If your Medicare Part D premiums are automatically taken out of your Social Security check, you just might want to double-check that deduction. A glitch in transferring funds from Social Security to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the…
Businesses need to remember terrorism threat To the editor: I want to commend New Hampshire Business Review for its detailed Emergency Preparedness Guide in the Nov. 24-7 issue. I am struck that the coverage focused mainly on pandemics and natural…
A mighty wind Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the U.S. House and current professional blowhard, paid what could only be described as an incongruous visit to New Hampshire last month. Gingrich, keynote speaker at the Union Leader’s Nackey S.…
I spent one Monday last month at a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency brownfields conference at the impressive new Convention and Exhibition Center on Summer Street in Boston. What exactly is a brownfields site? It is a real property, the reuse…
If modern medicine offered a single prescription to reduce stress, relieve headaches, boost immune systems, lower cholesterol and improve circulation, concentration and productivity, pharmacies would be overrun. While no magic pill yet exists, there is one holistic, natural practice known…
Decision calls into question whether the rules were actually established Saying the matter requires further study, the New Hampshire Supreme Court has overturned a decision by the state Department of Health and Human Services that denied Medicaid for a mentally…
The acquisition of Keene-based Markem Corporation by Dover Corporation is complete, according to a statement released today by officials of the New York-based company. According to the statement, Markem, whose product identification systems are sold around the world, will report…
Gains in productivity are the driving force behind the lowering of costs and prices. In a global competitive environment, a reduction in the costs of production translates to an expansion of sales abroad and improves competitive advantages at home in…
Surfing the Web is something most of us take for granted. We use the Web to perform many daily, routine tasks, such as reading the newspaper, checking stock prices, even shopping. It’s convenient. We don’t have to go out in…
Ask any developer or municipal official to identify the source of delay and frustration with completing an important development project, and the issue of wetlands permits will be near the top of the list. Lengthy permitting procedures, complex regulations and…
