The recent and brief administration of Gov. Craig Benson calls to mind Harry Truman’s explanation of why he considered General Douglas MacArthur “worse than the Cabots and the Lodges—they at least talk to each other before they tell God what…
We’ve got a brand new year and a brand new governor, and education is looming as a subject slated for attention ... again. Unfortunately, while education is a subject worthy of continual attention, our interest seems to concentrate only on…
In Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” Ebenezer Scrooge was visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Future. The ghost of Christmas Future was the most frightening of the three. “It was shrouded in a deep black…
The following is the text of a citizen’s letter mailed to the White House on Christmas Eve. Dear Mr. President: I am writing this on December 24th, as I am finally in “the spirit of the season.” So if it…
While technological improvements and quality enhancements provide an advantage in selling goods abroad, export success is still determined by how much money foreign buyers have and how weak the dollar is against the buyers’ national currency. New Hampshire exporters have…
There is no question that traffic has increased in New Hampshire. More people mean more cars because north of Metro Boston there are few public transit alternatives. Concord CAT carried 100,000 riders last year, and Advance Transit in the Upper…
Editor’s Note: “Commercial Notes,” a new monthly column written by David Eaton, president of Manchester-based Eaton Partners Inc., provides answers to reader questions related to commercial real estate financing. Questions can be submitted to him at Commercialnotes@eatonpartners.com. Q. I want…
In January, those winds off the Merrimack River seem especially frosty while slogging to and fro from the Top Shelf offices. By the time we get home, we’re all so frozen we can barely scan the latest Robb Report for…
If you shopped for any Cartier, Estée Lauder, Gucci or Chanel gift items this past holiday season, you probably brought home a little bit of Mirror Lake, N.H., as well. These high-end retailers join other internationally known brand names -…
Rafael Calderon, a job developer with the Jac Pac Worker Assistance Program in Manchester, recalls finding on-the-job training for displaced Jac Pac workers a few months ago with a Manchester company called The Way Home. “They hired four of our…
