Bob Clegg is a Hudson contractor who has had a long and varied career in politics, eventually rising to become Republican leader in the state Senate. Today he works as a lobbyist and is founder of the New Hampshire Small…

Doris “Granny D” Haddock, the venerable and quixotic campaigner for public campaign financing burst on the political scene 11 years ago when she walked across the country to gain support for her cause. On Jan. 26, the Dublin, N.H., resident…

John Cronin, who founded the Manchester law firm of Cronin & Bisson in 1991, is the attorney who has filed a class action lawsuit against the state over a change in the interest and dividends tax -- included as an…

Back in the early 1990s, former advertising executive David Random turned a time dilemma question on its head. While working 60 or more hours a week at Dibona, Bornstein, & Random, the successful Boston advertising firm he co-founded, Random also…

Building a personal brand after 50 is something Marva Goldsmith knows well. The 51-year-old, who spent 20 years in the utility industry as an electrical engineer and lobbyist in Washington D.C., reappraised her future after taking a mid-career program and…

Yankee Publishing, the Dublin-based family-owned company that publishes Yankee magazine, the Old Farmer’s Almanac and other publications, celebrates its 75th anniversary this year. For the past decade, Jamie Trowbridge has been at the helm of the company, which was started…

Steve Wells, former member of the local ‘70s band Rush started playing the guitar at age 11, but didn't start cooking until much later on in life. A chain of events that Wells describes as “a natural push in the…

According to the AARP, nearly 7 percent of adults aged 55 and older are unemployed. And with five other people vying for each open position, it’s become clear that looking for a job in today’s marketplace has become very different…

Tom Collachio, president of Hanover-based Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic, and Alyson Pitman Giles, president and chief executive of CMC Healthcare System - parent company of Catholic Medical Center in Manchester - have been busy the last few months promoting an affiliation between…

Antiques experts Leigh and Leslie Keno of the television program, 'Antiques Roadshow' are joined by New Hampshire Home editor Andi Axman at the brothers' recent appearance at The Music Hall of Portsmouth, which was presented by the magazine.For more photos,…

On Dec. 1, the state of New Hampshire set up its first business court docket. If both parties wish, they can now go before the court’s first and only judge, the newly appointed Judge Richard B. McNamara, a former commercial…

Outstanding Women in Business Award winners Leslie Sturgeon of Women Inspiring Women, left, and Deb Titus of Dale Carnegie-New Hampshire, right, are joined by NHBR publisher Sharron McCarthy, second from right, and Amber Anderson. (Photo by Jodie Andruskevich)More photos from…

To say that Mary Heath has held many different positions in education would be quite an understatement. Named dean of the School of Education at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester earlier this year, Heath before that was New Hampshire's…

The economic downturn has brought with it an increase in layoffs and growing uncertainty among workforce managers at many Granite State businesses. Knowing what resources are available and having a strategic workforce plan in place before trouble arises can often…

Portsmouth-based Clean Air-Cool Planet, which finds and promotes solutions to global climate change, recently received a $400,000 grant from the state to help more than two dozen towns develop plans to renovate their most energy-inefficient municipal buildings. CA-CP, which works…