The town of Pittsfield made its case at a state Public Utilities Commission hearing last week to keep a subsidiary of Pennichuck Corporation from taking over three private water systems in other areas of the state for $750,000. Pittsfield Aqueduct,…
Hampton-based electric utility Unitil Corp. released its 2005 year-end earnings with an increase over 2004 earnings. In 2005, the company earned $8.4 million, or 4.8 percent, over 2004 full-year earnings of $8 million. Earnings per share rose to $1.51 for…
Plans to sell the Bellows Falls, Vt.-based Internet service provider SoVerNet to Atlantic Tele-Network for $12 million have been approved by the Vermont Public Service Board. While Vermont is its core market, SoVerNet provides dial-up service to much of New…
If you took out a mortgage from Ameriquest Mortgage Company during the past six years, you may be entitled to a piece of a $325 million national settlement over the sub-prime lender’s alleged predatory lending practices. The settlement was announced…
No one is opposing a bill in the Legislature that calls for creation of a commission to study the issue, but the proposal for a seven-state Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants has New…
Nestled in the woods on the campus of the University of New Hampshire in Durham is the New England Center. The center’s two buildings, conference facility and 115-room hotel are so well situated in their location, one could almost mistake…
When you consider that there are 424 New Hampshire legislators (400 in the House and 24 in the Senate), if each legislator has but two ideas that he or she thinks require legislation, there would be 848 bills. But they…
Several business groups are joining together to urge support for a Senate bill that would restore a research and development tax credit against the business profits tax. Senate Bill 380, sponsored by Sen. Bob O’Dell, R-Lempster, would let a firm…
Lawmakers heard several hours of emotional hearing testimony Jan. 26 on a pair of House bills aimed at reversing the impact of a state Supreme Court decision that last summer affirmed the right of apartment tenants to stay put after their…
According to the findings of a recent survey conducted by the Geneva-based World Economic Forum, the United States ranked second to Finland in global competitiveness in 2005. In last year’s rankings of the international organization — which has been measuring…
