Last month there was a new wrinkle in the debate over national forest management. In an attempt to save money, New Hampshire’s U.S. Sen. John Sununu, through an amendment to a federal spending bill, proposed to limit construction of new…
Move over Claremont and the other so-called property-poor towns that started the still-unresolved Claremont education-funding lawsuit. A new gang of towns - the self-styled New Hampshire Communities for the Adequate Funding of Education - are about to ride into court.…
“It’s always safer to do nothing!” So said the late Dr. W. Edwards Deming again and again and again. Dr. Deming was one of the Americans who taught the Japanese and so many others around the world how to build…
Q. I and three of my co-workers are forming a partnership to pursue a good business opportunity. Each of us is contributing something different in terms of money and expertise, and each will provide different inputs once the business is…
The New Hampshire Industrial Research Center at the University of New Hampshire has awarded a second grant to Regal Sleeving and Tubing of Newmarket to help support continued development of more efficient production processes by UNH researchers. Regal Sleeving was…
David H. Russ, who oversaw the University of California’s multibillion-dollar investments, has been named chief investment officer of Dartmouth College. Russ, who starts his new job Aug. 1, succeeds Jonathon C. King, who joined the University of North Carolina at…
The financial advisory division of American Express Co. has agreed to pay a record-setting settlement to resolve allegations by the state Bureau of Securities Regulation that it steered clients into the company’s under-performing mutual funds instead of their more attractive…
Thirteen New Hampshire district courts will soon be able to offer mediation as an option to deal with small-claims lawsuits now that Gov. John Lynch has signed legislation allowing the practice. “I think mediation is so important for our court…
Q. Can you explain the financial implications of a commercial mortgage loan that has an application, origination or processing fee required by the lender? A. The fees that you reference are typically called points, but are called many things by…
I am sitting in the shade on my patio this Fourth of July weekend. Saturday and Sunday had magnificent weather. That moves 2005 from a 2.0 to a 3.0 on a scale of 1 to 10! But I get frequent…
