by David Brooks | Mar 17, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
(This ran in the Monitor on Thursday. Also on Thursday, Buzzfeed News ran a piece (here) saying the Senate vote was sort of a mistake, snuck through under an obscure thing called unanimous consent. So dropping Daylight Saving Time may not be as near as we thought.)...
by David Brooks | Mar 15, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Here’s an idea for Concord as it tries to cut its carbon emissions: Swap individual gas furnaces in buildings for a city-wide heating system fueled by a renewable source. Pull that off and we’d be the envy of the net-zero world! Yes, that’s sarcasm – and...
by David Brooks | Mar 13, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
As a further sign of changes happening to the electric grid, non-traditional power sources – solar and wind generation, energy storage and reduction in demand resources – accounted for 15% of all power production that won the latest futures auction in New England, far...
by David Brooks | Mar 12, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire’s own Mount Washington will be the star of a major motion picture opening later this month but be warned: It’s not any Mount Washington we’re familiar with. “I told my friends who pointed that out: just roll with it!” said Pam Bales, a back-country...
by David Brooks | Mar 10, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
For 20 months I’ve writing a week “COVID tracker” in the Monitor, trying to give a sense of how the pandemic was doing in New Hampshire. It was spurred by confusion over all the numbers we were hearing in the early days and has been surprisingly...
by David Brooks | Mar 10, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
It’s great to hear that a national advocacy group is launching a drive in New Hampshire “aimed at encouraging more individuals from science fields to run for state office” – but it’s depressing that they feel limited to just one political...