In what has become an annual rite of summer, the biggest losers in the State House struggle to solve school funding start a court battle. The latest entry is a 14-town, middle-wealth group of communities in the southern tier that…
For one New Hampshire company being small does not mean being unnoticed or unappreciated. In fact, for Williams & Hussey Machine Co. Inc. of Wilton, it’s quite the opposite. A manufacturing business dedicated to creating quality machinery for quality craftsmen,…
To the editor: Your recent headline, “American Express unit to pay record $7.4 million” (July 22-Aug. 4 New Hampshire Business Review), is similar to other reported “settlements” by major corporations for claims of wrongdoing, manipulation of earnings reports, misuse of…
The business community in New Hampshire has long understood how important our education system is to their own well-being. Now it looks like a nationally organized alliance of businesses is realizing it as well. A coalition of 15 business organizations…
With New England facing concerted competition from the southeastern United States for jobs and skilled workers, the need for a regional economic strategy becomes more important than ever. While New Hampshire retains its competitive edge in New England with one…
The most enduring legacy of the first Bush presidency is not that George Herbert Walker won the first Gulf War. That is already a historical footnote thanks to the second President Bush and the second Gulf War. What most defines…
New Hampshire recently took a major step toward returning stability and fairness to our small business health insurance market when I signed into law Senate Bill 125 earlier this month. This legislation undoes the onerous provisions of legislation known as…
It used to be that the biggest threat to your personal identity was a random purse or wallet snatching as you walked innocently down the street. Today, an estimated 70 percent of identity crimes in the United States start with…
Going from his house or barn to his fields, Walpole farmer Vincent Malnati can still “get there from here,” but the going will likely be both less convenient and more expensive when the abandoned rail line that cuts through his…
Each of us is bombarded daily with commercial messages — on television and radio, in newspapers and magazines, on billboards, junk mail, truck signage, Internet pop-up ads. Even our shirts, jackets and hats contain advertising slogans and logos. With everything…
