by David Brooks | Aug 19, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Looking for the SARS-CoV2 virus in sewage is a hot topic, if also a smelly one. I wrote last month about Keene’s plans to test the city’s wastewater as a relatively quick and easy way to spot a COVID-19 outbreak (from, say, a bunch of returning college...
by David Brooks | Aug 19, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
School buses, especially in cities, are perfect vehicles to be electric: They have set, predictable routes and return to the same place every day for charging. And being fleet vehicles, the cost savings in fuel and especially maintenance will be immediately...
by David Brooks | Aug 19, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
“The unsung heroes of the pandemic are supply chain managers” says the headline on a story in the Monitor (read it here) and boy that’s true. Most of us hadn’t even heard the term “supply chain” until a few months ago and now our...
by David Brooks | Aug 18, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
It has always surprised me how many places in New Hampshire are named “rattlesnake.” There’s Rattlesnake Hill in Concord, of course – home to Swenson Granite – and boaters know Rattlesnake Island in Lake Winnipesaukee, but there are also five other Rattlesnake Hills...
by David Brooks | Aug 18, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
In the old days of local journalism, nothing irritated me more than having a competitor do the story I was planning to do, just before I did it. The profession was pretty competitive back then. But the collapse of the business model for local journalism and resulting...
by David Brooks | Aug 17, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The Monitor is tracking four measurements every week to judge the state of the COVID-19 pandemic in New Hampshire, but there are plenty of other measurements compiled by the state also worth considering. One of them is “percent recovered,” which as one reader has...
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