Continuing ramifications of actions taken or not taken by state government highlighted the coming of July. On the school-funding front, actions taken by the Legislature in secretly negotiating and then passing a completely new school-funding plan resulted in a lawsuit…
We have been critical here before about the way the governor and Executive Council conduct their business -- or, rather, our business. It’s possible, we realize, that the councilors show more curiosity when discussing issues in private than they do…
Outsourcing is either the smartest business practice since the development of the assembly line, allowing companies to shave double-digit percentage points off their bottom lines, or the most repugnant, directly responsible for exporting good-paying U.S. jobs overseas. “Outsourcing is the…
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Hampshire has announced that it’s going back to the drawing board to help build a tiered health-care product with some of the state’s largest purchasers of health insurance. “This cause is so worthy,…
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,…
The town of Derry has removed its new on-line motor vehicle registration program from its Web site in the wake of a warning issued by state officials. The program was shut down on June 28 after a representative from the…
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…
One of the most important issues facing companies throughout New Hampshire and the United States is energy efficiency, and since 1999 the New Hampshire Office of Energy and Planning has been working with companies to improve their energyefficiency efforts through…
In Maureen Bacon v. Town of Enfield - a case decided Jan. 30 — the special concurrence of Justice Duggan, with whom Justice Dalianas joined, articulated a proposed analysis of the “unnecessary hardship” standard in an effort to provide guidance…
What is Brascan and why is it buying up all of these utility assets? You may remember that in addition to owning a 43 percent share in Nexfor, and thus the pulp and paper mills in northern New Hampshire, Brascan…
