They arrive on Friday at 1 p.m. or sometime thereafter, alone, with families or in small groups of two or three. Removing their shoes, the men gather on the carpet before the lectern, while the women sit behind curtains, unseen…
Less than a year ago, Tom Galligan was sweating in the heat of the South, where he served as dean of the University of Tennessee’s College of Law in Knoxville, Tenn., and before that as law professor at Louisiana State…
The recent political drama created when Steve Vaillancourt of Manchester, a political activist and officeholder who has graced (or disgraced) each of the political parties and the independent designation, accused Raymond Buckley, vice chairman of the state Democratic Party, of…
The three ex-amigos Rudy Giuliani may be the bees knees in New Hampshire and elsewhere, but there’s one place where his presidential campaign is having a little trouble gaining traction: New York. In fact, some big-time Republican pols, namely former…
A year or so ago, inventor David Hallmark was contemplating a business idea but did not have a business plan, psychologist Debi Warner had launched an idea but was carrying too much risk, and Pam Richardson’s tea-tasting business was just…
The newly opened Hampshire First Bank is hoping to make a splash with two new products aimed at its business and individual customers. A state-chartered commercial bank, Hampshire First opened its Nashua branch last December and is set to open…
New research at the University of New Hampshire aims to make hospital operating rooms safer by opening the lines of communication between computerized hospital beds and blood pressure monitors. “We’re trying to get pieces of equipment that don’t normally talk…
Actively promoting wellness to employees is not only good and responsible policy, it’s a good investment that can help reduce health-care costs. Those are among the lessons learned by the University System of New Hampshire, which this year is celebrating…
Finding ways to ensure prompt payment is an age-old issue for businesses. From the earliest records, there has always been the tax collector and the debtor, so know that if you have clients in arrears, you are most assuredly not…
Back when a telephone was still a rare commodity and e-mail had not yet been dreamed of, Manchester residents had a reliable way to get same-day messages across town. They sent post cards. “I have postcards that say ‘I’ll meet…
