A $6.6 million revolving fund that provides low-interest loans and grants to New Hampshire businesses and nonprofits to finance energy improvements has completed its first round of lending.In partnership with the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund, the Community Development Finance…
Mascoma Corp., a Lebanon-based maker of cellulosic biofuels, has signed a letter of intent worth up to $50 million with Texas-based Valero Energy Corp., the country's largest independent oil refiner, to build a wood-based biofuel refinery in Michigan.Valero also has…
In New Hampshire, Slow Money is still in the developmental stage, focusing on getting the word out and rallying investors interested in local food enterprises
Manchester-based Dynamic Network Services has acquired e-mail delivery provider SendLabs, also of Manchester. According to Dyn Inc., a global provider of Web hosting services, strong customer demand for outbound e-mail delivery solutions prompted the acquisition. "Deliverability is a major issue,…
Will families be able to cherry-pick their own sick kid into the individual market to avoid having to go into the assigned risk pool for group health coverage? The insurance industry is concerned that they can and hopes that House…
A Senate committee will hold hearings Thursday on three bills aimed at clarifying the state's wetlands and shoreline protection laws and making it a bit easier for the construction industry. One -- Senate Bill 19 -- would alter the definition…
The public will be able to weigh in on Thursday at a hearing on House Bill 26, which would repeal the so-called "right to steal" law that was passed last year without a peep, but became a big campaign issue…
A national education policy and research group has given New Hampshire a grade of C for its educational performance and supporting measures. In its "2011 Quality Counts" report, Editorial Projects in Education, based in Bethesda, Md., rated Granite State at…
Dr. Mark Edelstein, president of Lakes Region Community College in Laconia, has announced plans to retire in July from the post he has held since 2006.During his tenure at LRCC, enrollment at the college has grown by 35 percent, and…
New Hampshire has taken one more step toward efforts to connect health-care providers in cyberspace.The state Department of Health and Human Services has received approval from the federal government of its Health Information Exchange Strategic and Operational Plans for the…
