If you are considering starting a business, one of your earliest decisions is where to locate. Location will either create opportunities or impose constraints on such concerns as availability of capital, local resources and employees — all potential enablers or…
Financial services giant ING Group has agreed to pay New Hampshire state workers $2.775 million as part of a settlement with the state Hampshire Bureau of Securities Regulation. The settlement also requires ING - which handles $180 million in state…
Return to sender Those politicians sure do like to rail against the media when it’s convenient. And it appears at least some of them think it’s OK to take credit for something the media actually accomplished. The Senate GOP PAC…
Two sides to every aisle To the editor: If air passenger traffic over Manchester and the surround communities of southern New Hampshire is encouraged to grow by 87 percent or 143 percent by 2020 (“87% Manchester air traffic increase seen…
Predatory mortgage lending is prevalent in rural areas, according to a new policy brief from the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire. The report, “Subprime and Predatory Lending in Rural America: Mortgage Lending Practices that Can Trap Low-Income…
On a recent Friday evening, Claire Getz and her husband Michael put a twist on their typical dinner-and-a-movie routine. Tired of the cineplex choices, the couple instead opted to take in the live production of “Smokey Joe’s Café” at the…
Granite State businesses are largely unprepared for the potential labor shortage and loss of knowledge that will take place as the state’s workforce ages, according to Deborah Russell, AARP’s national director of workforce issues. “There’s just simply going to be…
White Mountains Insurance Group plans to sell off about a fifth of its largest subsidiary, OneBeacon Insurance, with an initial public offering of between $24 and $26 per share, the company has revealed in filings with the Security and Exchange…
At D.D. Bean & Sons, a match manufacturing company in Jaffrey, employee Linda Gravel beams as fitness counselor Paul Pillsbury measures her body fat ratio, using a set of digital calipers that look like an electronic parrot head chomping on…
The New Hampshire Technical Institute and the University of New Hampshire have signed a collaborative agreement that will enable students enrolled in NHTI’s associate of science degree nursing program to have a dual-admission option with UNH’s bachelor of science nursing…
