It has long been a claim by New Hampshire anti-solar folks that net metering (paying people with rooftop solar when they send electricity back to the grid) is unfair, shifting costs to people who don't have solar. Not so, say folks who should know: The state's power...

VTDigger reports that the road to sleepy Hollow Farm, the ultimate Vermont photo site, will be closed during leaf-peeping because Tiktok etc. has increased the tourist flow to unmanageable levels. Full story is here. Last year, in an attempt to address traffic woes,...

The weird thing about New Hampshire’s housing crisis from my point of view is that it seems to have erupted out of nowhere. One day we had a tight but bearable market for rentals and home ownership; the next day there wasn’t an open apartment south of the White...

(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 Sept. 2. *** Adaptive Angle Sensor ALLEGRO MICROSYSTEMS, LLC, Manchester,...

Rising sea levels cause all sorts of problems, of course, but one of them is invisible: It increases the likelihood of salt water oozing into fresh-water aquifers, which taints wells. Here's a story from the New Bedford Light in Massachusetts: This phenomenon is...

In a rational world, we would pay for road construction and upkeep by charging cars, trucks and motorcycles on a per-mile basis with a weight multiplier, thus reflecting the actual usage and damage that we do. It could also include a small set fee to reflect the fact...

Jon “maddog” Hall is many things, most notably a Linux guru and New Hampshire’s most famous software evangelist, but here’s what he isn’t: Reassuring about the arrival of the technologies known as artificial intelligence. Consider this exchange during a recent...