A bill that would exempt foods produced and sold in New Hampshire from federal food safety regulations is running into opposition from some of the very groups the bill says it would help.A hearing on House Bill 1650 is scheduled…
On one side are businesses, insurance companies, health care providers and the state Insurance Department. On the other are House leadership, conservative senators and a think tank. All of them mingled in a crowded House Commerce Committee meeting to testify…
A deadlocked New Hampshire Senate did not approve a bill Tuesday that would eliminate a workers' compensation fund for the disabled, despite the recommendation of its commerce committee to do so.The fund involved is known as the "second injury" fund,…
Sturm, Ruger & Co. Inc. issued a quarterly report of sorts last week on how the company is doing in reaching its goal of selling a million guns during its fiscal year - and in giving $1 from each sale…
The new owners of the Balsams Grand Resort Hotel have hired a North Country economic development organization to find ways to finance its long-overdue renovation.The nonprofit Northern Community Investment Corp., which serves northern New Hampshire and Vermont, will develop a…
A bill that would limit credit and debit card fees has New Hampshire retailers and banks going head to head.The fee in question -- the interchange fee -- is the amount that a credit card user's bank charges the retailer's…
A bill that would have required New Hampshire retailers to give a refund for returned items looks like it will morph into a return policy disclosure bill, if Tuesday's House Commerce Committee hearing is any indication.Sponsor Michele Peckham, R-North Hampton,…
Few people care that the New Hampshire Legislature is rewriting laws governing corporations and limited liability companies, but they should, said supporters Tuesday at a sparsely attended press conference in Concord.The current law in New Hampshire, one of the few…
TD Charitable Foundation, the charitable arm of TD Bank, has awarded $100,000 to the Laconia Area Community Land Trust for its Lochmere Meadows Renewable Energy Project, which will be used to install renewable energy systems at the 28-unit affordable housing…
Shelley Bruin, left, manager of Friends of the Manchester Animal Shelter, accepts a $2,529 donation from Claudia Rippee and Ed Aloise, owners of Republic Café, who also donated more than $2,400 to the Greater Manchester YMCA. Each year, the restaurant…
Representatives from the Ted Williams Foundation, Children's Hospital at Dartmouth, and the Fisher Cats Foundation accept a check representing the $155,680 raised for the three organizations at the 2011 Granite State Baseball Dinner, which was presented by Northeast Delta Dental.
Lynn Gelinas, vice president of government banking at Citizens Bank, helps Gov. John Lynch distribute food at the New Hampshire Food Bank's Mobile Food Pantry event in Manchester. The Citizens Bank Foundation provided a $50,000 grant to the food bank…
Lisa Christie, center, executive director of the Nashua Soup Kitchen, and Norma, right, a longtime soup kitchen volunteer, accept a $10,000 grant from Jim Tollner, director of account management at Harvard Pilgrim, on behalf of the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care…
Ann Peters, CEO of Lamprey Health Care, presents an award of appreciation to Ken Holmes, left, president of North Branch Construction, project manager Eric Hastings and project superintendent Julianne Cardinal, in honor of North Branch's work building the new Lamprey…
St. Mary's Bank has donated $15,000 to the YMCA of Greater Londonderry in support of its capital campaign to build the town's first outdoor community swimming pool and a state-of-the-art recreation facility. From left, Tom Champagne, the credit union's director…
Developers and supporters gather at an open house to celebrate the opening of Families in Transition's newest housing development in Manchester, which will provide 12 units of permanent, supportive housing for formerly homeless individuals with disabilities and their families.
