New Hampshire Business Review - July 3 2009

70 attend family reunion

EDITOR'S NOTE: Around the Towns, which typically runs Saturdays, appears in the Friday edition of The Telegraph this week because there will be no Saturday paper. WILTON - The McGettigan family reunion was held at the farm in Wilton on…

Gas station-convenience store OK'd

EDITOR'S NOTE: Around the Towns, which typically runs Saturdays, appears in the Friday edition of The Telegraph this week because there will be no Saturday paper. The Lyndeborough Planning Board has unanimously approved plans from Scott and Janet Quilty to…

Food drive packs on the pounds

EDITOR'S NOTE: Around the Towns, which typically runs Saturdays, appears in the Friday edition of The Telegraph this week because there will be no Saturday paper. Terry Tansey, of Merrimack, an employee at UnitedHealthcare of New England, helped raise 1,812…

Let’s import jobs into N.H.

Despite all of our problems, America remains the most attractive market in the world for almost every product imaginable. In large part, this is why most American businesses don’t immediately think of exporting their products abroad - a major failing…

The SBA’s Recovery Act role

It’s been a little more than four months since President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. In that time, the U.S. Small Business Administration has implemented new programs to get credit flowing again and has several more on…

Ruling raises doubts about state budget

A Superior Court judge’s June 25 decision may throw a giant monkey wrench into New Hampshire’s recently approved state budget. In her ruling, Belknap County Superior Court Kathleen McGuire disqualified the New Hampshire attorney general’s office from representing the New…

Budget crisis fuels shorter week debate

For the past year, the union representing state employees has lobbied Gov. John Lynch for a four-day workweek. Now they’re using the state’s fiscal woes as leverage to move this idea forward. “We believe that delivering New Hampshire state services…

Flotsam & Jetsam

Kinda like vanity plates Funny, isn’t it, that the guy for whom the Judd Gregg Meteorological Institute at Plymouth State University and Gregg Hall, the environmental technology building at the University of New Hampshire are named - just to name…

Where will the stimulus jobs be?

Now that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 has been law for a few months, it’s a good time to see what effect it may be having in New Hampshire. Even though our seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in…