During the closing weeks of 2006, four good men, drawn from very diverse backgrounds, passed away. Their level of fame varied, but the things they had in common struck me as I thought about their lives. First and most famous,…
Using the Common Man for common good To the editor: It is not hard to understand why Alex Ray, owner of the Common Man family of restaurants, is celebrating 35 years of success. If one defines success as I do…
A supervisor berates a food service worker for making a peanut butter sandwich incorrectly. The same supervisor treats the employee gruffly for several days, ignores her altogether, then gives her a substandard performance appraisal. Are these actions sufficient to substantiate…
Americans are living longer these days. I recently heard on the radio that the oldest person in America had just passed away at age 116. As baby boomers, we’re experiencing a new phenomenon that will last many generations to come:…
In October, I served as host to Neal Peirce, a syndicated columnist with the Washington Post Writers Group. Neal is affiliated with Citistates Group. He and Curtis Johnson spent three years working on the New England Futures Project. They spent…
Scotland’s “water of life,” better known to most of us as scotch whisky, isn’t nearly as difficult or complicated to enjoy as one would think, as 20 tasters found out at the most recent Top Shelf Tasting, held Dec. 20…
Before they walk through your door, they click through your Web site — really! It’s a fast-paced, high-tech world we work in, and it’s vital for businesses to have an informative, easy-to-navigate site that allows visitors to quickly find what…
One of the major changes New Hampshire’s adoption earlier this year of the Trust Modernization and Competitiveness Act of 2006 trust laws brings to the state’s trust law is the creation of a new group of trust companies called family…
After falling 2.9 percent in September, exports from New Hampshire companies declined another 4 percent in October - a $9.7 million monthly fall in foreign shipments that brought total exports to $234.4 million in October. But, compared with last year,…
If you’re like the over 128,500 home-based businesses incubating in New Hampshire, you may be eligible for tax deductions on a portion of your everyday living expenses. But a word of caution: the Internal Revenue Service is paying very close…
