Pardon a personal rant, but for more than a decade my family has been fighting an invasive weed known as black swallowwort. It's a vine that grows up from the ground and tangles everything; when we bought our property it had filled one field to the point that it was...

As I've noted several times, New Hampshire is one of the hotbeds of retail bitcoin usage thanks largely to the ultra-libertarian Free Staters. I believe we have more public bitcoin vending machines per capita than any state. For a short period s of July 31, however,...

It has always seemed obvious to me that it would be good for battling climate change, as well as good for local jobs and taxes, if tree-filled Northern New England created more electricity and heat by burning wood rather than burning coal, oil or gas. After all,...

I commute past a really odd-looking house in the town of Hopkinton. In summertime news can get slow, making it hard to fill the paper at times. So let's find out about the house! That's what I did: The story is in the Monitor, and you can read it right here.

(This story appeared in the July 6 Monitor. As of this writing, all the comments posted at the end of it are thoughtful, well-written and in complete paragraph form. Go figure.) This week’s decision by the New Hampshire Union Leader to end readers’ ability to post...