Reality check You can’t blame New Hampshire Republicans, and particularly candidate Jim Coburn, for pretending they have a shot at the corner office this year, but at some point you’d hope they’d at least acknowledge that they’re playing in an…
Jack Byrne sat at his kitchen table in his Hanover home discussing how much he might have personally lost as a result of Hurricane Katrina. “I lost a lot of money. My wife lost a lot of money. I wouldn’t…
Shares in New Hampshire-based publicly held companies decreased by an average of 11.7 percent in the second quarter of 2006, according to the latest reading of the New Hampshire Business Review/Chartworth Stock Index. The index itself, which is price-weighted, declined…
During its recently concluded 2006 session in Concord, the Legislature considered a number of energy-related issues, but didn’t pass some of the most controversial energy bills. Two that garnered significant attention but were not passed by lawmakers concerned the establishment…
Pamela Novotny, a 44-year-old mother of three daughters, works in the highway construction industry through a state Department of Transportation On the Job Training Program funded by the Federal Highway Administration. Novotny has been working for Audley Construction since April…
Thirty-one years after the United States ended a losing war against a communist takeover of South Vietnam, a unified Vietnam is discovering the benefits of capitalism, says a New Hampshire economist who spent a month in the Southeast Asian nation…
Even at a very young age, Cory Nadilo knew he wanted his own business. In his 5th grade yearbook, Nadilo listed “inventor” as his future aspiration. Years later, while a student at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, he pursued studies in…
Most New Hampshire business owners’ most valuable asset is their business itself. However, unlike most other assets, where markets and mechanisms for transferring these assets are well known, many business owners are not fully aware of the options available when…
One of the first and surely the best known of the high-tech entrepreneurs to make Manchester’s Millyard District his corporate home, Dean Kamen is founder of DEKA Research & Development Corp., the Science Education and Enrichment Museum and the annual…
Last week I was conducting a historical review of occupancy costs for a longtime client. In the late 1980s the company averaged about $19 a square-foot “all in.” In the early 1990s this figure actually dropped to about $17. By…
