The House voted 183-85 March 22 to pass a bill giving property and casualty insurance companies a $40.2 million tax cut between fiscal years 2008 and 2012. Rep. Ben Parker, R-Londonderry, who chaired the subcommittee that reviewed House Bill 678,…
Several parties are interested in buying Foss Manufacturing and want to operate it as a growing concern, Patrick J. O'Malley, trustee for the bankrupt Hampton company, revealed March 23 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manchester. The amount the parties are…
Nearly 20 years ago, Bob Markarian started the Architectural Resources Center in Northwood, a firm that manufactures and sells custom and stock window and door hardware for historic buildings. It’s a small company, with just seven full-time employees, but it’s…
When Maurice Fredette put his Nashua home on the market a year ago, he thought it would sell in about a month. That wasn’t the case. He’s had to lower the price three times, and it’s still for sale. Fredette…
Jeff Thredgold’s latest electronic newsletter (thredgold.com). begins with an impressive heading: “$51,100,000,000,000 … another new record.” The article addressed the issue of Americans and their savings. The $55.1 trillion figure is up from $43.58 trillion in 2000 (before the Wall…
The Initiative for Corporate Responsibility and Investor Protection will be holding its inaugural event April 4 with a high-profile panel discussion of corporate ethics. The forum will be held at 4 p.m. April 4 in Huddleston Hall at the University…
Every lawyer in the state pays dues, like it or not, to the New Hampshire Bar Association, chartered by the Legislature in 1873 as a group with delegated oversight of the profession. Every year or two a proposed bill seeks…
Competition in the global economy displaced 1-1/2 million workers from jobs in rural America in a recent six-year period and is changing the nature of work in many rural areas, according to a report by The Casey Institute at the…
Three North Country communities are battling the Appalachian Mountain Club in an effort to make the 103-year-old charitable agency pay full property taxes on its hotels and restaurants in Carroll, Pinkham Notch and Alexandria. The environmental group is contesting in…
Visit Elayne Belkas’s Danville home any day of the week and you will find the former junior accountant at her stove in a kitchen crisp and clean with the scent of citrus and spice or mint and apricot. A pot…
