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What was the involvement of Lakes Region Greyhound Park general partner Allan E. Hart in the gambling operation that federal authorities cited in their recent indictment of the track’s general manager and assistant general manager? And was the entire management…

The state of Vermont has decided not to bid on the 13 hydroelectric dams on the Connecticut and Deerfield rivers being sold as part of the bankruptcy proceeding involving electric generating company U.S. Gen-New England. The decision would end more…

No one has told you this yet but you just don’t understand. Don’t worry. It’s perfectly natural. See, you’re not in Concord. I don’t understand either but I know the people who do. The informed people fall into two groups.…

A lot of things ramped up in January. There were obvious changes in Manchester, new leadership at the Business & Industry Association, a new governor with an apparent new work ethic, rumors of gambling and reminders of the importance of…

Beginning with this issue, New Hampshire Business Review will present the New Hampshire Business Review/Chartworth Stock Index, the quarterly and trailing 12 months’ stock performance of New Hampshire-based publicly traded companies. The list of companies has been sorted on the…

The price of that doggy in the window — or at the kennel — may be going up this year. On Jan. 1, the annual licensing fee for retail pet shops went from $50 to $200. The same fee also…

Revelation that the state budget deficit has grown by another $70 million should put businesses around the state on red alert. The additional $70 million - “discovered” late last month due to bungled bookkeeping in the Department of Health and…

Benjamin Franklin is reputed to have written, “Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” This perspective is largely absent from the debate over President Bush’s proposal to reform Social…

Once more, a Base Realignment and Closure Commission round is before us. And, the employees of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Seacoast communities, the bipartisan New Hampshire-Maine-Massachusetts congressional delegation and other friends of the yard are again educating decision-makers at the…

New Hampshire public policy forbids part-time workers from collecting unemployment unless they agree to seek full-time work. For those who need to work part-time, this policy is unbalanced and unfair. Ignoring the reality of part-time workers dates back to when…