New Hampshire Business Review - December 8 2006
Cook On Concord: Irony of N.H.’s tax system is often lost on the payers
A number of matters recently reported in the press point out the unique and somewhat ironic nature of New Hampshire’s tax system. Before readers jump on me for advocating a change in the system, that is not the purpose of…
Q&A with: New Hampshire Made Executive Director Laurie Ferguson
Laurie Ferguson, 51, grew up in Pittsburgh, Pa., but spent much of her childhood and young adulthood in New Hampshire, going to summer camp, college and competitively skiing in the mountains. After graduating and working as a history teacher, she…
Honesty, integrity, commitment drive Peters Auto Center
More than half a century ago, a father-and-son team from Nashua entered the car business with $200 in cash and two cars parked in a small Main Street lot. Now well known as Peters Auto Center on Amherst Street, that…
Processing glitch mangles Medicare Part D premiums
If your Medicare Part D premiums are automatically taken out of your Social Security check, you just might want to double-check that deduction. A glitch in transferring funds from Social Security to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the…
Letters to the Editor
Businesses need to remember terrorism threat To the editor: I want to commend New Hampshire Business Review for its detailed Emergency Preparedness Guide in the Nov. 24-7 issue. I am struck that the coverage focused mainly on pandemics and natural…
Flotsam & Jetsam
A mighty wind Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the U.S. House and current professional blowhard, paid what could only be described as an incongruous visit to New Hampshire last month. Gingrich, keynote speaker at the Union Leader’s Nackey S.…
