For Top Shelf’s most recent tasting, 30 people gathered at the Hanover Street Chophouse in Manchester, Chuck Rolecek’s newest culinary endeavor, known for its rich masculine décor and steaks as big as your head. We couldn’t have had a more…
A bill to require that self-employed people sign a labor form declaring their independent contractor status passed the Senate 16-8 this week on a party-line vote, but it failed in the House. Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-Portsmouth, co-sponsored the legislation to…
J. Bonnie Newman has been asked to return to the University of New Hampshire as interim president. The executive committee of the University System of New Hampshire board of trustees yesterday unanimously endorsed the recommendation from Chancellor Stephen J. Reno…
Dinah Haycock, a resident who claims she was snookered into taking an Ameriquest Mortgage Company loan that now has her facing foreclosure, has sued the company in federal court in a rare motion to rescind the mortgage. Haycock, who lives…
Granite State businesses and towns looking for debt or equity financing for real estate acquisitions or development, plant expansion or other capital projects should consider whether they qualify for financing under the federal New Markets Tax Credit Program. The program…
Summer is about to begin. So where are we in terms of the regional economy, trends in commercial real estate and prospects for the second half of the year? A recent survey of New Hampshire businesses taken at the beginning…
Here are just some of the business-related bills that the Legislature passed on Wednesday: • Senate Bill 140: Contractors will be able to pay the state Department of Environmental Services to mitigate wetlands rather than have to do it themselves.…
The former Shaker community at Enfield in western New Hampshire is only a shadow of its former self, but at its heart is a remarkable building: the six-story Great Stone Dwelling, the biggest residential structure ever built by the Shakers.…
Patients weren’t the only ones wading through the jungle of requirements and restrictions during the recently closed open enrollment period for the Medicare Part D prescription program. The process has proven to be fraught with headaches for health-care providers as…
In 1995, while a freshman at the University of Miami, Peter Bielagus found himself struggling under the weight of $5,000 in credit card debt. Today, at 29, Bielagus has built a lucrative business out of providing financial guidance to young…
