New Hampshire Business Review - June-14 2013

June 3, 2013

NH Business Review Staff

Forest Society’s priorities are blowin’ in the wind

Fran Wendelboe,

The organization had numerous reasons to oppose Groton Wind, but never did

Inaccuracies about federal funding for Medicaid

NH Business Review Staff,

Concerns about the reliability of government funding with regard to the Medicaid expansion have been raised.

Medicaid expansion is good for our state

Terie Norelli,

What is the real reason opponents want to stop implementation of Obamacare?

Look before we leap on Medicaid expansion

Andy Sanborn,

We should better understand and analyze the options and do the math before making a decision

Reform? Don’t stop at the IRS

Carol Shea-Porter,

The campaign finance system is also broken, and needs to be fixed

Flotsam & Jetsam: June 14, 2013

NH Business Review Staff,

OF COURSE that editorial in the UL about NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg was all on the up and up.

Divorce and the small business owner

Charles Greenhalgh,

How child support, alimony are calculated, and what that means for the businessperson

At public firms, average N.H. CEO’s pay has gone up 64 percent since 2008

Bob Sanders, Matt Guruge,

The average CEO earned $2.7 million last year

Should employers care about the final HIPAA rule?

Charla Bizios Stevens,

Even companies not covered by the law can never review too often their privacy and security policies and procedures

Q&A with attorney/political activist Billy Shaheen

Michael McCord,

Believe it or not, Madbury lawyer and renowned Democratic Party activist William Shaheen – known to just about everybody as Billy – actually took a lengthy hiatus from politics.

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