New Hampshire Business Review - December 7 2007
Proponents have high hopes for Nashua tech park plans
If an informal task force of business leaders, city officials and college and university administrators has its way, about 250 acres of undeveloped commercial property off Exit 1 of the Everett Turnpike in Nashua will hold an important key to…
N.H. goes against export growth trend
For companies that do business globally, gains in productivity increase sales both abroad and at home as lower prices improve domestic sales in relation to competing imports. As a result, a more competitive company, industry or region is likely to…
How to decode a wine list
You’re at an elegant restaurant. Wanting to make a good impression for your dining companions, you volunteer to order a bottle of wine for the table. The waiter offers you a wine list roughly the size of a dictionary. Don’t…
Those lazy, hazy, crazy days of Christmas
The score: real Christmas cards 2, e-cards 0. As of this week, I’ve received two cards by way of the U.S. Postal Service. Of course, we’re only in the early innings of the card exchange game. I’m hoping by the…
Sustainable energy comes to the home
Forget about a hybrid in every garage. How about: •A windmill in every backyard •A solar space heater in every family room •A geothermal or wood-pellet furnace in every basement •High-tech compressive energy audits for every house, with interiors coated…
Let them try Medicaid
One of the most sorry ongoing episodes in the extremely disappointing history of the U.S. Congress over the last few decades has been its inability to do much, if anything, constructive about the nation’s health-care quagmire. Whatever the solution -…
Nashua’s community college undergoing big changes
The Nashua campus of the New Hampshire Community Technical College is going through an evolution, transforming both physically, with the construction of a new wellness center and student union, and academically, with a growing student enrollment and expanded course offerings.…
GOP candidates discuss key business issues: Full Responses
The following are the responses of five of the leading Republican presidential candidates to eight questions posed by New Hampshire Business Review. All candidates were given a 150-word-per-answer limit. Responses were edited down to that length if they exceeded it.…
