Along with over a thousand other people, I attended the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year Dinner in March. It was a classy event, focusing on Manchester’s recent history and culminating in the recognition of Clara Monier,…
The Legislature has winnowed a spate of health insurance reform bills down to two survivors, House Bill 611, now in the Senate, and Senate Bill 125, now in the House. HMOs oppose pieces of both proposals and are urging the…
Did abuse charges fall on deaf ears? The New Hampshire Pari-Mutuel Commission, after accepting the surrender on May 3 of scandal-ridden Lakes Region Greyhound Park’s license, congratulated itself on handling a difficult issue, one that involved the federal indictment of…
There were three venture financings in New Hampshire in the first quarter of 2005 — exactly the same number as seen in the first quarter of 2004. One was a first-round financing, and the others were third rounds. All three…
Timing is everything, or so they say. We have witnessed situations in “hot” industries in which business owners say they are going to sell when their profitable business grows to a certain level of revenues — from, for example, $15…
As America’s oldest living patent attorney, C. Yardley Chittick has helped countless clients gain patents on their prized inventions. But only God holds the patent on Yardley Chittick. “I was born in Newark, N.J., in 1900,” says the most senior…
William F. Whyte, chief executive officer of Gilsum-based W.S. Badger Company Inc., has been named the U.S. Small Business Administration’s 2005 Small Business Person of the Year for New Hampshire. Whyte was one of eight winners of SBA awards in…
With an enormous clientele of aging baby boomers to tap, southern New Hampshire is seeing an influx of housing developments catering to the over-55 crowd. "They're happening everywhere," said Jill Robinson, a land-use planner with the Rockingham Planning Commission in…
The lure is cast through unsolicited faxes to New Hampshire businesses, and the bait is seductive. It offers extensive health-care benefits, with little or no restrictions, no exclusions for pre-existing conditions or age, often at a monthly cost of less…
A two-day “boot camp” designed for community-minded entrepreneurs put together by Stonyfield Farm and the School of Community Economic Development at Southern New Hampshire University will be held June 9-10 at the university in Manchester. Called The Stonyfield Farm Entrepreneurship…
