Opinion

Misclassification of employees as independent contractors is a violation of New Hampshire law, and it fundamentally undermines New Hampshire's strong business climate.By driving higher unemployment and workers' compensation costs for the overwhelming majority of businesses that follow the law, misclassification…

While right and left disagree on the details of what caused the Great Recession, one thing is clearly not in dispute. No 5-year-olds entering school for the first time took out subprime mortgage loans, no 4th-graders traded in over-leveraged credit…

The recently passed Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is considered the most significant piece of banking legislation since the Glass-Steagall Act was passed in 1932.The magnitude and scope of this 2,300-plus page act is immense and was…

Back in the day in Y2K, the eCoast - a special committee of the Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce - hosted TechWorld 2000, an expo of New Hampshire Seacoast technology businesses. Now, exactly 10 years later, TechWorld 2010 will return…

Did you notice the attorney general's report regarding Financial Resources Mortgage Inc. treaded lightly on the office's culpability concerning FRM as well as that of the state Banking Department?Only when legislative hearings clearly identified a significant failure by the AG's…

We recently wrote an op-ed contending that Arizona's immigration law SB 1070 was unconstitutional ("Arizona v. all of us," July 16-29 NHBR). Well, shortly following, the federal court in Arizona agreed.U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton put on hold the most…

A recent cover of Newsweek featured a heavily armed, helmeted officer with the caption, "Police State: America's New Way of Life." New Hampshire's motto, "Live Free Or Die," stands in obvious stark opposition to such a dangerous, chillingly un-American trend.…

In the first week of July, U.S. Rep. William Delahunt, D-Massachusetts, introduced yet again legislation in Congress known as the “Main Street Fairness Act” (H.R. 5660), related to the “Streamlined Sales Tax Agreement (SSTA)”. This effort has been tried and…

In an effort to stimulate the economy by encouraging business purchasing in 2009, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act extended the capital investment incentives passed as part of the 2008 Economic Stimulus Act.Specifically, ARRA temporarily extended, through the end of…

The following is a letter written by Jeff Pelletier, general manager of the Holiday Inn in Concord, and signed by 46 other New Hampshire businesspeople, urging Bruton Smith, owner of New Hampshire Motor Speedway, to keep both NASCAR races at…