by David Brooks | Jun 29, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
If you have a garden of any size you’re familiar with the concept of a “microclimate,” mostly because it’s an excellent scapegoat. The sugar snaps did lousy? Garden’s in a low spot where cold collects. Lettuce wilted? Storm blew down a nearby tree and now it’s too...
by David Brooks | Jun 28, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Spurred by a 2018 change in state law and new private investment, the state’s biggest phone company is building fiber-optic connections to tens of thousands of homes in southern New Hampshire, the most extensive expansion of fast internet that rural New Hampshire has...
by David Brooks | Jun 28, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
There aren’t many things more complicated than determining a “healthy diet.” A new website, launched by Vermont Law School helps those of us with the patience to read the confusing food labels. The Valley News has a story (here); Beyranevand said...
by David Brooks | Jun 27, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Mark Hayward of the Union-Leader takes a look at the SEC case against Manchester’s LBRY video hosting service that also issues a cryptocurrency. In case you missed by earlier stories, like this one in March, it’s a good catch-up. His story is here; nothing...
by David Brooks | Jun 27, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Going through old stuff in boxes, I found a copy of an article I wrote in 1993 that starts like this: “It’s a scene straight from a Cold War spy novel: several Russians huddled around a computer in an unmarked apartment, receiving information from...
by David Brooks | Jun 25, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
I will go down in history as the person who asked the last question on AskSam, the NH Public Radio series in which reporter/podcaster Sam Evans-Brown answers listener questions. Sam is leaving radio to become a clean-energy advocate. My question was: Why do all wind...