A proposed bill to give property and casualty insurance firms a $40 million tax break over five years hit a snag in its Senate committee hearing Tuesday. House Bill 678 would cut the tax rate paid by the insurers from…
Citizens Bank has unveiled a second “Citizens Job Bank,” extending a program designed to spur the creation of new jobs in New England. The new program will establish a $150 million below-market-rate loan fund that the banks says will create…
Hudson-based Presstek will be rolling out two new products today at a printing convention in England. The first will be the Presstek Anthem Pro, a new generation of chemical-free thermally imaged digital plate. In addition to only requiring a water…
StockerYale was unable to meet its loan obligations to the National Bank of Canada, according the company’s annual statement filed March 31 with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Although the Salem-based provider of photonics-based products was able to refinance the…
If the bankrupt Riverstone Networks closes its $207 million sale to Lucent Technologies, as expected sometime this week, it could not come soon enough for shareholders, many of whom are from New Hampshire and have been holding on to the…
It’s time policymakers stop ignoring one of society’s biggest menaces — at least to the segment of society that gardens. I refer, of course, to chipmunks. Spring’s thaw inevitably reveals gardens that look like artillery ranges crisscrossed by tunnels. Holes…
Q. I have been approached by a developer who says the General Services Administration is interested in a build-to-suit building for a U.S. agency on a parcel of land that I own. The developer also claims that we can leverage…
Karen Long has owned Amethyst Environmental Ltd. in Lee for 13 years. The six-employee firm offers a range of environmental and safety and health services, from sewer pipeline and septic cleaning to site investigation and remediation, waste management and occupational…
By most accounts, this nation’s providers of new homes will have finished 2005 on a strong note. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of the end of October new home permits across the nation are running 5 percent ahead…
Move over, ladies. Spas are quickly becoming a “guy thing.” According to the International Spa Association, which represents more than 2,500 spa facilities and providers in 73 countries, men make up 29 percent of the $40 billion global spa industry.…
