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 28, 2025 | Newsletter
If you’ve been forwarded this newsletter and want to subscribe, add your email at the Granite Geek blog: granitegeek.concordmonitor.com Suggestions or comments? Drop me a line: dbrooks@cmonitor.com I’m on Bluesky and Mastodon (the newsie.social server) these...
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...
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