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By DAVID BROOKS

Any big city exhibits aspects of William Gibson’s famous line that the future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed – but few take it as far as Beijing.(Yes, folks, this is an example of that fine journalistic tradition: the “What I did on...

The Department of the Interior Monday will sell leases on sites for offshore wind in the Gulf of Maine next month. The sale will cover eight areas on the Outer Continental Shelf off Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine. If fully developed, these...

By DAVID BROOKS

Much of social media is nasty, as we all know, but there are places where it is charming. One of those is the Reddit subgroup about composting.Yes, composting.Every day people from around the world post pictures on the group showing their pile of...

By DAVID BROOKS

There’s a group of New Hampshire volunteers who are like mail carriers in that neither rain nor snow will keep them from their appointed rounds.That’s because rain and snow is the reason for their appointed rounds.“My husband and I really like...

By DAVID BROOKS

Moving results from the research world into the real world can be a real challenge but I think the challenge is hardest when the research concerns people’s health.It’s one thing to show that a medicine or treatment or practice helps patients in a lab...

By DAVID BROOKS

Consider this scenario: You go away on vacation and then come home to find that somebody has bought your house without your knowledge and without paying you anything. They lock you out, and your only remedy is to take them to court.Sounds far-fetched,...

By DAVID BROOKS

Concord is gearing up for the start of lower electricity rates through the community power system, with a public information meeting set for Sept. 4, but one question about rates has arisen.The program is set to begin in October, making Concord one of...

By DAVID BROOKS

A New Hampshire resident has died after being infected with EEE virus, a mosquito-born illness that hadn’t been seen in people in this state since 2014.The news, released Tuesday, comes as Massachusetts is seeing a surge in mosquitoes carrying the...

By DAVID BROOKS

Today’s insight into the scientific method is brought to you via a nondescript ocean dweller with the unlyrical name of lumpfish.The lumpfish, as I learned from a UNH press release, was the subject of recent research by Dr. Elizabeth Fairchild, a...

By DAVID BROOKS

The bald eagle who had been marveled at and enjoyed by thousands of people over the past quarter century, acting as one of New Hampshire Audubon’s most popular ambassadors at the Concord facility and in school trips, has died. He was 36.The eagle,...

By DAVID BROOKS

Slow-growing New Hampshire has continued its population gain since the pandemic but with a notable change from past years: Even places far from Boston have added some people.“Traditionally our population growth has occurred along the Massachusetts...

By DAVID BROOKS

This column concerns a New Hampshire housing development that will be net-zero, something the world really needs, but before we get to details let’s face facts: Your first reaction is that it will be too expensive or too weird to make a difference.I...

By DAVID BROOKS

Concord celebrated the eventual arrival of electric school buses Wednesday thanks to federal programs designed to replace the diesel buses that have been polluting schoolyards and streets for decades.The key word, however, is “eventual.” The three...

By DAVID BROOKS

An online scam that pretended to invest a New Hampshire resident’s money in cryptocurrency, complete with a fake account, has been issued a cease and desist order by the state Bureau of Securities.According to a press release from the Secretary of...

By DAVID BROOKS

There’s a good reason why the federal government is giving $450 million to New England to help get electric heat pumps into homes and businesses: They’re great machines and not just for climate change reasons.“I have been saving about $1,000 a year,”...

By DAVID BROOKS

Today’s column, I’m happy to say, involves good news about the environment. It’s not huge news, admittedly, and it’s not quite as exciting as I thought it was going to be, but in today’s world, I’ll take anything I can get.The story concerns a...

By DAVID BROOKS

If New Hampshire is being hit by a summer surge in COVID cases being seen in parts of the country, as hinted by increased amounts of virus in our wastewater, it’s not sending people to the hospital.“As I’ve talked to hospital leaders … they certainly...

By DAVID BROOKS

When a global catastrophe is destroying entire towns overnight via fire, flood and storm, it shouldn’t be hard to convince people that we should take things seriously.If only.It has been 20 years since I began writing stories that warned about the...

By DAVID BROOKS

Comcast Business is trying a new way to reach customers aside from through its cables, collaborating with the Starlink satellite-Internet service from SpaceX.Comcast currently reaches 118 New Hampshire communities in much of southern New Hampshire and...

Considering that he’s one of the state’s most important cybersecurity folks whose organization is helping to secure vital government facilities, there are times when Jason Sgro gives some unexpected advice.“We’ve run into wastewater and drinking water...

By DAVID BROOKS

The software problem that affected systems around the world took New Hampshire’s 911 system offline for a while Friday, delayed or canceled a few flights at Manchester airport, and disrupted hospitals and the states’ court system.“At its height it...