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…
Stuart Arnett has been director of the Division of Economic Development in the state’s Department of Resources and Economic Development since 1999. Earlier this year, he resigned to join Gregory S. Franklin Associates, a Lebanon-based consulting firm doing economic analysis…
Second of two parts. Long-term care insurance is like no other company benefit, for many reasons. Employers today have great flexibility in how they might ultimately provide such coverage. For instance: • The insurance can be entirely employer-funded, entirely employee-funded,…
With names like “Sun Alter,” “Hell’s Kitchen,” “Cave of Silence” and “Judgment Hall of Pluto,” the caves of Lost River Gorge do much to spark the imagination of visitors. Located at Kinsman Notch in North Woodstock, Lost River Gorge brings…
When Brian Smith informs business owners that nearly 50 percent of their inventory shrinkage can be attributed to internal theft, they listen. Quoting findings from national studies, Smith - a self-proclaimed technogeek who developed a passion for digital surveillance while…
NH First, a 2-1/2-year project aimed at replacing state government’s aging computer and paper financial management system with state-of-the-art software, was lauded by Gov. John Lynch at a July 26 ceremony announcing the project’s launch in Concord. The governor said…
With scientists saying the current strain of the avian flu virus found in various places around the world is most fatal to those aged 15 to 35 — just the demographic of students at colleges and universities — New Hampshire’s…
