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…
A blog (short for weblog) is an online personal journal that usually includes reflections, comments and links provided by the writer. Blogs often contain information about the author’s daily activities and may, or may not, include references to his/her employment.…
An employee downloads office files containing names of customers and their Social Security numbers onto his laptop to do some work at home after hours. He stashes the computer in the trunk of his car, but first stops at the…
Top Shelf put several brands of box wine to the test to help find wine that tastes good and stays fresh — thus proving viticulture salvation from oxidation and forced one-sitting consumption really can come in a vacuum-sealed plastic bag…
Lebanon Airport has been through some lean times. It used to offer service from four airlines. Today it has one carrier flying one route. As recently as the early 1990s, the airport served nearly 60,000 passengers a year. By 2004,…
