The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) recently increased its audit activity of non-construction federal contractors/subcontractors. Is your company ready to respond? For many employers, the answer, unfortunately, will be no — either because they…
Small businesses in New Hampshire, and undoubtedly throughout the United States, continue to reel from astronomical increases in health-care costs. Health-care premiums are going up in annual double digit increases, but coverages are shrinking at the same time — the…
Q. What are the types of prepayment penalty options I will encounter when financing a commercial property? A. A prepayment penalty is included in most commercial mortgage loans to assure the lender that the anticipated yield that the loan was…
What's in a name? It was one of those afternoons when southern New Hampshire felt more like Bangladesh than New England. Out of necessity, I had to depart from my usual Big Red with tannins so heavy they make your…
I lost a major account yesterday. The e-mail from the editor was brief, “Hesh, your humor just doesn’t translate well in Australia.” My response? Really, I have nothing disparaging to say about Australians. First, I do not know any. I…
It wasn’t much — a run down New Englander with peeling paint on a quiet Pembroke street — but to William Bouley, “it was the first home I’ve had in 40 years. I came from the streets, and here I…
Medical providers in New Hampshire say the new Medicare Part D drug benefit — passed to much acclaim in 2003 — is poorly planned to the point of chaos, with time running out for a smooth Jan. 1, 2006, program…
Mark Handley, president of New Hampshire Public Radio since 1990, will retire in mid-October to begin a long-anticipated trip around the world with his wife Judy aboard their 42-foot Tayana sailboat. Handley has had careers in both teaching and broadcasting.…
The hoopla surrounding the implementation of E-ZPass in New Hampshire has been an interesting sideshow. The fact is that by offering a large discount to jump-start the system, the state did a good job of weaning us token addicts from…
Shares in New Hampshire-based publicly traded companies increased by an average of 5.3 percent in the second quarter, according to the latest reading of the New Hampshire Business Review/ Chartworth Stock Index. The increase stands in contrast to the 5.6…
