by David Brooks | Feb 19, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
Northern New England is a relatively safe place to work if you do roadside assistance, judging from a AAA study (which you can see here). The group found 123 roadside assistance providers – people from tow truck drivers to cops who responding to crashes or car...
by David Brooks | Feb 16, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
I came of age just as calculators began to displace slide rules. I learned how to use one for simple arithmetic but even my gray-haired math teacher admitted it was more as a fun trick than a useful skill. I’ve written a few times about New Hampshire members of...
by David Brooks | Feb 15, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
I have learned to be very, very suspicious of any legislative action in New Hampshire that tosses around the word “liberty” – the term has been tainted by self-described libertarians who use it to mean “let me do whatever I want even if it...
by David Brooks | Feb 14, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
Merrimack Station in Bow, NH, is New England’s last coal-fired power plant. It will operate as a peaker plant through at least 2026, when it stops getting automatic capacity payments from the regional grid. I assume it will shut soon after for financial reasons,...
by David Brooks | Feb 13, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
From a short article in Northern Woodlands: The average hurricane downs 5 to 10 percent of aboveground forest carbon across the region, but modeled future increases in hurricane strength increase this percentage, even unprecedently inland and northward into Vermont...
by David Brooks | Feb 13, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
You have probably heard the phrase “data is not the plural of anecdote,” meaning that evidence which has been gathered systematically is far more valuable than a collection of individual stories. I certainly have heard it, and I have used it myself, but I didn’t...