by David Brooks | Jul 26, 2017 | Newsletter
This isn’t all that geeky, but what the heck: As New Hampshire celebrated its fast-growing beer industry at the fourth annual Brewers Festival on Saturday, it’s faced with the realization that we’re still in the shadow of our neighbors to the west. “On a...
by David Brooks | Jul 26, 2017 | Newsletter
Dave Solomon at the Union-Leader wrote a good, long look at the price/customer issues facing Eversource (nee PSNH), the state’s largest electricity utility. He says the majority of commercial customers and 23 percent of residential customer now buy from...
by David Brooks | Jul 24, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
In response to my column last week celebrating (despite the many drawbacks) a global trend of smaller families, some readers and callers said that the real solution to planetwide environmental destruction is for each of us humans to consume fewer resources, rather...
by David Brooks | Jul 19, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Great story by the Washington Post (reprinted in the Bangor Daily News here) about why the white-footed mouse is such a prolific carrier of Lyme disease: What makes the mice such excellent carriers? Lax grooming habits. Passive immune systems. Endless offspring that...
by David Brooks | Jul 19, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
The most hopeful change in human society that has occurred during my lifetime – a change that must continue if our grandchildren have any hope of a decent life – is really bad. It’s bad economically, bad socially, even bad culturally. But if you love your kids like I...
by David Brooks | Jul 19, 2017 | Newsletter
NASCAR fans in New Hampshire are lamenting the fact that NH International Speedway has dropped one of two races that it hosts each year – as the Monitor’s Ray Duckler noted in an article about last weekend’s race at Loudon, titled “Sound...
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