Joseph Broyles is the Energy Program Manager for the New Hampshire Office for Energy Planning. Among his many duties is to watch the energy market in the state, making sure that the state has enough energy during all the seasons, though he has no enforcement powers. The OEP is part of the Executive Department within the governor’s office. Broyles recently attended a conference in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, that looked at the winter ahead

Arizona senator and Republican presidential hopeful John McCain is often called a maverick from his years in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. On Oct. 13, McCain, 71, took time out to answer some questions after speaking at the Clean Air Cool Planet conference on global warming and energy solutions in Manchester.

David Lamb is a founding member of the New Hampshire Furniture Masters, which formed in 1993 to continue New Hampshire’s legacy of fine furniture making and raise awareness of the craft in their own state. Lamb’s work is commissioned by celebrities and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.

This is your chance to get your hands on produce from one of the region’s top restaurant produce suppliers.

With the Patriots undefeated, the Sox possibly on their way to the World Series, the, ahem new Big Three to debut at the new Garden and number-two-in-some-polls Boston College possibly headed to the BCS Championship game, enthusiasm in these parts is running high, to say the least. That has people asking questions, so let’s go to the mail bag and see what’s on their mind.

It’s time.

As of this week — due to no particular benchmark or anniversary, just because I say so — the Internet is no longer that newfangled thing, that mysterious invention that only the nerdiest of nerds really understand or even know about. Nope — it’s mainstream, regular, mundane even. Every business worth its salt has a Web address somewhere in its print ads.

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