by David Brooks | May 31, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
I brought my dulcet tones to New Hampshire Public Radio yesterday, as I do most Tuesdays, to talk about my weekly column in The Monitor. This week’s column is about a study by a Dartmouth researcher, among others, that looks at “extreme precipitation...
by David Brooks | May 30, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Interstate 93 through Concord is going to be expanded to three lane in each direction over the next decade or so, which means five very close-to-each-other interchanges will be reworked. Over the last three days, the Monitor has presented detailed options for three of...
by David Brooks | May 26, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
You probably remember seeing the Archimedes Screw in a high school “simple machines” lesson – it has been used for millennia to raise water short distances as part of irrigation systems. New England Hydropower Co. of Beverly, Mass., has just opened a...
by David Brooks | May 25, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Concord Steam, the company that has generated steam heat in the state’s capitol city for eight decades, shut down Wednesday at midnight due to financial and technical issues. I had a look back at its tumultuous history in the Sunday Monitor (you can read it...
by David Brooks | May 24, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
From Dartmouth News Service: Over the past century, the Northeast has experienced an increase in the number of storms with extreme precipitation. A Dartmouth-led study finds that the increase in extreme Northeast storms occurred as an abrupt shift in 1996,...
by David Brooks | May 24, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
“Maine’s Constitution calls for candidates to be selected by plurality, in which the candidate with the most votes wins, even if the vote total is less than a majority.” That sentence is at the heart of this Portland Press-Herald story, which details how...