New Hampshire Businesses for Social Responsibility held a roundtable discussion at Monadnock Paper Mills in Bennington to discuss ways New Hampshire businesses and organizations can benefit from the Environmental Protection Agency's environmental initiatives. Pictured, from left, are Michelle Veasey, executive…
"No requirement" could be the theme of the legislation that may emerge from this year's libertarian-tinged legislative session, at least as far as business is concerned.As the New Hampshire Legislature looks past the budget to focus on regulations in the…
For many businesses, the past three years have been a time of cutting back, laying off and hanging on. But for Mainstay Technologies, it has been a very different kind of ride.Ryan Barton, who started Mainstay seven years ago as…
As a longtime ad executive and head of Quaker City Mercantile, Steve Grasse doesn't just market brands; he creates them. Hendrick's Gin? That was his brainchild, as was Sailor Jerry rum, launched after he purchased the estate of the influential…
This time of year has always represented a period of new starts and, in reality, getting to things that had to be put off in the stressful year-end months of November and December.Included in this are all those resolutions to…
For the past decade or so, nanotechnology - the study of manipulating matter at an atomic and molecular scale -- has been promoted (hyped) as the next industrial revolution. "Nanotechnology for Dummies" (Wiley Publishing) in 2005 described a future that…
With 6 billion text messages sent daily in the United States, texting has seemingly become a national pastime. This is evident to any casual observer in a public place, where most people can be seen texting while walking, shopping, and…
Remember the dot-com era? We were made to feel like dinosaurs unless we were part of a dot-com business. They claimed it was a new business model that rewrote the rules.Most of them weren't making any money. The new model…
Deciphering the collective psyche of investors in the current economic climate is a challenge, to say the least. There are no easy answers -- only many complicated questions.To some, including the growing leagues of protesters, such as Occupy Wall Street,…
Split personalitiesPerhaps medication would be able to take care of the mood swings displayed by the New Hampshire House of Representatives.As a body, under the subjugation of Republicans and through its leadership, the House has repeatedly professed the desire to…
Here in the North Country, where the ravages of this poor economy are most evident, a higher percentage of people with developmental disabilities are employed than anywhere else in the state. I learned this statistic recently at a breakfast hosted…
New Year's resolutions generally conjure up good intentions to lose weight and reorganize our homes or office desk.But for millions of Americans, this year's resolutions are more urgent. To find a job. To keep a job they already have. To…
Grant Bosse of the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy neglects to discuss the benefits of the program as they affect small businesses and jobs in New Hampshire.Bosse suggests that the RGGI program includes reen energy boondoggles -- that is…
If the people running New Hampshire's RGGI program were running a business in the private sector, they'd either be fired, under criminal investigation or both. Of course, they're not. And in the world of government, they haven't done anything wrong.They've…
On Jan. 2, 1987, culminating years of legislative deliberations, a new environmental agency was created: the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services. So this year, 2012, marks the 25th anniversary of the creation of DES and its service to the…
Should a Manchester condominium be the only high-rise in New Hampshire without a sprinkler system? Or should the residents -- who have been fighting installation of the system for years -- be required to shell out about $15,000 apiece to…
This column is being written in the middle of what may best be dubbed, "Political Junkie Week in New Hampshire," or, "New Hampshire's Political Disneyland Vacation."This year, as everyone knows, Mitt Romney defeated Rick Santorum by eight "votes" in the…
Strategies for securing business financing, tips for how to do business with the state and a look at this year's top policy issues as seen by the state's top legislators will be on the agenda of the Business and Industry…
While presidential candidates were crossing New Hampshire on Tuesday getting in their last points about health care, the Senate Commerce Committee was acting on three major pieces of health-related legislation. Without a word of debate, the Senate unanimously voted to…
As the New Hampshire House of Representatives on Wednesday hotly debated dozens of retained bills from last year -- everything from bringing back short-term loans to allowing guns on campus -- a number of measures won quiet approval. All of…
Would you like the chance to buy your health insurance out of state? Well the Senate Commerce Committee recommended earlier this week to kill a bill that would allow you to do so. But with only a 3-2 vote in…
