I did a story a couple years ago about New Hampshire's control center for those signs. They said they would not follow Maine's keep-it-light model, much to my dismay.

We've been working with the feds for a "permanent solution" my entire life and I'm one of those scorned boomers. Don't hold your breath.

Like many people, I wish we had found a way to keep VY and other plants operating, but we can't downplay the complexity of the waste storage issue. The volume isn't much by, say, coal-ash standards but the toxicity is in a league of its own.

Use poles, at least in the beginning. It's surprisingly easy to lose your balance and fall over when wearing snowshoes, even when standing still. Very embarrassing.

No - that's a small gas-fired plant near the statehouse.

This is a long-unused building that held "manufactured gas" made from coal (brought to the site by railcars) since 1888 or so, until fossil gas came in pipelines in the early 1950s.

There's still no long-term plan to save it That will cost Big Bucks. It's not impossible that it could still be torn down, although not likely

The truck didn't crash into it - the driver crashed into it, using a truck.

It's weird how stories about accidents always depict the vehicle as the agent ("car kills pedestrian") as if it wasn't the driver's doing.

if you model each race as a coin flip then it's irrelevant to reality, which is the point I (clumsily) tried to make - it's arithmetically/statistically OK but says nothing whatsoever about how likely it is that the situation will occur in a real election involving real people.

This is the "spherical horse in a vacuum" situation: Reduce the problem's complexities to fit our ability to calculate.

perfectly reasonable - leave it up to the Gods if humans can't decide

this isn't a case where you can "calculate the odds" since it's so dependent on variables of behavior, history, etc. - it's not an arithmetic problem

There are literally hundreds of named hiking trails in New Hampshire - in New England, probably thousands. There's no master list of all of them ranked by some sort of objective measure, partly because different people value difference things.

Don't sweat lists. Hit some likely-sounding trails near you, see what you like (views? varied surroundings? distance? woods/fields/rock scrambling?) and keep going from there.

I have a pellet stove that acts as supplemental heat to (boo, hiss!) fuel oil. Looking into switching to heat pumps.

6% of New Hampshire households rely on wood as a primary source of home heating.

that includes both firewood and pellet stoves or boilers.

according to the state: https://www.energy.nh.gov/energy-information/energy-new-hampshire

The clerk of the NH House recently tweeted that it's possible we'll get a 200-200 split.

That would be ... interesting.

Just FYI: In most (all?) states you can see who voted in any recent election. You cannot see who they voted for, of course.

As others note, its not the shoes but the added grips you attach to them. I suggest having a pain by the front door with the grips (yak trax or whatever) attached, so you don't have to put them on and off. That's what I do.

Speaking as a dad, the internet has ruined my reputation for wisdom and knowledge.

I dogear my own books (not borrowed, obviously) but not to mark my place, just to highlight, almost always in non-fiction.

Dogearing acts as a reminder to Future Me when rereading that there's something on this page which drew the attention of Past Me.

Above and beyond the information on the page, this is a reminder about what things were new or intriguing to Past Me, giving insight to how I have (hopefully) changed over time.

Concord is a nice small city - the downown has gotten a lot livelier. It's 45 min.'s further away from Boston than Nashua but 45 min's closer to skiing.

One thing that's worse than NYC area: There's no public transport to speak of in NH. If you can't walk to someplace, you'll ABD - Always Be Driving.

As the wikipedia article on Mt. Monadnock points out, there was never any actual evidence for this claim; it was a guess, probably boosted by state tourism folks. After all, it's not like there's accurate data on number of annual climbers for every popular small mountain in the world!

But Monadnock can be wicked crowded on a nice weekend, that's for sure.

As a fallback, see if there's a makerplace around you with a metal shop - they often teach welding. But these schools sound much more likely.

This is the only study of political lawn signs I have ever seen. It found a 1.7% increase for candidates with lots of signs. Not much of an effect on voters.

However, lots of sign may draw donations and spur volunteers by making it seem the candidate is popular. That can't be discounted.

https://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/campaign-lawn-signs-little-effect-217166