As the jury in the securities fraud trial of five former Enterasys Networks executives started to discuss the fate of the defendants late Friday afternoon, they heard a final plea from the attorney for Bob Gagalis, the former chief financial…
A number of matters recently reported in the press point out the unique and somewhat ironic nature of New Hampshire’s tax system. Before readers jump on me for advocating a change in the system, that is not the purpose of…
Laurie Ferguson, 51, grew up in Pittsburgh, Pa., but spent much of her childhood and young adulthood in New Hampshire, going to summer camp, college and competitively skiing in the mountains. After graduating and working as a history teacher, she…
More than half a century ago, a father-and-son team from Nashua entered the car business with $200 in cash and two cars parked in a small Main Street lot. Now well known as Peters Auto Center on Amherst Street, that…
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…
