Alex Ray’s 13 New Hampshire restaurants and diners include five Common Man restaurants, following the success of the first one he started in 1971 in Ashland. A new Common Man in Claremont is now under construction. At 61, the New…
Not many small New Hampshire businesses go from start-up to $500,000 in sales in less than a year, but Namtek Corp. has done just that — by focusing on the federal government as its primary customer. Bedford-based Namtek was founded…
New Hampshire has become the magnet in New England for short-term high-interest lenders, and state lawmakers are becoming increasingly uneasy about it. Since the Legislature eliminated interest-rate caps in 1999, some 42 payday and title loan lenders have sprung up…
ExxonMobil: not a good corporate citizen To the editor: For several years now, those involved in the climate change arena have known about a massive disinformation campaign being waged by ExxonMobil as they try to obfuscate the issue in order…
The jury, of course, is still out on whether Democrats can do any better than Republicans at governing New Hampshire. But one way of measuring their success will be to see whether they choose to stay with the business-as-usual status…
The New Hampshire Hospital Association has developed a program designed to help patients who fall into the expensive gap of earning too much money to qualify for public assistance yet have no health coverage. Twenty-four of the state’s 26 acute-care…
If this season’s lack of snow and balmy temperatures has kept you from hitting the slopes, a trip to the New England Ski Museum in Franconia may be just what you’re looking for. Located next door to the Cannon Mountain…
Mount Sunapee Resort will be the sight of New Hampshire’s 2007 Peak Pitch, an annual networking initiative designed to give local entrepreneurs the opportunity to sell their business ideas to venture capitalists, angel investors and other startup advisors. Scheduled for…
Most people do what makes sense to themselves, regardless of the impact on others. When one person’s behavior is not understood and/or accepted by the other person, conflict ensues. The conflict can be overt or covert. If this conflict is…
Cigna HealthCare will soon begin offering health savings accounts through JPMorgan Chase to New Hampshire employers with fewer than 50 employees. Cigna said it is offering the expanded availability for HSA qualified plans that took effect on or after Jan.…
