Northeast Utilities has sold its competitive generation businesses in Massachusetts and Connecticut to Energy Capital Partners of New Jersey. Sale price was $1.34 billion, including the transfer of $320 million in debt. The deal includes 15 generating plants at 14…
HCA, owner of four for-profit health-care facilities in New Hampshire, yesterday agreed to be acquired in a deal that ranks as the biggest leveraged buyout in history. The company - the nation’s largest for-profit hospital operator -- said the consortium…
At yet another Politics ‘N Eggs breakfast sponsored by the New England Council and the Museum of New Hampshire Political History, Joseph Biden, Democratic senior senator from Delaware, spoke. Given that the room was packed on the Friday before Independence…
“We felt we were being overlooked, not only by people vacationing here, but also by locals,” said Carla Lapierre, owner of Gateway Gallery & Gifts, of the predicament faced by the merchants located on Exchange Street in Gorham. The small…
Long-term care and its associated costs is a major challenge that is evolving for many reasons on several fronts. These forces include an aging population heavily weighted in the age 65-85 demographic, medical technology resulting in much longer life spans,…
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…
