According to a recent Associated Press report on rural broadband and regional economic development efforts in northern New England, economic development officials are concerned that rural areas without broadband Internet access are being left behind as governments and companies across…
The Internal Revenue Service is increasingly scrutinizing loans between corporations and shareholders. Many of these loans are undocumented, don’t call for payments, don’t provide for interest and probably won’t ever be repaid. If this happens to be the scenario for…
Nearly all of New Hampshire’s rural hospitals have become certified as critical access hospitals, a designation that could save them as much as 30 percent more in Medicare payments — increased reimbursements that may well mean the difference between life…
The Merrimack Planning Board has voted 5-2 to send to voters a zoning amendment that would allow the development of a controversial premium outlet center in town. Roseland, N.J.-based Chelsea Property Group Inc. has proposed building a 650,000-square-foot, 135-store premium…
Parsing the sentence The only thing missing were the violins playing softly in the background when Allen Raymond, the former Republican consultant, was sentenced to five months in jail for his role in jamming Democratic telephone during New Hampshire’s 2002…
In the early 1990s, after approximately 20 years of avoiding, remanding and hoping that education-funding cases would go away, the Supreme Court issued its famous Claremont I decision, which declared that it was the state’s obligation to provide for an…
Concord resident and former major league pitcher Bob Tewksbury got a standing ovation and an award for his many years of service to the Boys and Girls Clubs of New Hampshire, Red Sox hurlers Bronson Arroyo and Lenny DiNardo were…
For years, conventional wisdom has had it that if either Pease Air Force Base or the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard closed, the world as we know it would end. It didn’t happen when Pease closed, and now, some are predicting that…
Q. I have applied for a commercial loan at a bank in my town, and every time I call the loan officer to inquire about the loan approval status, she keeps asking me for more information. I still have not…
I had the opportunity to participate in a national telephone conference call hosted by economist Jeff Thredgold, who gave a presentation on his views of the U.S. economy for 2005 and 2006. What did Mr. Thredgold have to say? He…
