New Hampshire Business Review - February 2 2007

A bill that would increase the state excavation tax from 2 cents to 50 cents a yard looks like it may be buried after lobbyists for the industry showed up in state House Municipal and County Government Committee on Tuesday.…

New Hampshire had the second-largest decrease in manufacturing jobs among the six New England states in 2006, according to a recently released manufacturing directory. The number of manufacturing jobs in New Hampshire fell by 2.5 percent in 2006, the 2007…