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,...
by David Brooks | Dec 4, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Regular readers will know that the original science fiction magazine “Amazing Stories” has developed a New Hampshire connection, since a state resident bought the rights to the name and relaunched it, first online and most recently (as I noted here) in...
by David Brooks | Dec 3, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: A pathologist with the New Hampshire Veterinary Diagnostic Lab at the University of New Hampshire has identified the first case of Skunk Adenovirus-1 in the United States. The rare respiratory disease was found in tissues of a hedgehog...
by David Brooks | Dec 2, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
As the Concord Monitor reports today, there’s a new push to have an impartial group of people, rather than the political party in power, draw legislative boundaries in New Hampshire. Similar pushes are being made around the country in response to concern about...
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