The Portsmouth-based Pax World Funds wants shareholders to agree to move away from the mutual funds' 35-year-old “fundamental” restrictions in social investment policies, opting for more “flexibility” and a wider range of social criteria. If the proxy sent out last…
Lobbyist and longtime elected and appointed state official William Bartlett of Kingston, most recently chairman of the Pease Development Authority, has been named interim president of the New Hampshire Community Technical College at Stratham/Pease while a search is conducted to…
Citizens Financial Group reported a 4 percent increase in earnings for the first half of 2006. The Providence, R.I.-based company, parent of Citizens Bank, had net income for the six months of $1.45 billion -4 percent higher than earnings in…
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Hampshire and 18 other Blues affiliates will be participating in a nationwide launch of an information database providing health-care information to BCBS members. Blue Health Intelligence, or BHI, is designed to provide…
Jewell Towne Vineyards of South Hampton has earned 24 medals, including two golds, in recent national and regional wine competitions. The Finger Lakes International Wine Competition, held in April in Rochester, N.Y., honored the vineyard with a silver medal for…
The Software Association of New Hampshire has announced the opening of nominations for its annual information technology awards. In previous years, the organization, known as SwANH, has handed out the Rookie of the Year and the Most Valuable Player Awards,…
Reconstructing the highway amendment To the editor: I read your editorial in the July 21 New Hampshire Business Review (“The constitutional amendment we really need”) and thought about how such an amendment might be worded to attract as broad a…
As all political junkies now know, the Democratic National Committee has selected Nevada as the location for a nominating caucus to be held between the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary in 2008. There has been a lot of…
Although globalization, measured by different indicators, increased in the second half of the 20th century, it really has taken off in the past 20 years, driven by worldwide deregulation policies, regional trading blocs and the new role in business activity…
Keeping councilor Nothing tells the story better than a recent Concord Monitor article on the - dare we say? - invulnerability of Executive Councilor Ray Burton in his (and we do mean HIS) North Country District 1. In a 1,000-word…
