Massachusetts companies may dominate Deloitte & Touche’s list of the 50 fastest-growing technology firms in New England, but three New Hampshire companies are on the list as well. Nashua’s iCAD placed 42nd on the “Fast 50,” growing at 315 percent…
Senator John Sununu has lent his voice to the call for consideration of the Women’s Small Business Ownership Programs Act of 2006 in the Senate’s current session. In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., Sununu said “it…
The Women, Infants and Children Program, or WIC, in New Hampshire has been awarded a $340,000 special projects grant by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The three-year grant will fund a FitWIC Project focusing on reducing obesity and increasing physical…
• New Hampshire Symphony Orchestra (669-3559, nhso.org, from $20): Spanning centuries and musical styles, the NHSO plays everything from Bach to Billy Joel this season in venues around the state. “Billy Joel Symphonic Fantasies for Piano and Orchestra” (Sept. 29-Oct.…
While it has not been a dynamic summer weather-wise, it has been a good one for summer reading. I reached back to 1991 and pulled up a copy of Joel Garreau’s “Edge City,” a classic work on suburbanization and development…
At 71 percent, New Hampshire has the highest labor force participation and the second-lowest unemployment and underemployment rates in New England, but recent trends in employment and wages point to growing disparities in the state, according to a report from…
A veteran trial lawyer who’s also a musician and composer of a rap song about rules of evidence might seem the perfect choice to lead an innovative program for educating future lawyers. At least John Garvey, director of the new…
Craig Peterson, 46, built his first computer from scratch at age 10. Founder and president of Mainstream Technology Group in Manchester, he also is host of “Tech Talk,” a program that airs Saturdays at noon on three New Hampshire AM…
In a small state like ours, college and university presidents can and do have influence — although perhaps not as much as they should. The importance of the institutions they lead, in many areas including economic as well as educational,…
Like most businesses, Hampton-based utility holding company Unitil Corporation has been facing ever-increasing costs for its employees’ retirement plans. And like most businesses, Unitil also has to face the passing of those increasing costs on to the consumer. But, unlike…
