Joan Robinson wishes she could bring everyone she knows, and even those she doesn’t know, with her to Africa. “I wish I could expose everyone to it,” she said. Robinson, of Hollis, has been to the continent 22 times and…
Every year, New Hampshire’s roads absorb over 13 billion vehicle miles. By any standard, that’s a lot of use, and it underscores just how much our lives depend on our infrastructure. Yet, due to a worsening shortfall in funding, our…
If a flu pandemic were to hit New Hampshire, a recession could follow in its wake, but the impact would be less severe than in many other states, says a new study on the economic effects of a global outbreak…
Just a little over two years ago, Ed Williams and Francis Mackay-Smith were running an online listing service that today remains under investigation by the New Hampshire Real Estate Commission for allegedly acting as a real estate broker without a…
I spent a very enjoyable two hours recently with a quasi leads group headed up by Diane Mercier, senior vice president of Ocean National Bank. We had a banker, financial adviser, CPA, insurance guy, M & A lawyer, an appraiser…
Income inequality in New England is rising at the highest rate in the nation, according to a brief from the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire. The brief found that, between 1989 and 2004, the region experienced the…
The angel investor market experienced steady growth in 2006, with total investments of $25.6 billion, an increase of 10.8 percent over 2005, according to the 2006 Angel Market Analysis released last month by the Center for Venture Research at the…
The student loan kickback scandal that has touched financial aid offices at some of the nation’s largest institutions of higher learning likely won’t affect New Hampshire, primarily because the state is home to a nonprofit organization that handles most financial…
An old stagecoach route, Chesterfield Road in Keene is still a long narrow drive full of twists and bumps this time of the year. But a short mile from the turnoff of Route 9 travelers are delivered to a taste…
Darn varmints While Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, current Republican presidential wannabe and self-described great white hunter, has many qualities to commend him, humility - or at the least self-awareness - isn’t one of them. Neither, apparently, is…
