by David Brooks | Aug 26, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
The state has taken “offshore wind” out of the title of what is now the Office of Energy Innovation, part of the Trump Party’s irrational tirade against wind turbines, as Canary Media reports. New Hampshire’s GOP-controlled (but just barely)...
by David Brooks | Aug 26, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire legislators have jumped on the cell-phones-are-bad-for-kids bandwagon (which is a legitimate bandwagon, BTW) but they did it in a such a sweeping and vague way that everybody’s confused. Basically the law says that cell phones aren’t allowed...
by David Brooks | Aug 26, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Gather round, dear readers, and let me tell you the story of a nasty invasive insect. No, wait, don’t run away — this is a happy story. And it involves a cute dog named Izzy. Our story concerns the Asian longhorned beetle, a beetle native to east Asia that, no...
by David Brooks | Aug 14, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
EDITOR’S NOTE: There will be no Granite Geek next week. I know that’s a big blow, so as compensation I’m rerunning this piece from 2020 that discusses perhaps my favor NH history story, the Gravity Research Foundation. I am happy to say that the...
by David Brooks | Aug 12, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
For two decades I’ve been writing about the transition that New Hampshire agriculture has gone through, from a few large farms growing a single crop (apples, for example) that is sold en masse to wholsalers, to many small farms that grow a bunch of stuff...
by David Brooks | Aug 12, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
In what I regard as a pleasant surprise, the state legislature (a body of which I am not usually fond) did a clever thing this session by making one of those easy-to-overlook changes that can improve life. “A lot of states are looking at doing this. New...