It took lawmakers 150 minutes earlier this month to introduce, pass and get the governor’s signature on a bill giving 10 percent of the state’s 180,000 Medicare recipients guaranteed payment for a 10-day supply of their prescribed medicines. The quick…
Among the notable books I received for Christmas was, “We Ain’t Making Sausage Here,” a memoir by Marshall Cobleigh, former New Hampshire House Speaker. Starting with his exploits in the early 1960s, the book traces Cobleigh’s legislative career through the…
Shares in New Hampshire-based publicly held companies decreased by an average of 12.4 percent for the year of 2005, according to the end-of-year reading of the New Hampshire Business Review/Chartworth Stock Index. The index’s performance significantly lags the S&P 500,…
To the editor: “There are three kinds of lies,” quipped Mark Twain, “lies, damned lies, and statistics.” My son, a math and statistics whiz and ConVal valedictorian in 1998, and I have been quoting this back and forth now for…
After about 10 years in business, Mike Couturier is closing Hi Fi Exchange, a shop specializing in old record albums and vintage stereo equipment. Couturier’s is one of numerous small businesses that run along the Amherst stretch of Route 101A…
Wanna bet that plenty of people in the Legislature paid close attention to the recent news from Maine that 475 slot machines at the racino in Bangor took in more than $60 million over their first 57 days of operation?…
As the new year began, The Memorial Hospital in North Conway and Parkland Medical Center in Derry both joined a growing number of hospitals throughout the country that have introduced a new approach to patient care - the “hospitalist,” an…
It’s often said that in order to love winter in New Hampshire you have to be a winter sports enthusiast — you have to have a reason to get bundled up and face the frigid air and snowdrifts head on.…
Rep. Neal Kurk, R-Weare, architect of last year’s GraniteCare law, has introduced another major health-care bill, — House Bill 1723 — which is designed to give patients the kind of information that he hopes could drive down medical costs. The…
When Car Component Technologies shut its plants in Bedford and Merrimack and filed for bankruptcy in November, nearly 600 workers — the majority of whom are non-English speaking — were laid off with no advance notice. Rolling up their sleeves…
