David Brooks

A huge trade show coming to NHTI on Friday, Nov. 15, to show off the range of jobs available in industries known loosely as “the trades” is targeting students, as you would expect. But it has another audience at least as important: Their parents.“By...

In a long and storied journalism career, mostly at the Concord Monitor and its sister paper the Valley News, Mark Travis occupied just about every position available in local newspapers, from freelance writer to publisher. But it wasn’t those titles...

New Hampshire is known for a lot of things: Mt. Washington, the presidential primary, our slightly alarming motto. And then there’s heliophysics expertise.“I checked and in the last 30 years we have been the lead on at least 22 NASA or NOAA missions”...

The state’s top election official did his best Tuesday to ward off in advance any conspiracy theories about next week’s election, saying that claims about illegal voters or ballot tampering don’t resonate in New Hampshire because of in-person...

From the perspective of a man who oversees getting more than a thousand students to school on time even in bad weather and when drivers call out sick – shifting the location of the middle school from Rundlett to a new school about six miles away...

When faced with a half-ton cow bearing horns that are two feet long, Carole Soule knows what to do: Tell it to lie down.“The thing that I have learned about myself with the farm is that I absolutely love training cattle – to be ridden, to drive, to...

The failure of a piece of electric equipment known as a hot line clamp knocked out power for 1,400 customers in Hopkinton on Tuesday afternoon, including Harold Martin School.The problem occurred around 1 p.m. and was fixed by 2:30 p.m. Students...

If you’re one of those people who loves to brag or complain about how much snow you get – and since this is New Hampshire, of course you are – now’s your chance to one-up everybody else.With one caveat: You have to live close to Concord Municipal...

The projected price tag for the long-discussed expansion of I-93 and I-89 in Concord and Bow has risen to $370 million, almost 50% more than projections made before the pandemic, with the purchase of rights-of-way now slated for 2026 and first major...

In most elections, voters wonder about the candidates. For the county races at the bottom of our ballots, most people wonder about the office.With that uncertainty in mind, the Monitor put together this short primer on the county positions up for...