by David Brooks | Apr 2, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Update: It passed the House on April 4, 209-146, It will still have to go to the state Senate and the governor’s desk. Being a tourist destination can be good for business but hard on roads and other municipal services, which is why the legislature may let...
by David Brooks | Mar 28, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The disagreement over genetically-modified organisms has shown up in an unexpected place: Efforts to resurrect the American chestnut tree, which was wiped out by blight last century. The American Chestnut Foundation has spent years cross-breeding a few surviving...
by David Brooks | Mar 26, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Here in New Hampshire it feels like distributed solar power, mostly rooftop solar panels, is growing fast. Just look at this chart from the Public Utilities Commission: Whoopee, right? Well, maybe not. Check out the map at the top of this article, which shows...
by David Brooks | Mar 26, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
You know a problem is serious when your physicians, veterinarians, dentists, laboratory staff, medical technicians and even the occasional reporter crowd into a single room to talk about it. Resistance to antibiotics, as a Concord symposium last week demonstrated, is...
by David Brooks | Mar 25, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Among the endless free advertising – sorry, I mean technology journalism – produced out of Monday’s product rollout by Apple there is a small New Hampshire connection: One of the shows being produced for Apple TV’s new streaming service will...
by David Brooks | Mar 25, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Old-time stone walls in New England were often built along property lines and property lines were often laid out along compass directions. Ergo, they inadvertently provide a record of changing magnetic declination cause by the slow movement of magnetic north. That...