by David Brooks | Jul 12, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
It has always seemed obvious to me that it would be good for battling climate change, as well as good for local jobs and taxes, if tree-filled Northern New England created more electricity and heat by burning wood rather than burning coal, oil or gas. After all,...
by David Brooks | Jul 11, 2017 | Newsletter
New Hampshire Business Review had a profile of Alta Motors, a California-based maker of electric motorcycles. It’s a small operation, building about 10 bikes a buy, but is ramping up – and the story says the founders think that selling their 5.8 kWh...
by David Brooks | Jul 11, 2017 | Newsletter
At the New Hampshire Department of Transportation, aviation planner Rita Castonguay Hunt says she fields many calls about drones. “I’d say about one-third of what I do now involves UAS (unmanned aerial systems),” said Hunt, who also teaches UAV...
by David Brooks | Jul 11, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Ten years ago, when FairPoint Communications said it would buy most of the state’s landline telephones from Verizon, everybody freaked out. It was the biggest story in the state for months, even years, and the air was thick with portents of doom. Last week, FairPoint...
by David Brooks | Jul 6, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
I commute past a really odd-looking house in the town of Hopkinton. In summertime news can get slow, making it hard to fill the paper at times. So let’s find out about the house! That’s what I did: The story is in the Monitor, and you can read it right...
by David Brooks | Jul 6, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
(This story appeared in the July 6 Monitor. As of this writing, all the comments posted at the end of it are thoughtful, well-written and in complete paragraph form. Go figure.) This week’s decision by the New Hampshire Union Leader to end readers’ ability to post...
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