Author: NH Business Review Staff

Hospital honored for biofuel initiative

Memorial Hospital in North Conway has been named the Mount Washington Valley Chamber of Commerce’s Sustainable Business of the Year, in recognition of its switch to a new form of renewable biofuel. Memorial uses an advanced cellulosic biofuel known as…

Bernie Sanders ‘is the real thing’

To the editor: Huge crowds are greeting Bernie Sanders. Why is there such widespread enthusiasm? Because Americans on the left and right are fed up with the new status quo: a government owned and controlled by the very richest few.…

The Prologis project

Dacon Corporation, TFMoran, others team up to create 614,000-square-foot distribution center near Manchester airport

Gas proponents make opponents’ points

To the editor: The arguments put forward by Nicoloro and Fontaine in favor the proposed natural gas pipeline only go to support the opponents’ position. (“Opposition to proposed gas pipeline is misguided,” by Mike Nicoloro and Joan Fontaine, April 17-30…

D-H president honored as a ‘great American’

Dr. James Weinstein, president and CEO of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock health system, was among 90 recipients of the 2015 Ellis Island Medal of Honor from the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations. This year’s recipients included talk show host Meredith Vieira, retired…

Let Sprague help manage your energy costs

Sprague, based in Portsmouth, is now offering restaurants and large businesses access to natural gas market expertise and the ability to lock in competitive energy costs for extended periods of time. These programs are ideal for businesses using at least…

11 NH businesses, individuals win 2015 SBA honors

Eleven New Hampshire businesses and individuals have been honored as winners of U.S. Small Business Administration awards in the Granite State. In addition, three of those winners have also been recognized as New England-wide regional SBA award winners. Named 2015…

Entrepreneurship effort is ‘siloed’

To the editor: I was both interested and dismayed to read the April 24 article on NHBR.com, “Live Free and Start seeks to boost New Hampshire’s ‘entrepreneurial ecosystem.’ ” I was interested and pleased to see the emphasis on fostering…

Monadnock Region named a ‘mentor’ community

Institute for Healthcare Improvement has awarded a grant to Cheshire Medical Center-Dartmouth Hitchcock Keene and the Healthy Monadnock program as part of its SCALE (Spreading Community Accelerators through Learning and Evaluation) initiative. Made possible by a $4.8 million grant from…

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Education, Government, Health, News, Politics

NH’s rankings reflect the good and the bad

There are any number of reports, surveys, and rankings that show how well — or how poorly — New Hampshire is doing on a range of issues. Everything from education funding to safety to having a baby to business opportunities to student loan delinquency — it seems everything can be measured in one form or another, often as a yardstick against other states.

Brad Cook Columnist
Cook on Concord, Government, Politics

New Hampshire cannot be ‘controlled’

In a recent ad, a candidate for Congress claimed that “two families have controlled New Hampshire politics for the last several decades,” or something to that effect. That rather curious claim referred to the alleged dominance of New Hampshire politics by the Shaheen and Sununu families. The notion that any family has or could dominate New Hampshire politics has to be dismissed.

Chris Wright
Energy and Environment, Government

In NH, U.S. energy secretary says clean energy is expensive; urges approval of natural gas pipeline

With gasoline near $4 a gallon and healing oil prices expected to jump this winter, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Thursday said clean energy initiatives are partly to blame for high prices of energy. Wright, the founder and former chief-executive of a Denver-based oil-services and fracking company, spoke within eyesight of a small solar array at the Raymond district office of the New Hampshire Electric Co-op.