New Hampshire Business Review - January 13 2012

At 25, DES still plays a vital role

On Jan. 2, 1987, culminating years of legislative deliberations, a new environmental agency was created: the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services. So this year, 2012, marks the 25th anniversary of the creation of DES and its service to the…

Deficit spending, the RGGI way

If the people running New Hampshire's RGGI program were running a business in the private sector, they'd either be fired, under criminal investigation or both. Of course, they're not. And in the world of government, they haven't done anything wrong.They've…

How RGGI benefits small businesses

Grant Bosse of the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy neglects to discuss the benefits of the program as they affect small businesses and jobs in New Hampshire.Bosse suggests that the RGGI program includes reen energy boondoggles -- that is…

Flotsam & Jetsam

Split personalitiesPerhaps medication would be able to take care of the mood swings displayed by the New Hampshire House of Representatives.As a body, under the subjugation of Republicans and through its leadership, the House has repeatedly professed the desire to…

Hedging our citizenship

Deciphering the collective psyche of investors in the current economic climate is a challenge, to say the least. There are no easy answers -- only many complicated questions.To some, including the growing leagues of protesters, such as Occupy Wall Street,…

Are you LinkedIn or linked out?

Remember the dot-com era? We were made to feel like dinosaurs unless we were part of a dot-com business. They claimed it was a new business model that rewrote the rules.Most of them weren't making any money. The new model…

Transformative texting

With 6 billion text messages sent daily in the United States, texting has seemingly become a national pastime. This is evident to any casual observer in a public place, where most people can be seen texting while walking, shopping, and…

N.H.'s next economic engine: nanotubes

For the past decade or so, nanotechnology - the study of manipulating matter at an atomic and molecular scale -- has been promoted (hyped) as the next industrial revolution. "Nanotechnology for Dummies" (Wiley Publishing) in 2005 described a future that…