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The Business and Industry Association of New Hampshire has thrown its support behind Governor Lynch’s proposed education-funding constitutional amendment Saying it believes the amendment - CACR 18 -- is the best way to support quality education, enable the state to…

International development expert Jonathan Dolan will present a program entitled, “Microlending and Macro-Vision: Working Small for Big Change,” at Rivier College in Nashua. Dolan will discuss his work with the Small Enterprise Education and Promotion Network, or SEEP, an international…

Paul Meister, chairman of Thermo Fisher Scientific, will not stand for re-election at the company’s May 15 annual meeting, the firm announced late Tuesday. The terms of Meister’s retirement package has not yet been released, but if the one in…

Pennichuck Corporation compensated its top executives a total of more than $1 million in 2006, including a total of $350,000 to the three people who served as chief executive officer during the period, according to a filing last week with…

Enrique “Henry” Fiallo, former chief executive officer of Enterasys Networks, will have to wait another three months before he finds out how much time he will serve for securities fraud. Fiallo’s sentencing, and that of three other former Enterasys executives…

iCAD, the Nashua-based developer of computer-aided cancer screening systems, has spoken out against a recent article published in the New England Journal of Medicine that cast doubts on the technology’s effectiveness. The researchers of the journal article “Influence of Computer-Aided…

Tom Donohue, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce will address New Hampshire business leaders in May at a Manchester breakfast. The May 2 event, presented in cooperation with the Greater Concord, Greater Laconia-Weirs Beach, Greater Portsmouth and Wolfeboro Area…

In an attempt to capitalize on legislation passed last year that cut in half the state premium tax paid by most insurance companies, two business recruiters from the New Hampshire Business Resource Center will be traveling to New Orleans at…

The state Senate Thursday approved a controversial bill that would require that employee health insurance for families cover all dependents 25 and under. The Senate also passed another measure that would require it to fully cover midwifery services. Over Republican…

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…