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By DAVID BROOKS

Next weekend marks four years since New Hampshire saw its first death from what was then called “the novel coronavirus,” and although COVID-19 isn’t taking many lives these days, the passage of time shows it has ushered us into an unhappy new normal...

By DAVID BROOKS

Concord and several area towns are getting on the community power bandwagon.The City Council unanimously voted Monday to adopt the program, which allows communities to participate in buying electricity rather than just getting it through the local...

When the AT&T mobile network went down nationally last month, taking some other networks down with it, folks in Dunbarton were able to shrug things off.“Oftentimes folks say, ‘I haven’t had a landline in years. I always rely on my cell phone.’ ... We...

By DAVID BROOKS

An electric-car-charging station has just been installed at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport.Actually, that isn’t quite accurate. It’s really an electric-car-and-electric-plane-charging station. That might surprise you because there aren’t any...

By DAVID BROOKS

There’s one month to go before a full solar eclipse comes through New Hampshire and people are getting excited. The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center has the numbers to prove it.The science museum alongside NHTI put in an order for 500 pairs of...

By DAVID BROOKS

Another proposal to bring large amounts of electricity from Quebec into New Hampshire, one that would have used existing power lines that cut through a corner of Concord, has died despite hefty support from the federal government.National Grid said...

Here’s a statement I used to firmly believe but now realize is often wrong: “Government should not pick technology winners and losers.”It can be true, of course, but there are times when the representatives of “we the people” need to take the lead...

By DAVID BROOKS

Some people on the Verizon cell phone network did not receive the series of Amber Alerts sent out Friday concerning two missing New Hampshire children, and the state is trying to figure out why.“I have heard from other folks that have a Verizon phone,...

By DAVID BROOKS

Hoping to turn the total solar eclipse on April 8 into a tourism bonanza, New Hampshire state government has created an online portal touting seasonal trips, places to stay and other things to do as preparations ramp up around the area.One event will...

By DAVID BROOKS

New Hampshire likes to be different. To celebrate our uniqueness we point to things like motorcycle helmet freedom and cannabis lack of freedom – nobody said we were consistent – and freeway signage.Freeway signage? Yes, we are one of just a couple of...

By DAVID BROOKS

The nation’s first major offshore wind farm, the under-construction Vineyard Wind off Massachusetts, has shown up in an important, if obscure, location.The project is one of more than 900 energy providers of various types who won bids to receive...

By DAVID BROOKS

New Hampshire loves our 603 area code, even though area codes mean less and less in this cellphone-number-portability world, and for 30 years we’ve been freaking out about reports that we’re going to “run out of numbers” and will need a second area...

ManchesterAnother low-cost airlines comes to NH airportA new low-cost airline is starting service at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport, flying to Minnesota once a week as of August.Sun Country Airlines, which is based in Minneapolis, will fly Boeing...

By DAVID BROOKS

Almost a year after it failed a required emissions test and after a few unsuccessful attempts to complete the process, the Merrimack Station power plant in Bow has received a hard deadline from the state to meet air pollution guidelines.“There were...

By DAVID BROOKS

The community power program continues to advance in most of the state but is facing a potential pause in three towns that are caught in an unexpected tangle over electricity rates.The Merrimack County Board of Commissioners voted in December to join...

Convicted bitcoin fraudster Ian Freeman must pay $3.5 million in restitution to 29 victims and forfeit other assets that were seized during the investigation, U.S Attorney Jane Young announced.Freeman, 43, of Keene was convicted in 2022 by a federal...

By DAVID BROOKS

You have probably heard the phrase “data is not the plural of anecdote,” meaning that evidence which has been gathered systematically is far more valuable than a collection of individual stories.I certainly have heard it, and I have used it myself,...

By DAVID BROOKS

ISO-New England, the folks who run the six-state power grid, have announced results for the latest capacity auction, which pays power plants a fixed amount regardless of their output, a system designed to make sure there will be enough electricity...

By DAVID BROOKS

If you’re waiting for one of the signs that winter has finally arrived in New Hampshire – the declaration of “ice-in” at Lake Winnipesaukee – it’s been touch and go all season.“I’m thinking this year we’re not going to see it,” said Dave Emerson of...

By DAVID BROOKS

The robocalls that imitated President Joe Biden telling people not to bother voting in New Hampshire’s presidential primary were generated by a Texas-based public relations firm called Life Corporation “and an individual named Walter Monk,” according...