by David Brooks | Sep 22, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
UPDATE THE NEXT DAY: make that “probably used” – Maine’s high court to reconsider ruling allowing ranked-choice voting in presidential race (story here). “Ranked-choice voting will be used in the presidential election in Maine this fall after...
by David Brooks | Sep 22, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Anybody who has raised pigs or visited a pig farm knows that while this animal is smart and cute, they can be destructive and mean and dangerous as all get-out. Wild pigs are even more so, which is why their continued spread in the U.S. and Canada is one of the more...
by David Brooks | Sep 22, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
My first job in high school was at a fast-food joint that made fried chicken. As low man on the totem pole I had to clean out the grease trap, a container under the floor where used fats and oils collected during the course of the day. Almost five decades later, the...
by David Brooks | Sep 21, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
From Greentech Media (whole story is here): Solar will account for about 482 megawatts of the 546 megawatts of projects approved Tuesday by the Maine Public Utilities Commission. Maine now has about 90 megawatts of solar installed, putting it in the bottom ten states...
by David Brooks | Sep 21, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
With small clusters of COVID-19 popping up at schools and perhaps elsewhere, including the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, New Hampshire’s pandemic situation remains, shall we say, unsettled. But nothing worse than that – at least, not so far. The average number of new...
by David Brooks | Sep 21, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
With less than two weeks left in the official deadline to complete the 2020 Census, there has been no response from people in about 4.5% of households in New Hampshire – roughly 20,000 houses, apartments, short-term housing units, group facilities and condos. About...
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