Podcast: Peter Powell, A Life With Community at its Core

Peter Powell has been in the Real Estate business in Lancaster, NH for 50 years now and he’s very well respected and talented at it. But ask him what he lives for and he will begin to spin stories of family, New Hampshire, and his community, both local and in the broader sense – NH and the US – long before he gets to his business career.

What is a Word?

Is “ish” a word?  Until recently it was only a suffix, first attached to national names (“English, Swedish”), then to various nouns (“selfish, childish”), and then to almost any short adjective, meaning “sort of” or “in a way” (“brownish, youngish”). 

Time for Our Grid Operator To Ditch Delaware

What’s more important to New Hampshire: An elite boarding school — or the nonprofit organization that runs all of New England’s high voltage transmission grid, oversees the buying and selling of electricity throughout the six-state region, and keeps our lights on?