by David Brooks | Feb 18, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Another day, another scam over the phone that pretends to come from a legitimate company – but this one is particularly bad because it’s not just trying to steal money, but to get access into your house. That’s the word from the Sanbornton Police Department. They...
by David Brooks | Feb 18, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Any salesman knows that jokes have to be pitched to the audience, which explains why James Rundlett was confident Friday in the Legislative Office Building using a comment that would have bombed almost anywhere else. “It’s not like it’s a DOS memory card,” said...
by David Brooks | Feb 15, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
(This is a press release from US Geological survey about an ice dam on the small but lovely Piscataquog River. I commute past this ice dam every day – it really is something. And no, I don’t know why USGS spells it “gauge” with a U as one word...
by David Brooks | Feb 14, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
As parts of the U.S. and many countries around the world deal with measles outbreaks in communities that are shunning vaccines, New Hampshire continues to be free of the disease, a reflection of the state’s high rate of school immunization. New Hampshire hasn’t seen a...
by David Brooks | Feb 14, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire has been trying for years to make people get rid of old wood stoves that contribute a disproportionate amount to air pollution, but a bill that would have forced the issue, requiring pre-1986 stoves to be destroyed when the house is sold, seems to have...
by David Brooks | Feb 14, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
A proposal to let New Hampshire adopt ranked-choice voting for the next presidential primary has been shelved for the time being. The Election Law Committee of the state House of Representatives unanimously retained the bill, HB 782, on Wednesday. This means it can be...
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