A slowdown in the growth of consumer and business spending in New Hampshire’s foreign markets outstripped the benefits of a weaker dollar and dampened international sales in March. State companies exported nearly the same amount of made-in-New Hampshire goods as…
New England’s power plants are cleaner than many others in the country, according to a report issued recently by an environmental advocacy group. According to the report, issued by the Washington-based Environmental Integrity Project, the nation’s dirtiest electrical power plants…
Maybe it is because my mother and father, both UNH English majors and an English teacher and a magazine editor, respectively, thought proper English usage important that I am irritated by certain trends and contrivances of late. First, I am…
It was a beautiful Sunday, and I decided to take a ride to the beach. I love to watch the water. When our lakes are frozen, I have to go to the Seacoast to get my fix. No doubt there…
If you’re considering filing for either Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 protection before the new, more stringent federal bankruptcy law takes effect on Oct. 17, there’s a song that bankers and other creditors wish you would hear and heed. It…
New Hampshire remains near the head of the nation’s class in terms of people getting high school diplomas and college degrees, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau, but the high cost of higher education in the state…
Red whine or white? No sooner had F&J speculated on the apparent political wimpishness of state GOP Chairman Warren Henderson - at least when it came to complaining that New Hampshire Democrats were being mean to Senate Majority Leader and…
A year after its startup, the New Hampshire Virtual Business Incubator is poised to expand across the country by the end of June. Dr. William Osgood, one of the creators of nhVBI, announced the plans last month at the National…
In 1990, Dick Swett — a Yale graduate and an architect who grew up in Laconia, where he starred in football and track — became the first Democrat since 1912 to be elected to Congress from New Hampshire’s 2nd District.…
When The World Schools began 25 years ago, its backdrop, the remnants of a small empty chicken farm on the Daniel Webster Highway in Nashua, was barely large enough for five staff members and the 38 preschoolers being cared for.…
