New Hampshire Business Review - April-1 2016

January 4, 2016

NH Business Review Staff

AIANH names new executive director

NH Business Review Staff,

Kastel to take over for Isaak on Oct. 1

The hazy, crazy days of summer

Bill Norton,

Thanks to technology, the pace doesn’t seem to slow down

NHHTC Entrepreneur of Year finalists named

NH Business Review Staff,

Howard Brodsky, Patrick Sullivan and Marjorie and Stephen Thorpe vie for annual award at June 7 event

Maine bank acquires NH’s Lake Sunapee Bank Group

Jeff Feingold,

$143 million deal would create $3.3 billion company

Mass. firm to relocate to Hudson facility

NH Business Review Staff,

Innovation Associates buys 75k-square-foot Sagamore Industrial Park building

NH’s February construction unemployment sixth lowest in U.S.

Jeff Feingold,

6% industry jobless rate is 2.5% lower than a year ago

House panel votes to put breastfeeding bill on ice

Bob Sanders,

Watered-down measure recommends setting up a study committee

Bills seek to update NH’s aging business tax laws

Bob Sanders,

With no changes since 2000, state code seen as ‘a dinosaur’

Fairness, not free money, for utilities

Donald Kreis,

We shouldn’t have to overpay them just to help customers save energy

A banker’s view of business borrowing

Don St. Germain,

We really are trying to get to a ‘yes’

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