House to vote on tax-cut bills
The good news is that there will be several attempts in today’s House session to lower business taxes. The bad news: none of them has much of a chance. House Bill 1638 would cut the communications service tax from 7…
New Hampshire Business Review - February 17 2006
Curative delisted from Nasdaq
Troubled Nashua health sciences company Curative Health Services has been delisted from the Nasdaq stock exchange for failing to maintain adequate share value. Previous warnings by Nasdaq required Curative to maintain at least $15 million in market value of publicly…
Riverstone seeks to block shareholder meeting
Cabletron Sytems spinoff Riverstone Networks will be going to bankruptcy court on Thursday in an attempt to thwart a March 7 shareholder meeting that a Delaware state court ordered to be held before Riverstone filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection…
Frisbie launches medication management system
Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester has begun implementing new software that it says is a big step toward making the administration of medication safer. The new software from Lenexa, Kan.-based Mediware Information Services Inc., “will allow for a more efficient…
StockerYale losses continue
StockerYale, the Salem-based maker of phontonic products, continued to lose millions as its 2005 fiscal year came to a close. The company lost nearly $5.6 million in the last quarter of 2005 and nearly $11.9 million for the year, according…
Why did N.H. firms receive 9/11 SBA loans?
What do a country inn in Lyme, a photo shop in Goffstown and a general store in Dublin have in common? All received federally backed loans that went to businesses “adversely affected” by the September 11th terrorist attacks. None of…
Cook On Concord: The state of the state Republican Party
Among the topics of conversation while waiting for President George W. Bush to address a full house at Manchester’s Center of New Hampshire on Feb. 8, was the future of the New Hampshire Republican Party. Lately, with the resignation of…
Letters to the Editor
Claremont’s downtown is full of promise To the editor: Although I agree with most of John Walter’s story, “Real Estate Markets turning red hot in Claremont and Newport” (Jan. 6-19 New Hampshire Business Review), I was disappointed about his negative…
Flotsam & Jetsam
Afraid of Fran? There’s a bit of irony in the argument being whispered by state Republican Party muckity-mucks about state Rep. Fran Wendelboe’s attempt to be the next chair of the party. The whispering goes that, as chair, Wendelboe would…
Electronic records help cure physicians’ charting ills
The task of deciphering a doctor’s handwriting is quickly becoming a thing of the past as electronic medical records take hold at many physicians’ offices and hospitals across the state. Also known as EMRs, the computer systems allow doctors and…
