It ain’t over ‘til it’s over
In the movie, “Field of Dreams,” the resurrected Joe Jackson looks at the ballpark built in a cornfield and asks, “Is this heaven?” “No, Iowa,” he’s told. Sports fans in New England may be feeling the same way as we…
New Hampshire Business Review - April 1 2005
Visa program gives firms another way to import workers
When Celestica Inc. announced it was closing its Salem plant last month — and laying off 420 workers because it could manufacture more competitively on foreign soil - a curious fact wasn’t mentioned. During the last three years, the high-tech…
Q&A: Parkland Medical Center’s CEO Anne Jamieson
Anne Jamieson is a registered nurse, has been a health-care manager, a clinical technology director and an attorney. She recently added chief executive officer to her list of titles. Only two months into her new role as head of Parkland…
Utilities Watch
The issues surrounding storage of high-level nuclear waste remain unsettled amid reports of falsified studies concerning the Yucca Mountain site in Nevada, development of a possible temporary storage site in Utah and federal legislation that would authorize long-term storage at…
Cook On Concord
The Terry Schiavo matter raised many timely and important issues relevant to New Hampshire as well as the rest of the nation. First, the extraordinary involvement in the matter by the state courts, federal courts, Congress, the president and then,…
Lynch, Stephen duel over pace, path of Medicaid reform
Gov. John Lynch maintains he’s the one in charge of the state’s health and human services reform plan — and he will move forward cautiously in drawing it up. But Health and Human Services Commissioner John Stephen is lobbying hard…
An open letter to Judd Gregg and John Sununu
Hey, out there in Washington! Remember us, your constituents in New Hampshire? The people you’re supposed to represent? Think you might actually consider - and act on - OUR views, wishes and interests? Think you might stop repeating “yes” to…
The Pfundstein Report
You may know that the cost of insurance includes a 2 percent tax on the premiums you pay. House Bill 678, which resulted from the work of a legislative study committee, would decrease the tax from 2 percent to 1…
First New Hampshire Vioxx lawsuit is filed
A Newbury woman and her lawyer have filed what appears to be the state’s first Vioxx lawsuit. Joyce DiMauro and her lawyer, Thomas Braun of Manchester, filed the suit against Merck & Co. Inc. in U.S. District Court. They have…
Portside
When it comes to lip service, there’s probably no group of Americans who can boast of vaster quantities than veterans. At election time, when federal politicians wrap themselves in the flag, there’s usually a vet or two for the photo…
