The National Student Center has released its fall 2019 enrollment estimates for all colleges and universities, and there' a surprise: Despite the lamentation over dropping numbers of students in the Northeast, enrollment in New Hampshire has risen. I suspect this is...

Is an electric bike a motorized vehicle that should be banned from hiking and mountain-biking trails? Most of the hiking and trail-riding community say yes; a lot of other folks say no. That's the question in a debate over whether the Forest Service should allow them...

From UNH News Service: More than 20% of potential voters in the 2020 New Hampshire primary were either not old enough to vote in 2016 or resided somewhere other than New Hampshire, according to new research released by the Carsey School of Public Policy at the...

A reader alerted us to a weird anomaly: Many married women who take their husband's last name but use their maiden name as their middle name find that their marriage certificate doesn't provide legal evidence of that middle-name change. This is proving an obstacle...

The right-to-repair folks in central New Hampshire should be mourning, because an iconic (to a certain segment of the population) electronics surplus store in Manchester is shutting down. Mark Hayward, the Union-Leader's excellent city columnist, visited and wrote...

Photovoltaic electricity is great stuff and we need lots more of it - but it does have shortcomings. A snowy December, when the sun is low on the horizon, has shown me (a new owner of PV rooftop panels) just how big the shortcomings can be. The chart below shows the...