Mortgage interest rates are rising, but the average selling price of a New Hampshire home remains among the highest in the nation. Single-family home building permits are being issued at a brisk pace, but the need for affordable housing is…
Pat McDermott, economic and community development manager for Public Service of New Hampshire, is what New Hampshire Business Resource Center Director Roy Duddy calls “the sixth man on our bench - the guy we can turn to when we need…
That spot above the mantel is just screaming for a Degas. Or maybe something by James Aponovich. Or perhaps you should just throw caution to the wind and splurge on that Dürer woodcut you saw in Venice last summer. Choosing…
To begin with, Florida is a very large state to drive through. And there are a lot of distractions along the way. I’m a breakfast guy, and I don’t like to go to far without a good meal under my…
COPS out Old programs never die, and old senators never fade away, they just go on talking on C-SPAN. Mostly, they talk about saving those old programs, though occasionally a senator will find one he wants to eliminate. The chances…
It all started because of her son’s baby blanket. It kept blowing off in the wind, getting tangled in the stroller’s wheels, becoming dirty dragging on the ground. But instead of complaining or doing laundry, Sharon Mullen developed a business.…
This year dawned with signs of a slowdown in foreign sales from New Hampshire’s companies. Although exports of locally made goods edged down in January by 3.2 percent from December, they held up well and stayed at high levels. In…
You may get your x-rays taken in the emergency room of your local hospital, but a physician on the other side of the globe may be doing the diagnosis. The growing phenomenon of outsourcing - from setting up call centers…
A new series of federal indictments not only widens the net in the probe of Enterasys Networks Inc. but seems to narrow the focus of the investigation, to the point in time when the company was being spun off from…
Results of a $3 million nurse-training program has exceeded all original expectations and created new partnerships to upgrade the skills of New Hampshire’s nurses, according to the Workforce Opportunity Council. The Nursing Workforce Partnership Project is completing its three-year program…
