by David Brooks | Dec 7, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The MIT-connected startup Altaeros Energies has built a blimp hangar in Fremont, N.H. – halfway between Manchester and the Seacoast – to do R&D on their plan to use blimps as cheap cell towers in rural areas. The Union-Leader reports that they had their first test...
by David Brooks | Dec 6, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The state’s demographics guru, Ken Johnson of the UNH Carsey School of Public Policy, regularly crunches census data to give big-picture looks at our population. A report out today is good news for this aged state: More young adults are moving here from other...
by David Brooks | Dec 6, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The early arrival of cold weather has brought up hopes of outdoor ice skating before Christmas – always an iffy possibility, since it requires both enough cold weather and not so much snow that ponds are unskateable. I’m going to the Everett Arena in...
by David Brooks | Dec 5, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The man who lost the first ever election in the US to used ranked-choice voting to decide a statewide race is suing, with an eye toward getting the national Supreme Court to say that this type of voting is unconstitutional, reports the Portland Press-Herald. Poliquin...
by David Brooks | Dec 5, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
UPDATE: The original headline said “State government needs you” for COBOL programmers, which grossly overstates the case. I heard from a couple COBOL-wise job seekers, including one from Brazil, so I’ve tweaked it. It’s pretty easy to see why the...
by David Brooks | Dec 4, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
If I was going to redesign the national power grid, perhaps the biggest and most complicated thing that the human species has ever created, I wouldn’t think of starting in a quiet part of coastal Maine. But maybe I should. “We figured if we could do this in Boothbay,...