New Hampshire Business Review - February 15 2008
LEED benefits are more than financial
To the editor: We were interested to read the article, “Building green gives a business long-term benefits,” in the Feb. 1-14 edition of New Hampshire Business Review. Our real estate development company is currently building the first LEED-certified retail building…
H-1B visas are indentured servitude
To the editor: I am amazed that a New Hampshire attorney would openly promote the importation of non-American indentured six-year servants to be trained by loyal American workers who are then to be discarded (“H-1B visa program is broken, and…
Don’t forget DividedWeFail
To the editor: During the New Hampshire primary, you may have seen DividedWeFail’s purple mascot “Champ” on signs, on television, online and in print ads. Champ, our special elephant/donkey cross, has become a symbol of bipartisanship across the country. We…
In November, N.H. exports surged to an all-time high
Following a decrease of 3.5 percent in October, foreign sales from New Hampshire’s companies surged 11.4 percent in November 2007. The $26.1 million monthly surge in foreign shipments from the previous month brought exports to an all-time high of $255.6…
Private equity buyouts can be bad, ugly or good
When Gene Smith, supervisor at Riverside Millwork (known as Rivco) for the past 30 years, first met the new managers from Boston area private equity firm JMC Venture Partners, which last winter took over the troubled Penacook firm, he was…
The WPA’s enduring legacy
*NOTE: This article was written based on an advanced review copy. Additions, deletions and changes may be included in the published version. The Great Depression was a time of unprecedented poverty. Few times since the beginning of the nation had…
