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By DAVID BROOKS

If you have ever winced at hearing a presidential candidate pronounce the Capital City’s name as “kon-KORD” rather than “KON-kerd,” there’s a piece of legislation you may be interested in.A proposed bill (currently LSR 2453) filed by city Democrat...

The couch in my living room is against an outside wall, right under a window. I have spent three decades trying to eliminate the draft against the back of my neck when I sit there.WindowDressers might have an answer. Better than that: They go about it...

By DAVID BROOKS

New Hampshire has joined 41 other states suing Facebook and Instagram for using “addictive” algorithms that “exploit the developmental vulnerabilities of children and trap them into never-ending use.” The complaint filed in Merrimack County Superior...

By DAVID BROOKS

Developers who want to build fast-charging stations for electric vehicles along interstate highways and Route 202 are being invited to submit plans as part of New Hampshire’s belated efforts to join the EV bandwagon. The New Hampshire Department of...

By DAVID BROOKS

The most interesting energy thing happening in New Hampshire right now isn’t due to cool tech or federal money, it’s part of that terribly ho-hum tedious topic, local governance.Actually, it’s more ho-hum than that: It’s county governance.Compared to...

By DAVID BROOKS

As more New Hampshire lakes suffer from blooms of toxic algae due to warming weather and increased development, two water bodies in Henniker were part of a study of a faster way to spot outbreaks, using drones.“With the (drone), a small lake might...

By DAVID BROOKS

When local folks who have been working to return the glorious American chestnut tree to our forest gather Saturday in Lebanon to celebrate an anniversary, there will be a big question looming overhead.What should they do when the genetically modified...

By DAVID BROOKS

Take a look at the state’s brand-new Code of Ethics For Generative Artificial Intelligence. If you have certain literary preferences, which you probably do if you’re reading this column, something will look familiar.“I’m so glad you mentioned that,”...

By DAVID BROOKS

It says something about New Hampshire’s climate that the annual sustainability report from our largest electric utility discusses ice storms, tornadoes, floods and even microbursts, but doesn’t mention wildfiresIt says something else that this may...

By DAVID BROOKS

When a full solar eclipse sweeps through New Hampshire next April, I’ll be gazing at the sky through proper safety glasses. And maybe I’ll be listening, too.Listening to a solar eclipse? That seems kind of ridiculous. It seemed ridiculous at first to...

By DAVID BROOKS

I have a confession to make: I really like the look of a mowed lawn. But I’m trying to kick the habit.I know the classic suburban lawn has the ecological value of a parking lot, that the model of a weekly-mowed monoculture contributes to the alarming...

Owners of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids registering their vehicles this month will see an extra surcharge, assuming the local clerk’s software got updated in time.As of Sept. 1, fully electric vehicles must pay an extra $100 during annual...

Portions of the scrubland around Concord Municipal Airport will be burned this fall to help wildlife including the state butterfly, the endangered Karner blue.The controlled burn in what is known as the Concord pine barrens, a rare ecosystem in New...

By DAVID BROOKS

New Hampshire’s fall hunting seasons start rolling out Sept. 1 amid signs that a decades-long decline in the number of hunters has finally ended.The state sold 50,599 hunting licenses to residents in 2022, about 11% more than the pre-COVID year of...

By DAVID BROOKS

Jon “maddog” Hall is many things, most notably a Linux guru and New Hampshire’s most famous software evangelist, but here’s what he isn’t: Reassuring about the arrival of the technologies known as artificial intelligence.Consider this exchange during...

By DAVID BROOKS

Runway safety meetings are being held at the four airports in New Hampshire with control towers in what federal officials say is a routine annual process. Concord Municipal Airport, which does not have a tower, is not among them.The meetings gather...

By DAVID BROOKS

In 1929, American writers Willie and Katie Seabrook took time off from palling around with Ernest Hemingway in France to visit West Africa, where they gathered material for his travel book and her children’s books.While they were being escorted by...

When it comes to medical breakthroughs, my mind has always taken a techno-futuristic turn, as you would expect from the name of this column.We need swallowable robot pills! 3D-printed human tissue! Manipulated DNA! Then everything will be better.This...

If you should make lemonade when life hands you lemons, what should you do when life hands your big project a pandemic lockdown?Make ventilation.“We had broken ground and one week later everything shut down. We literally put up a (construction) fence...

By DAVID BROOKS

Considering they sit at the top of the tallest buildings around and are designed to be easily visible, the hundreds of big town hall and church clocks around New England face an odd problem.“They’re out of sight, out of mind,” is how Philip D’Avanza...