Author: NH Business Review Staff

People and Property

Grant gives boost to public housing in Portsmouth, Hancock Meetinghouse project, ConEst honored … and more

Logo firms up N.H. as tax-free shopping haven

The New Hampshire Retail Association is asking retailers and other businesses to use a new logo emphasizing the state's tax-free shopping, "365 Days A Year." The shopping bag-shaped logo, which is available in black-and-white and color formats, is being sent…

Rights or self-interest?

To the editor: The stakeholders in the human rights industry are: 1. The lawyers who profit from it so predictably that plaintiff cases are uniformly accepted on contingency. 2. The lobbyists who support it. 3. The regulatory bodies whose employees,…

Why not disclosure for nonprofits?

From the Feb. 7-20 issue of NHBR, the article, “Disclosure for corporations, why not politics?” was a good one, but why not take it a step further and expand it to “Why not nonprofits?” Isn’t it time that the donors…

The unconstitutional malpractice panels

To the editor: I enjoy your articles in NHBR almost as much as I do the “Flotsam and Jetsam” page. In particular, you somehow got your arms around the problems with the medical malpractice screening panels (“Questions swirl around effectiveness…

Worker co-ops: Like ESOPs, but better

Unlike an ESOP, which merely makes present employees future beneficiaries, a worker co-op is democratically controlled by current employees on a one-person-one vote basis