New Hampshire Business Review - August 27 2010

Transparency and accountability

To the editor: For the first time in recent memory, the Executive Council has been the top story in many media outlets.Much of that attention has been concerning the proposed removal of Liquor Commission Chairman Mark Bodi and Banking Commissioner…

Resource organizations open for business

With the announced Aug. 31 closing of the Portsmouth-based Women's Business Center, the organization's several hundred members have been encouraged to continue growing their small businesses with other business resource agencies in New Hampshire.But, while not facing the extreme funding…

NHBR About Town

For its long history of environmental stewardship, Bennington-based Monadnock Paper Mills Inc. was recently presented with the 2010 Greenerpalooza Award as part of the Greenerpalooza III festivities at the Meadowbrook U.S. Cellular Pavilion. On hand at the event to honor…

Future construction jumps over 500 percent

Contracts for future construction projects in New Hampshire skyrocketed in July.According to figures from industry information service McGraw-Hill Construction, the dollar amount of July contracts totaled $546.5 million -- more than five times the total of $107.2 million recorded in…