by David Brooks | Mar 25, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
I am ashamed that when writing a story about the Concord street department having reported 4,000 potholes in the city, I didn’t think to include a “Day in the Life” parody. (slaps forehead!) Better late than never: 4,000 potholes in Concord New...
by David Brooks | Mar 25, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The geek canonization (so to speak) of Ralph Baer continues to gather steam. Officials in Manchester are scheduled to hold a dedication ceremony on May 10 of what will become, unofficially at least, Ralph Baer Plaza in Arms Park, on the bank of the Merrimack River...
by David Brooks | Mar 22, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Tiny Chesterfield, home to 3,600 people between Keene, N.H., and Brattleboro, Vt., appears to be the first town in the state to take advantage of a new state law allowing municipal broadband internet. The Brattleboro Reformer had this story in advance of the town...
by David Brooks | Mar 22, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
I have a story in today’s Monitor about potholes and mud season – pretty typical March stuff for New Hampshire. But I got a surprise while reporting it: The city of Concord counts potholes, and last year at this time they had twice as many as this year...
by David Brooks | Mar 21, 2019 | Newsletter
Voters in Fall River, Mass., simultaneously threw out their mayor and re-elected him last week, in an embarrassing display of democracy ineptitude. The problem, as you might suspect, is that lots of people were running to replace the disgraced mayor and they split the...
by David Brooks | Mar 19, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
One of the pleasures of being a (very) minor public figure associated with science is that sometimes I hear from people who have “disproved” major findings. In my earlier, more self-assured days I called these folks “cranks” – as in...
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