A Portsmouth construction bid software firm is suing an Arizona rival over advertising claims. BID2WIN Software is claiming that Hard Dollar Corp. distorted a Construction Financial Management Association survey to exaggerate its own growth and disparaged BID2WIN’s growth in its…
Dr. Rose H. Arthur, executive director of the Rivier Institute for Senior Education, or RISE, was pleased to hear earlier this year that she had been named New Hampshire’s Older Worker of the Year by Experience Works, a national organization…
International Insurance Company, now Riverstone Resources LLC, moved to New Hampshire from Chicago seven years ago, looking for room to grow and a way to lower operating costs. The company found both in the giant Waumbec Mills building in Manchester’s…
Losing his Claremont home to foreclosure was almost the least of John Grossi’s problems. Last year, the 51-year-old machine shop quality control engineer said he had heart and brain surgery while trying to caring for a wife dying of bone…
New Hampshire’s state primary is held in September, and this year it is on Tuesday, the 12th. Almost no one seems to be focusing on that day at this point, except for candidates in contested races, of which there are…
Nearly three decades ago, the founders of Presstek Inc. introduced the firm’s first direct imaging printing technology, changing the industry by eliminating the need for photographic darkrooms, film and toxic processing chemicals. Today, nearly all of the 3,000 different types…
How to protect the primary To the editor: Mahatma Gandhi once said, “You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result.” Those are good words to live by. And…
Vibro-Meter Inc. knows how critical partnerships can be to business success. In fact, it was the firm’s work with the New Hampshire Business Resource Center that convinced it to make a $12 million investment in New Hampshire rather than move…
Q. My parents own a vacant eight-acre parcel of land that they want to sell to an abutting institution that has continually expressed interest over the years. How can they best identify and maximize the potential value in order to…
Bonus depreciation deductions are gone for good, which means small-business owners are generally required to write off equipment costs under the Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System, or MACRS. Typically, it will take years using MACRS deductions to recoup the cost…
