by David Brooks | Jun 17, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s a bill in the N.H. legislature that seems to support at-home, behind-the-meter battery storage. I say “seems” because the devil is in the detais and when lawmaking and utility regulation overlap, the details get too detailed for me to be sure...
by David Brooks | Jun 17, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
I can’t wait for Science Cafe New Hampshire to return to three-dimensional space, but there’s one advantage to a virtual SCNH viewed through the computer screen: Videos! At last night’s SCNH, that mean videos of flying cars! Woo-hoo! You can watch...
by David Brooks | Jun 17, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The New Hampshire Senate passed a whole slew of bills yesterday, trying to catch up with COVID-related delays. Included in an overall transportation bill was HB-1517, “An Act Relative to Roadable Aircraft.” I wrote about this bill last year, but it has...
by David Brooks | Jun 17, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Legal documents are notoriously hard to read but that’s not because lawyers are bad writers – not entirely, anyway. Anybody who has ever tried to write a document with some legal heft knows that it’s hard to develop wording that conveys exactly what...
by David Brooks | Jun 15, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
I’m looking at four data points each week (decline in new cases, low absolute number of new cases, high population testing, low positive rate of tests) to measure how New Hampshire is doing with the COVID-19 pandemic. You can see this week’s report here....
by David Brooks | Jun 14, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
As I write this (June 14th) sunrise has occurred at the earliest clock time of the year – 5:05:33 a.m. in Concord, a tiny bit later where I am, an hour south. But it’s not the longest day of the year, meaning the most hours of daylight – that...