It’s that time of year again, when the state’s 424 legislators show us what sort of laws they hope to pass in the upcoming session. Their proposals come in the form of LSRs, or legislative service requests. At this point there is no actual wording for the...

From UNH News Service: NH GRANIT, a mapping agency for the state based at the University of New Hampshire, is receiving close to $1 million from the N.H. Department of Business and Economic Affairs (BEA) to inventory and map statewide broadband coverage as well as...

One of these days you’re going to be driving somewhere after a snow squall on slippery streets and you will mutter to yourself, “Doggone it, why don’t they just put down more salt?” Although you might use different words than “doggone it.” Well, I have the answer: The...

As New Hampshire’s hospitals continue to face an onslaught of patients with respiratory problems including COVID – there are no empty beds in any of the state’s pediatric ICU units – a new study shows one weird trick to increase our odds of not becoming one of those...

One of the most interesting things in New Hampshire is Corbin Park, the 25,000-acre private hunting preserve in Sullivan County that is a ticking "feral swine bomb, to use the great phrase from an Atlantic story I mentioned a while back. NHPR’s Outside/In did a great...

This is a PR release I got just before prepping the newsletter - no independent reporting. Detact Diagnostics, a Dutch-based life-sciences company that develops diagnostic tests for the health and food sector, opened its first U.S. operational laboratory in Keene, New...

From Dartmouth Health: Treatments and mitigation strategies for COVID-19—and even the existence of the virus itself—have been questioned, condemned and politicized since 2020, due to rampant misinformation. Mark McEnnis once counted himself among the millions of...

Thanks to climate change, winters are getting warmer across the country, but a new analysis of federal temperature data shows the trend is particularly strong in parts of the northeast. In fact Burlington, Vermont has seen more winter warming in the last 50 years than...

Veteran Union-Leader reporter Mark Hayward is covering the trial of Free Keene activist Ian Freeman on money-laundering charges related to bitcoin/blockchain operations. The first story is here. Tuesday was spent choosing jurors. It's not usually worthwhile to cover...