There were 20 percent more foreclosures in New Hampshire in November 2011 than there were in the same month the previous year, but that comparison may be misleading since many lenders had halted foreclosure proceedings in November 2010.In November 2011,…
Due to state budget cuts, the University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension has nearly two dozen fewer employees than it had six months ago and is in the process of reorganizing so it can continue offering its programs statewide. And…
Since it was launched this summer, the New Hampshire Farm to Restaurant Connection's Certified Local program -- which gives bragging rights to restaurants in the state that serve local food on their menus -- has only received a few applications.…
For 4,747 New Hampshire households and businesses, 2011 was a financial disaster, a year in which they were forced to file for bankruptcy. However, that's 760 fewer -- or 13.8 percent - than those that filed in 2010.It was the…
Despite what they're saying on the campaign trail about where the U.S. economy is going, the New Hampshire economy seems to be headed in the right direction. The question, however, is how long is it going to take to finally…
Smoked hams, bacon smoked over fruit chips, wieners with actual meat from parts of the pig that people have heard of -- these are some of North Country Smokehouse's specialties. But it's what makes the company different that makes it…
NHBR is now accepting nominations for the 2012 Financial Executive of the Year Awards, which honor New Hampshire's top financial officers and executives for their outstanding fiscal leadership and contributions to the success of their companies.Presented in partnership with KBW…
The Prescription Center, an independent, full-service pharmacy in Concord, has been honored as an Outstanding Corporation by the Northern New England chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals and the Council on Fundraising. Pictured left to right are Angel Matthews,…
Holy Rosary Credit Union has closed its first home loan in conjunction with The Housing Partnership, a Portsmouth affordable housing developer, which is rehabilitating five properties for first-time homebuyers using federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program funds from the city of Rochester.…
Maureen Beauregard, president of Families in Transition, accepts a check from Dick Anagnost, president of Anagnost Investments, which -- through the New Hampshire Community Development Finance Authority tax credit program -- has donated more than $36,500 towards the expansion of…
Rick Brenner, left, president of the New Hampshire Fisher Cats, and Joseph Reilly, president of Centrix Bank, hold a check representing the $112,196 raised for charitable organizations in 2011 through the Centrix Bank Community Outing Fundraising Program, which lets local…
Dianne Mercier, New Hampshire president of People's United Bank, presents Lawrence Yerdon, president of the Strawbery Banke Museum, with a $5,000 check on behalf of the People's United Community Foundation, the bank's philanthropic arm. The grant will support History Within…
Harriman, a full-service architectural and engineering design firm, has won a 2011 Building New Hampshire Award for its design of the Idlehurst Elementary School in Somersworth, which includes sustainable design features that it estimates will save the school $29,000 annually.…
United Therapeutics found the Millyard the perfect setting to help meet its core mission: that no one should ever die waiting for an organ. EwingCole principal Michael Ramus shared the company’s decision to open a corporate research and development facility…
The regional player in the aluminum beverage can industry has big plans for expansion to other parts of the United States
Manchester inventor Dean Kamen announced on Friday the culmination of his effort to transform greater Manchester into a hub for regenerative medicine – millyard space dedicated to the actual manufacture of cell-based body repair products and, eventually, body parts.
Five home-grown innovations — including two medical systems, workforce software, a parts ID marker for manufacturing and a video tracker for ski racers — are vying for the 2025 Product of the Year from the NH Tech Alliance.
Albany International develops and manufactures components using advanced materials for the paper and aerospace industries. Its two main businesses are Machine Clothing, which produces custom belts for paper production, and Albany Engineered Composites, which supplies advanced composite parts for the aerospace industry.
Despite a shift in policy, New Hampshire officials expect 100% of the households and businesses in the state will have access to broadband internet by 2026.
Rajesh Nair is on a global mission to inspire students to experience the same joy he did as a youth in India when he learned how to build a simple crystal radio.
For 37 years, this award has been presented to innovative individuals in New Hampshire’s tech industry based on criteria such as risk, innovation, growth, competition, profitability and employment.
ePropelled earns DoD supply chain certification, boosting U.S. drone dominance
