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By DAVID BROOKS
Magazines like to publish articles titled “30 under 30,” listing 30 newsworthy local folks who are under the age of 30. The state’s biggest electric utility has a different idea for that title.
By DAVID BROOKS
Concord is about to see its first example of a fairly new trend in veterinary medicine: an urgent-care clinic for dogs and cats.
By DAVID BROOKS
Landing and taking off in a small plane can be tricky. Doing it on ice, as 164 people did last Saturday, must be a lot trickier. Right?
By DAVID BROOKS
Those of us whose jobs are spent inside buildings might be concerned about climate change but it’s nothing compared to folks whose livelihood depends on what happens outdoors.
By DAVID BROOKS
A small bay on Squam Lake doesn’t have a lot in common with the Gulf of Mexico, but as of Monday they share at least one attribute: The U.S. Interior Department has changed their name.
By DAVID BROOKS
Below-zero temperatures are a good excuse to find useful things to do indoors, so here’s an idea: Donate a pint of blood.
By DAVID BROOKS
Electric utilities in New Hampshire are changing the way they buy the power that they sell to us, raising the possibility that ratepayers can save money but also the possibility they’ll face big, unexpected bills.
By DAVID BROOKS
It’s common knowledge that lots of people moved to New Hampshire during the pandemic to escape city life and lockdowns. A new analysis shows that they brought a lot of money with them.
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New Hampshire has received a $15 million federal grant to build more public charging locations for electric vehicles.
By DAVID BROOKS
It’s cold outside and you’re trying to decide how much to bundle up. Should your decision be based on the air temperature, the wind chill or the “feels like” number?
By DAVID BROOKS
The lingering effects of COVID-19 have driven an estimated 4,000 people out of New Hampshire’s workforce and led around 5,300 more to reduce their hours, according to a new study from the New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute.
What is a living forest worth in money? That’s a simple-sounding question which has flummoxed New Hampshire for a long time.We know what forests are worth when they are no longer alive, after they’re cut down and sold, but putting a dollar figure on...
By DAVID BROOKS
As community power prepares to enter its third full year in New Hampshire, close to half the state’s population will soon have access to a program which gives towns and cities more control over their electricity source.“We expect continued adoption in...
By DAVID BROOKS
They’re called “forever chemicals” but the program destroying PFAS in New Hampshire firefighting foam shows that a better name might be “everywhere chemicals.”“They really are everywhere,” said Amy Dindal, business line director for Battelle, a...
By DAVID BROOKS
New Hampshire is gearing up to join a federal program testing dairy cattle for virulent strains of bird flu, which so far has been detected here only in some wild birds in early 2024.In other parts of the country, concern about Highly Pathogenic Avian...
By DAVID BROOKS
I promise that this column was written by me and not by artificial intelligence. The fact that I have to write such a sentence says volumes about where we are at the moment.Here’s another one of those volumes: You can get a weekly email summarizing...
By DAVID BROOKS
There’s a standard way to shut down physics cranks who say they’ve disproved Einstein – for some reason, cranks never “disprove” scientists who aren’t famous – and that’s to point to your GPS.The satellite system for tracking our location on Earth...
By DAVID BROOKS
People coming from other countries are playing an increasingly important role in New Hampshire’s small but consistent population growth, recent Census data shows.The number of adults and children living in the Granite State grew 2.3% between the 2020...
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