by David Brooks | Oct 10, 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 | Oct 9, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
You will be astonished to hear that New Hampshire’s “roadmap to safer roads” talks about enforcement and laws and penalties and says almost nothing about road design (except gosh, we should try to keep people from going the wrong way on divided...
by David Brooks | Oct 8, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
The Monitor’s Catherine McLaughlin has a long piece in today’s paper about a lawsuit that featured fake A.I.-generated citations, “perhaps the first of its kind in New Hampshire”, and what that means. It was a garden-variety lawsuit in the...
by David Brooks | Oct 7, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
A national pro-vaccine group has opened a chapter in New Hampshire, the eleventh state in which it has done so. American Families for Vaccines said the chapter “organization will “work to promote science-based legislation and initiatives in the Granite...
by David Brooks | Oct 7, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
The most unusual college in New England turns 20 this year. If it had been around a half-century ago I might well have attended. The college is the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vt., across the Connecticut River from Lebanon. It offers a two-year...
by David Brooks | Oct 7, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Three proposed bills for the upcoming legislative session in NH concern “artificial intelligence.” There are no details yet about what exactly they propose but FYI, here they are: HB 2026-2507: “creating an exception to the restricted uses of...