New Hampshire Business Review - January 28 2011

N.H. bankruptcies fall again in Jan.

When it comes to bankruptcy filings, New Hampshire started 2011 off better than the record-breaking 2010.Some 350 filers - unofficially - filed for bankruptcy in January 2011 -- 14 fewer than in December 2010 and 31 fewer than January 2010.Indeed,…

Helping job-seekers get to 'Yes'

Award-winning human services executive and author Paul Boynton is working with a team of state and private sector partners to give unemployed New Hampshire citizens access to the tools and resources they can use to return to the workforce. His…

NHBR About Town

The Palace Theatre will hold its third annual ‘Table Talk' fundraiser on March 11 at the Derryfield Restaurant in Manchester. Businesses decorate their sponsored tables with a theme to showcase their companies while attendees vote on their favorite design. Shown…

Q&A with High Tech Council's Matt Cookson

Matt Cookson, who was appointed executive director of the New Hampshire High Technology Council in December, knows he is an atypical choice to lead one of the most well-known business advocacy organizations in the state.Cookson has extensive communications and public…

If it ain't broke ...

The New Hampshire House, with its new overwhelming Republican majorities, has been off to a rocky start. The Legislature needs to be careful, in its efforts to balance the budget and assert Republican control, not to destroy New Hampshire institutions…

Wings Your Way flies high with success

The preferred sandwich of Cory Nadilo, the 26-year-old owner of Wings Your Way, one of Manchester's newest downtown restaurants, is the "Monica Lewinsky" - a buffalo chicken wrap loaded with shredded cheese and tortilla strips, "which will go down in…

In defense of wood energy

There is a growing mythology among some who profess a concern about healthy forests and our energy future that wood is bad as a fuel for energy, and that we in the northeastern United States are foolish to include wood…

Quit RGGI and boost the economy

Recently, a group of state lawmakers introduced legislation to withdraw New Hampshire from participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. RGGI is an agreement by the governments of 10 northeastern and mid-Atlantic states to impose a regional cap-and-trade program on…