by David Brooks | May 20, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
Electrical utility Unitil is holding “Squirrel Week.” This is the third year that Unitil has dedicated a week in May toward highlighting the challenges posed by squirrels and other wildlife. Unitil will focus on squirrel-related issues and the efforts the...
by David Brooks | May 20, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through May 19. *** Display Screen With Icon BOTTOMLINE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.,...
by David Brooks | May 17, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
Merchant Fleet in Hooksett recently added 13 charging ports to its existing supply of 12, to meet employee demand for places to plug in their cars during the day. NHBR has a story about the unveiling here. I can’t decide if we should be impressed or depressed...
by David Brooks | May 17, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
When the Monitor ran a story recently that some residents in Boscawen were disagreeing about the design of a town flag, it produced this reaction among an awful lot of readers: “Wait – towns have flags?!? Who knew?” Not many people, it turns out, because the idea that...
by David Brooks | May 17, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
The two anti-vaccine bills that I wrote about last month have been shelved and are dead this year, although they can always come back. After they passed the House due to GOP support, the Senate Health and Human Services committee is sending both to “interim...
by David Brooks | May 15, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
If you, like me, often despair of producing a garden in the mix of stones, sand and grit that New Hampshire optimistically calls “soil,” remember that it could be worse. You could be working with dirt from the moon. “It’s hard to grow in this material. It’s basically...
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