by David Brooks | Dec 16, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The National Student Center has released its fall 2019 enrollment estimates for all colleges and universities, and there’ a surprise: Despite the lamentation over dropping numbers of students in the Northeast, enrollment in New Hampshire has risen. I suspect...
by David Brooks | Dec 16, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Is an electric bike a motorized vehicle that should be banned from hiking and mountain-biking trails? Most of the hiking and trail-riding community say yes; a lot of other folks say no. That’s the question in a debate over whether the Forest Service should allow...
by David Brooks | Dec 16, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: More than 20% of potential voters in the 2020 New Hampshire primary were either not old enough to vote in 2016 or resided somewhere other than New Hampshire, according to new research released by the Carsey School of Public Policy at the...
by David Brooks | Dec 16, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
A reader alerted us to a weird anomaly: Many married women who take their husband’s last name but use their maiden name as their middle name find that their marriage certificate doesn’t provide legal evidence of that middle-name change. This is proving an...
by David Brooks | Dec 14, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The right-to-repair folks in central New Hampshire should be mourning, because an iconic (to a certain segment of the population) electronics surplus store in Manchester is shutting down. Mark Hayward, the Union-Leader’s excellent city columnist, visited and...
by David Brooks | Dec 13, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
I’ve written about the Hooksett sewer disks and their trans-Atlantic voyage many times (here are examples from 2019 and 2018) but the story of the 4 million biofilm disks that escaped in 2011 never gets old. They’re still turning up on beaches in North...