New Hampshire Business Review - February 17 2006

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…

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…

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 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, 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…

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…

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…

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…