-arts colleges, Colby-Sawyer College in New London has decided to shake up one of the industry’s long-standing trends: Ever-growing tuition partly offset by ever-growing financial aid. “Higher education has to...
by David Brooks | Oct 4, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
When it comes to the climate emergency, heat-trapping gases like CO2 and methane are the cause but not the problem. The problem is the buildup of heat that is changing global weather at an alarming rate. So maybe we should be trying to reduce the heat as well as the...
by David Brooks | Oct 4, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
(This ran in 2018 and I’m rerunning it now because it’s easy – I mean, because it’s relevant.) New Hampshire is approaching our every-other-year election for state and federal offices, so political signs are littering the landscape. This always...
by David Brooks | Oct 4, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
From phys.org: A study recently published in the Journal Nature Communications, finds that elevated carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have increased wood volume—or the biomass—of forests in the United States. Although other factors like climate and pests can...
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