Lying low It took two trials, 26 jurors, armies of lawyers, months of testimony, weeks of deliberation and countless witnesses for a decision to be reached on former Tyco International bigwigs Dennis “Livin’ Large” Kozlowski and Mark “I Know Nothing”…
You’ve worked hard with your team of financial consultants and advisers to build a nest egg that you and they expect to support your retirement lifestyle. But what happens when your 22-year-old college graduate comes back to you - “boomerangs”…
How’s this for a business model? “We don’t really care whether something sells one copy or a thousand copies. It’s irrelevant to us, and not just in a philosophical way — we don’t make any money on anything anyway, so…
The Berlin City Bank and the Pemigewasset National Bank will soon be things of the past - or at least their names will. Northway Financial Inc., parent company of both banks, has plans to consolidate the two institutions into a…
The narrow vote to censure former House Speaker Gene Chandler for his fund-raising mistakes has put a spotlight on Executive Councilor Ruth Griffin, R-Portsmouth, who netted even more money from testimonials without punishment. Opponents of Representative Chandler, R-Bartlett, say he…
The Save the Shipyard Advisory Team — whose goal will be to help remove the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard from the Defense Department base closure list - has been formed by Gov. John Lynch. “This is one more step — a…
Life is not simple. Good people sometimes do bad things. Bad things sometimes happen to good people. The issues of guilt, innocence, appropriate sanction and democracy can all get wrapped up in individual cases. All of these factors were evident…
More than 1,000 small businesses across the country - including some in New Hampshire — have been released from some of their obligations to three leasing companies associated with a now-bankrupt telecomm provider. The settlement — potentially as much as…
It took a man with a vision and $350 to begin a legacy that would connect a family, a community and an industry together for generations. That man was Courtland F.H. Freese I, the community is Pittsfield, N.H., and the…
Charlie Bass is taking serious heat from social conservatives for his leading role in the House vote to relax federal restrictions on stem cell research using new embryonic cell lines. But there’s not a peep about the tens of thousands…
