Letters to the Editor
Using the Common Man for common good To the editor: It is not hard to understand why Alex Ray, owner of the Common Man family of restaurants, is celebrating 35 years of success. If one defines success as I do…
New Hampshire Business Review - January 5 2007
Court ruling may lower bar on wrongful termination
A supervisor berates a food service worker for making a peanut butter sandwich incorrectly. The same supervisor treats the employee gruffly for several days, ignores her altogether, then gives her a substandard performance appraisal. Are these actions sufficient to substantiate…
Are you ready to start taking care of your parents?
Americans are living longer these days. I recently heard on the radio that the oldest person in America had just passed away at age 116. As baby boomers, we’re experiencing a new phenomenon that will last many generations to come:…
Norton on Real Estate: N.H. would benefit by working with the rest of New England
In October, I served as host to Neal Peirce, a syndicated columnist with the Washington Post Writers Group. Neal is affiliated with Citistates Group. He and Curtis Johnson spent three years working on the New England Futures Project. They spent…
Top Shelf: Scotch whisky
Scotland’s “water of life,” better known to most of us as scotch whisky, isn’t nearly as difficult or complicated to enjoy as one would think, as 20 tasters found out at the most recent Top Shelf Tasting, held Dec. 20…
The fundamentals of building a better Web site
Before they walk through your door, they click through your Web site — really! It’s a fast-paced, high-tech world we work in, and it’s vital for businesses to have an informative, easy-to-navigate site that allows visitors to quickly find what…
New trust law gives N.H. an advantage
One of the major changes New Hampshire’s adoption earlier this year of the Trust Modernization and Competitiveness Act of 2006 trust laws brings to the state’s trust law is the creation of a new group of trust companies called family…
New Hampshire exports fall again in October
After falling 2.9 percent in September, exports from New Hampshire companies declined another 4 percent in October - a $9.7 million monthly fall in foreign shipments that brought total exports to $234.4 million in October. But, compared with last year,…
Use caution in declaring home-business deductions
If you’re like the over 128,500 home-based businesses incubating in New Hampshire, you may be eligible for tax deductions on a portion of your everyday living expenses. But a word of caution: the Internal Revenue Service is paying very close…
Lynch inaugural addresses business issues
Governor John Lynch talked about more than school funding and taxes during his inaugural address on Thursday, devoting some of his attention to proposals that directly address issues of concern to New Hampshire’s business community. And now that Lynch has…
