by David Brooks | Dec 28, 2015 | Gov-State, None
For the first time since John Adams was president, more people live in New Hampshire than in Maine. But that doesn’t mean New Hampshire has shed its recent slow-growth history. It’s just that Maine has started to shrink. “The big thing is that more people are dying in...
by David Brooks | Dec 19, 2015 | Gov-Local, None
The gleaming solar panels at Proctor Academy that sit atop the Maloney Hockey Rink, the Alan Shepard Boathouse and next to the school’s ski area are technically complex, but financial complexity is what really brought them to life. “What’s great about it for the host...
by David Brooks | Nov 26, 2015 | Health, None
New Hampshire got the benefit this year of the ebb and flow of West Nile virus and EEE, two widespread mosquito-borne diseases, but that doesn’t mean either one is going away. Testing in 2015 found no people and just one animal – a raven – positive for West Nile...
by David Brooks | Nov 17, 2015 | None, None
It wasn’t so long ago that solar panels were only embraced by off-grid engineering hippies. Boy, have things changed. “Most consumers that we speak with have a basic understanding at this point, have either seen it or have first-hand knowledge through acquaintances or...
by David Brooks | Nov 3, 2015 | None, Science-Technology
Confession is good for the soul, they say, so let me confess some apiary sins: Three times over the past decade, my family beehive has failed to survive the winter. That’s at least 100,000 insects who have gone to meet their maker under the Brooks family watch....
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