Marla: In a wealthy, technologically-advanced society such as ours, one of the goals of our Legislature should be to provide health-care coverage to as many citizens of New Hampshire as possible. The number of people who go without health-care coverage…
While many employers have written employment policies covering employee use of company computers, e-mail and the Internet, many do not have policies covering employee blogging. Given the emergence and increasing popularity of blogging, employers should consider written policies on blogging…
A friend of mine sent me an article by Time magazine columnist Michael Kinsley that ran on the op-ed page of The New York Times. Consider that Daimler-Benz paid more than $30 billion for Chrysler and is now selling 80…
The expansion project currently under way at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester is on budget and on schedule to reopen in April 2008, according to museum officials. Still 10 months away from opening, the $21.4 million expansion is…
A cost-cutting measure proposed in April by the federal Medicare Payment Advisory Commission could mean that as many as 4,000 New Hampshire beneficiaries could lose their Medicare Advantage supplemental coverage. The proposal, which proponents say is designed to improve efficiency…
As it has for much of the last decade, New Hampshire is expected to set the economic pace among New England states over the next several years. According to the latest forecast put together by Ross Gittell, a professor at…
We live in a smaller world in which the pace of business moves faster than ever. The global impact of the economy now reaches us at all levels, no matter whether companies are doing business internationally, across the United States,…
Community Bank and Trust shareholders will get a little extra this quarter, thanks to its planned merger into Ocean National Bank, a Portsmouth-based subsidiary of Chittenden Corp. in Vermont, the company announced on Wednesday. The Wolfeboro-based bank said it will…
The board of directors of New Hampshire Thrift Bancshares Inc., parent company of Lake Sunapee Bank, has authorized a stock repurchase plan allowing the company to repurchase up to 5 percent (253,776 shares) of its common stock outstanding as of…
Note: This is the first in a series of inside stories detailing actual venture capital transactions. Dates, numbers and other details have been changed to protect the private nature of the information. A few years back, our fund closed an…
