by David Brooks | Sep 30, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Last week the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled in favor of Portsmouth’s denial of an Airbnb permit. A couple wanted to rent out the house next to them, but the city said zoning wouldn’t allow it. Here’s my story in the Monitor. The ruling is the...
by David Brooks | Sep 27, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
I visited Merrimack Station this week, in advance of Saturday protests against the biggest coal-fired power plant in the region (and soon in New England). The big takeaway is that that the plant hardly ever runs – roughly the equivalent of 23 days in all of 2018...
by David Brooks | Sep 27, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Probably the most famous mathematical work with a New Hampshire connection is the proof of the four-color theorem, done by Wolfgang Haken and Ken Appel in 1976. (Appel later moved to New Hampshire and became head of the mathematics department at UNH, so the Granite...
by David Brooks | Sep 25, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Regular readers (hi, mom!) know that I love culverts, those thousands of pipes/mini-bridges under that carry streams under New Hampshire roadways. They are the perfect symbol and example of the reality of dealing with climate change, which is why this blog has seen...
by David Brooks | Sep 25, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
For the time in New Hampshire, this weekend will see a new roadway bridge slid into place over a waterway instead of being constructed there part of ongoing upgrades to Route 16 in Ossipee. “It’s our first time,” said Eileen Meaney, chief communications officer...
by David Brooks | Sep 24, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
I have long maintained that on a per-capita basis, New Hampshire is the science cafe champion in the U.S. That’s thanks in large part to the example set by Science Cafe New Hampshire, which started nine years ago and is still going strong, in both Nashua and...
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