New Hampshire Business Review - August-24 2012

Taking the pulse of the Lakes Region

NHBR’s editors sat down last month with businesspeople from the Lakes Region at the Chase House at Mill Falls in Meredith to discuss how the region’s economy is faring and their expectations for the future. The participants were: Joel Arsenault,…

The unpredictability of the N.H. House primaries

My final column on the upcoming primary races is about the New Hampshire House, which -- unlike the Senate, governorship, or Executive Council -- is largely unpredictable because of its 400-member size.  Why is the New Hampshire House so big?…

Good news for small businesses, sort of

There was some encouraging news recently on the small business front. The number of small businesses sold in the second quarter dropped. How is that encouraging? It was only the first such drop in a year and a strong first…