by David Brooks | May 2, 2017 | Newsletter
New Hampshire Public Radio has a program asking for listeners to suggest story topics. One recent suggestion was a gem: “On the on-ramp on I-93, there’s supposed to be a 1magnetic phenomenon1 where you go uphill when in neutral. Is it real?” Alas,...
by David Brooks | May 1, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Most of the forests in northern New England stopped being logged in the early 20th century, so all the trees tend to be relatively uniform in age – like a city where everybody is 30 years old. This isn’t great for environmental diversity and, it turns...
by David Brooks | Apr 27, 2017 | Newsletter
This is a list of patents issued to N.H. companies or individuals in the past week or so. It’s can be fun to wander through them and try to guess what the heck they’re talking about – but I’d like to see the autonomous floor-cleaning robot. The...
by David Brooks | Apr 27, 2017 | Newsletter
“Golden-flowered dandelions are a cheerfully disguised menace. With the ability to displace native plants, they represent a new threat to the natural communities on New England’s highest peaks and in alpine zones all over the world. It was generally assumed the...
by David Brooks | Apr 27, 2017 | Newsletter
Few things are more irritating to a reporter than getting scooped on home turf by an out-of-state reporter. So I blew my top when I read this piece in Forbes.com about a lawsuit that went to the N.H Supreme Court concerning an insurance claim about a pizza dropped on...
by David Brooks | Apr 26, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
When I first started reporting, energy was a boring subject, dominated by ponderous utilities and stagnant technology – even the nuclear-power debate was largely settled (sorry, Clamshell Alliance). Then deregulation came along, and solar power, and climate...