by David Brooks | May 31, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
I’m out of town most of this week, so I won’t be putting much on the blog and newsletter – so you can squander more of your time with other online frivolity! But just in case you’re bored, here’s a tweaked version of a column I wrote last...
by David Brooks | May 31, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
EchoRidge, a Concord startup that wants to make it easier for people to hire political lobbyists, came in second at the annual Startup Shindig held by the N.H. Tech Alliance last night in Manchester, and pocketed $100,000. (Union-Leader story here.) First place and...
by David Brooks | May 30, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire has thrown in the towel in its efforts to restore the Atlantic salmon to our rivers – dams, pollution, baby-salmon-eating striped bass and changes in ocean temperature and acidity have proved too much to overcome. But efforts are still going on in...
by David Brooks | May 30, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
UPDATE: If you stumbled on this via Google, check the update (right here) – the owners do look like they’ll open in 2020. The most intriguing techy story out of New Hampshire in the past six months was the proposal by a Utah firm called Q Hydrogen to use...
by David Brooks | May 29, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
You want to know why China stopped accepting most of the plastic and “fiber” (industry term for paper and cardboard) that we shipped them, causing our recycling costs to soar and the industry to freak out? Various geopolitical factors no doubt were a...
by David Brooks | May 28, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
A poster of the original German release of Fritz Lang’s ‘Metropolis’ in 1927. I am slightly embarrassed that I have never seen “Metropolis”, the 1927 silent film that is generally considered the grandfather of all science fiction movies....
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