The New Hampshire legislature has tabled - "laid to table" is the phrase they use - efforts to give degree-granting status to Signum University, an online masters-level college with a small physical presence in Nashua. That doesn't mean the idea is dead, since the...

I cover lots of non-tech/science stuff as part of my job, and one of the things I've done for a couple of years is to cover the Concord Chamber of Commerce's annual Economic Forecast Luncheon in which an analyst from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston talks about...

New Hampshire town meetings are concerned with the local-est of local issues - two-acre zoning or buying a new fire truck or whether to spend money on a municipal fireworks display for July 4. But some folks are trying to get a national, even global, issue on the...

By now you’ve probably heard of electric-vehicle “range anxiety,” where drivers worry they’ll run out of power before they can get to a charging station. If your vehicle propels itself by blowing up liquefied dinosaur remains you might feel smug but maybe...

NHPR's Annie Ropeik has a story about EPA approving a sort of group-hug methodology for reducing the amount of nitrogen that ends up in the Great Bay from surrounding towns. This is a common situation where the problem is worse than the sum of the parts because...

Do you want to hear about another thing being hurt by warming winters? Probably not, but here it is anyway: Dogsled racing. The Appalachian Mountain Club has a big story about the problem (read it right here) called "Menace to Mushing". In a 2014 interview, Dave...