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Granite Geek: Eversource likes roadside trees – if they’re not too tall, that is
02-10-2025 6:29 PM

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. 


If ‘urgent care’ works for humans, why not for pets? New option coming to Concord
02-09-2025 7:02 AM

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.


A whole lot of people can’t wait to land their plane on a friction-free runway
02-08-2025 7:02 AM

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?


Granite Geek: In world of local farming, smaller and more diverse is better
02-03-2025 3:48 PM

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.


Renaming that body of water? New Hampshire has been there, done that
01-27-2025 1:45 PM

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.


The easiest way to help in a crisis – Give during National Blood Donor month. Here’s how
01-22-2025 12:30 PM

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.


New power-buying rules can trim electric rates but poses more risk to ratepayers
01-21-2025 5:48 PM

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.


When people fled to NH during the pandemic, they brought a lot of money with them
01-21-2025 2:26 PM

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.


Granite Geek: Going electric makes sense with trash just like with cars – but who’s going to pay for it?
01-20-2025 3:39 PM

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Granite Geek: Do heat pumps change the ‘turn down the thermostat at night to save energy’ equation?
01-13-2025 3:27 PM


$15 million grant for more EV charging stations in NH
01-10-2025 12:55 PM

New Hampshire has received a $15 million federal grant to build more public charging locations for electric vehicles.


How do they know how cold it feels when it’s windy out?
01-09-2025 12:19 PM

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?


Study: More than 9,000 have left NH labor market or cut back due to long COVID
01-09-2025 9:23 AM

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.


Granite Geek: What’s the dollar value of a forest that you can’t cut down?
01-06-2025 2:42 PM

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...


Community power program now covers about half of New Hampshire
01-05-2025 1:00 PM

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...


What happened to all that PFAS-filled foam collected in New Hampshire?
01-03-2025 2:11 PM

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...


N.H. to test dairies for bird flu
12-31-2024 2:43 PM

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...


Granite Geek: You can get a local-news-ish product from A.I. Should I be worried?
12-30-2024 1:51 PM

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...


Granite Geek: With Santa on your side, no physics-denying crank has a chance!
12-23-2024 3:57 PM

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...


Migration from other countries props up New Hampshire population growth
12-20-2024 2:47 PM

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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