Many industries in New Hampshire are ”below the radar.” They’re businesses that for one reason or another are not very visible or are hard to reduce to mere statistics. One of them is the general aviation business. A general aviation…
• You’ve to have some sympathy for Kelly Ayotte. She quit her post as the governor’s legal counsel last year only a few of months after taking the job to become deputy attorney general. Now she’s back to working as…
Fending off any attempt to criticize Governor Benson for his relationship with the wannabe settlers of the Free State Project, the governor wanted to make it clear the other day that while he’s glad to help them build their bandwagon,…
Early summer is the time for Red Sox slumps, beach novels and political storytelling. Considering that F&J covers neither sports nor literary accomplishments, here are two of the summer’s best-selling New Hampshire political rumors so far. 1. After winning in…
At its much-publicized 2004 Liberty Dinner last month, the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance -- a group that describes itself as a “non-partisan coalition” that supports “increased individual in New Hampshire” - didn’t only hear from Governor Benson and Jason Sorens,…
We now know the extent of U.S. Sen. Judd Gregg’s legendary sense of humor. He doesn’t like Jane Fonda jokes. During a visit to Dartmouth College, the senator was given of a computer science lab to see the latest developments…
Richard Brothers, a 45-year-old Campton resident who’s described as a “part-time health care adviser” to Governor Benson, has decided that he wants to give it another shot in trying to retire his fellow Republican, Sen. Carl Johnson of Meredith. Brothers,…
When you think of the White Mountains, chances are you see yourself schussing down a Double Black diamond run making tracks in the powder. But the area has just as much - maybe even more -- to offer by way…
If I was the conspiracy-minded sort, I’d swear that Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds sneak into their underground labs at night to whip up Web viruses. Those lords of the open-source software movement -- Stallman over the border in Cambridge,…
In the fields of health and human services, there is no more critical workforce issue than the serious shortage of nurses, a shortage that will worsen as the baby boom generation ages and retires. In recent years, the University of…
