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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?

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

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...

By DAVID BROOKS

It’s embarrassing that it took a guy from New York to teach me a cool piece of ecological history in a local spot I’ve been to multiple times. And via YouTube, no less – egad!The spot is Dublin Pond, also called Dublin Lake, which is halfway between...

By DAVID BROOKS

Five years after COVID lockdowns supercharged the idea of talking to your doctor or nurse online from home, telehealth has become such a regular part of medical care in New Hampshire that advocates hope the state will loosen laws concerning...

By DAVID BROOKS

New Hampshire residents have always been pretty sensible about getting ourselves vaccinated, certainly better than those scared-of-modernity goofballs in Vermont because we know a good deal when we see it. And you can’t get a much better deal than...

By DAVID BROOKS

When it comes to science, there’s something to be said for longevity. Consider the Lamprey River.The Lamprey, which flows 212 miles from Northwood through Durham to Newmarket, isn’t exactly a huge river but it is the largest contributor of fresh water...

By DAVID BROOKS

Consolidated Communications, which operates the legacy telephone network in New Hampshire, has agreed to be bought for $3.1 billion by private equity firms Searchlight Capital Partners, and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI).The...

By DAVID BROOKS

When Ed Stein passed away in July after a long and happy life that was colored but not constrained by mild autism, his sister Kathy wanted to do something that would memorialize him.“He was the kind of guy where he would walk into a room and it would...

DAVID BROOKS

It might have the world’s worst weather but Mount Washington now has some of the best observed, with five new remote weather monitoring stations going online along the Cog Railway and many more to come.The new stations on the mountain’s west side that...

By DAVID BROOKS

New Hampshire regulators have left in place the state’s net metering program, which pays owners of solar panels when they send power to the grid, but a looming expiration date could make financing more difficult.The order from the Public Utilities...

It’s hard to remember now, but in the Good Old Days – the decade through my teenage years, which is everybody’s definition of Good Old Days – the typewriter was just about the most interesting piece of technology in people’s homes.Whether manual or...

By DAVID BROOKS

Thomas Kurtz, the Dartmouth professor who co-created the computer language BASIC and the networking system DTSS with John Kemeny, helping launch the computer revolution, has died. He was 96.Kurtz was interviewed via email for the Monitor’s Granite...