The New Hampshire House overwhelming voted for a bill Tuesday that would force pharmacy companies to offer discount drugs to the uninsured or they will be taken off the Medicaid’s preferred drug list. House Bill 628 would establish a program…
The Securities and Exchange Commission estimates it will take 15 days to try six former executives of Riverstone Networks on charges of securities fraud, and it will need nearly three years to prepare for that trial - if it ever…
iCAD finished the final quarter of 2006 with sales up 5 percent from 2005. The company reported $6.4 million in sales -- $300,000, or 5 percent, more than the $6.1 million in sales it reported at the same time in…
White Mountains Insurance Group has further reinforced the old New Hampshire nexus by appointing company veteran Allan Waters as chief executive officer of its reinsurance subsidiary, White Mountain Re, the company announced Tuesday. Waters is the Hanover neighbor of Ray…
After almost 15 years at the helm of the Belknap County Economic Development Council, Executive Director Eliza Leadbeater has announced that she will be stepping down from the post. Her retirement was announced Monday by Greg Dickinson, chairman of the…
Thermo Fisher Scientific will pay its five top executives a total of more than $3 million in 2007 and award them some well over $4 million in bonuses for 2006. The company announced on Friday that Chief Executive Officer Marijn…
Jeffrey Cook, the man hired last week as Presstek’s new chief financial officer, will be earning $275,000 plus an annual bonus of slightly less than $150,000 for 2007, and has been awarded some 250,000 shares worth of stock options, according…
To the editor: In 1987 my grandmother lost a painful two-year-long fight with lung cancer. Despite giving up half a lung, the disease ended her life prematurely. She had smoked for just one year of her life, at age 16.…
On Feb. 13, David Walker, the comptroller general of the United States and head of the General Accountability Office — the government’s official watchdog when it comes to wasteful spending — stopped at the Capitol Center of the Arts in…
When Gov. John Lynch delivered his budget address to the New Hampshire Legislature Feb. 15, he presented more than just numbers. The budget says a lot about his policies, priorities and vision for New Hampshire. Lynch proposed raising the tobacco…
