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By DAVID BROOKS

As the region’s aviation community anxiously awaits the annual yes-or-no decision about whether the Alton Bay Ice Runway will open, here’s a tidbit to consider: Keeping Cessnas and Beechcraft from crashing through as they land isn’t why officials have...

By DAVID BROOKS

Pembroke residents will get their chance to join the community-power bandwagon soon, with notices going out in mid-January and a Jan. 31 public meeting.The meeting, set for 6:30 p.m. in the Pembroke Academy auditorium, will explain how Pembroke...

By DAVID BROOKS

As I listen to hand-wringing about empty office towers due to people’s continued preference to work from home instead of commuting to a cubicle (those ungrateful swine!), a Christmas thought comes to mind: How is Santa’s workshop doing?I imagine that...

By DAVID BROOKS

Almost a year after it was sold, major changes are coming to Fort Eddy Plaza with at least three large retail stores closing.Eastern Mountain Sports, the outdoor-gear retailer, announced to customers in huge window signs that it will be closing its...

By DAVID BROOKS

In my career, I’ve encountered several non-traditional ways to build a home, from stacking hay bales to rolling out plastic tubes to using 3D-printed concrete. They’ve been fun to talk about but never made the slightest dent in the industry. The...

By DAVID BROOKS

It’s not a surprise that the New Hampshire project that won $2 million in funding in the latest federal conservation program involves saving our salt marshes from a host of threats.“The projects are heavy on watershed restoration – riverways, coastal...

By DAVID BROOKS

One of the supporters of the controversial Elizabeth Gurley Flynn historical marker says the state program that installed and then removed the sign is operating without the necessary legal rules, and he has proposed a solution: He can write...

By DAVID BROOKS

Fans of small ski areas who have watched the resurrection of Crotched and Tenney mountains can pin their downhill hopes on another former New Hampshire site, although it’s a real long shot.Mt. Whittier Ski Area in Ossipee, which had one of the...

By DAVID BROOKS

The developer of a proposed mixed-use building where the former CVS store was located on North Main Street is reassessing plans after the city rejected his request to let it partially block the view of the State House Dome from the highway.Concord...

By DAVID BROOKS

When it comes to our electric bills, sometimes global fuel trends giveth and sometimes they taketh away. Right now they’re giving.Eversource on Thursday said it has asked state regulators to cut its energy supply rate as part of the twice-yearly...

By DAVID BROOKS

I went to a vaccine conference at Dartmouth last week to learn more about the most depressing piece of research I’ve ever encountered. Amazingly, I came away a tiny bit more optimistic.The ongoing research by Brendan Nyhan, a professor of government...

By DAVID BROOKS

When it comes to senior citizens and technology, the problem isn’t really that things are too complicated. The problem is that they won’t stand still.“Technology is an issue with a lot of seniors – it changes so quickly,” said Lori Mckinney, program...

By DAVID BROOKS

If Concord buys a former insurance building to become a future police station, an idea that will be discussed by the city council Monday night, the $4 million purchase would only be the start of costs.Concord’s capital improvements program includes an...

By DAVID BROOKS

The long-simmering idea that Canterbury should withdraw from the Shaker Regional School District is back at the forefront following a study committee’s support of the idea.This is the third time Canterbury has considered withdrawing from the...

By DAVID BROOKS

There are three common reasons why a long-time local business shuts down these days. Marshall’s Flowers and Gifts, which will close at the end of the year after six decades in Boscawen, is facing all three.The first reason is finding staff, which has...

By DAVID BROOKS

There’s a category of online commentary called TIL, for “today I learned,” that provides a context for the writer to mention some intriguing piece of information they recently encountered. It’s basically a watered-down version of “Ripley’s Believe It...

By DAVID BROOKS

Batting cages and artificial turf have been replaced by 25,000-pound machines and mechanical parts by the thousands in Concord as a major provider of snow groomers has moved here.Prinoth, an Italian manufacturer of snow-grooming machines that lists...

By DAVID BROOKS

As is well known, public school enrollment is slipping throughout New Hampshire and falling sharply in some places.Somebody forgot to tell Bow and Dunbarton.In the decade since much smaller Dunbarton joined Bow in a two-town school district, public...

By DAVID BROOKS

Two years after the Public Utilities Commission surprised many by virtually killing the long-standing NH Saves program that spurs energy efficiency in New Hampshire, it has reinstated the program. But only, it seems, because lawmakers made them.“The...

By DAVID BROOKS

The New Hampshire Supreme Court has taken into consideration arguments from an Auburn man that ballot-counting machines shouldn’t be used at polling places because the correct legal underpinning does not exist in New Hampshire’s constitution.Daniel...