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 | Oct 31, 2015 | Education, K-12
The region’s long, slow decline in the number of public school students shows no sign of ending, judging from official enrollments for the new school year, and nobody expects that to change any time soon. In the past decade, official Oct. 1 figures show, enrollment in...
by David Brooks | Oct 19, 2015 | Science-Technology
How many phone calls do you receive each night from pollsters? Yeah, me too. February can’t come soon enough. But even though I say “no thank you” through clenched teeth and hang up every time that #$%@! phone interrupts dinner, that doesn’t mean I’m not interested in...
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