A.M. Best won’t downgrade its rating of White Mountains Insurance Group’s Folksamerica reinsurance subsidiary, despite an unexpected $203 million hurricane-related loss that led to the collapse of the subsidiary’s “sidecar,” Olympus. After a two-month review, the rating agency said that…
Several New Hampshire colleges and universities are included on this year’s U.S. News & World Report’s annual ranking of the top educational institutions in the nation. Dartmouth College in Hanover placed in the top 10 of the news magazine’s Best…
KeySpan’s shareholders have voted overwhelmingly to approve the company’s acquisition by British utility National Grid. The combined company will create the third-largest energy delivery utility in the United States, delivering gas and electricity to 8 million customers in the Northeast.…
On a sweltering day, when peak demand records for electricity were set in New England and New Hampshire, a state legislative study committee is considering whether electric consumers in the Granite State should continue to pay for energy-efficiency programs. During…
Mike Malzone, one of the town of Merrimack’s newest elected officials, is taking part in a drastic change of government that’s not only become much more conservative, but one that also changed its structure from a five-member board of selectmen…
I voted for Joe Lieberman once, writing in his name in the 2004 GOP presidential primary against President Bush. He didn’t get the GOP nomination. Maybe that is his problem — not the nomination, the fact I, a moderate Republican,…
New Hampshire exporters are making the most of a weakened dollar, according to a new study by the International Private Enterprise Center at the University of New Hampshire Whittemore School of Business and Economics. According to the center, the Nominal…
To the editor: Regarding your editorial lamenting the New Hampshire Legislature’s “power grab” of the jurisdiction over charity-run games of Texas Hold ‘Em and the like (“The New Hampshire Tax ’Em tournament, Aug. 4-17 NHBR), it would be really refreshing…
In the bag Plenty of people around here remember local boy Nick Ashooh, the man who had the job nobody wanted: the ‘80s spokesman for the owners of the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant. Ashooh’s still working in the industry as…
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