New Hampshire exports fell 3.8 percent in October 2009 from the previous month, following a decrease of 19.4 percent in September.In October, $257.8 million worth of goods were shipped from New Hampshire to foreign markets — $10.1 million less than…
For those lucky enough to be out of touch with New Hampshire media during the holidays, here’s what you may have missed in the world of local business.StockerYale CEO acquittedShortly before Christmas, Mark Blodgett, chief executive of StockerYale Inc., was…
If geothermal power was a company, it would have what marketers call a branding problem.“Geothermal,” confusingly, means different things in different locations.In hot spots like Iceland or Yellowstone, it means tapping high underground heat, the sort associated with volcanoes or…
On Jan. 5, former state Sen. Ted Gatsas became mayor of Manchester in what is probably the largest change in New Hampshire government this year.Succeeding Frank Guinta, the two-term Mayor who did not seek re-election and is running for the…
There’s a belief in my profession that over the next few decades, there’s going to be this enormous wealth transfer from one generation to the next, but there are signs that this may not happen.I believe one of the byproducts…
As I watch the various perspectives and recaps of the last decade pop up in numerous media sources, I am struck by their lack of breadth.This has been a turbulent and eventful decade full of changes, issues, happenings, problems and…
Shortly after the atomization of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Albert Einstein wrote, “The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.”Einstein was, of course, talking about the “bomb” and…
There is an old myth that “Nero fiddled while Rome burned.” Here in New Hampshire, the Democrats have fiddled us back to a ‘60s counter-cultural radicalism while letting the state’s economy “burn.” That’s a reality, not just an old myth.Few…
As part of the state budget, legislators closed a tax loophole that applied to limited liability companies. For too long, this inadvertent tax loophole in New Hampshire’s tax system has meant that two nearly identical businesses are treated differently for…
New Hampshire has a low crime rate that has remained stable for years. So why is the number of people we incarcerate growing?In the last 10 years, New Hampshire has seen a 3 percent increase in the number of offenders…
