New Hampshire Business Review - June 19 2009

Senior caned in Lyndeborough

Ninety-one-year-old Jerry Rand was recognized as Lyndeborough's oldest resident on Sunday, when he received a replica of the Boston Post Cane. Rand was born in Fitchburg, Mass., March 20, 1918. He purchased the property on Pettingill Hill Road in the…

Home-care cuts defy logic

To the editor: I am a home-care nurse from Rochester, and I just returned from a trip to Capitol Hill with nurses from every state in America. We were there on behalf of our patients to help preserve access to…

Guarding against computer viruses

It has been about 26 years since the creation of the first computer virus. Today, the number of viruses has increased to over 250,000, and each one has the potential to damage your computer and your business — damage that…

Where’s the leadership?

It is an unfortunate fact that New Hampshire businesses are overtaxed. From the business profits and business enterprise taxes to the local property tax, businesses pay far more than their fair share to fill the coffers of state and local…

It’s a matter of public health

Although fears of a swine flu pandemic have faded, this is no time to lose sight of how easily infectious diseases can pass back and forth among humans and food animals. The fact remains that our food production system needs…

Avoiding the inevitable

June may be flowers and sunshine outside, but inside the State House it’s ugly. It’s the perennial dance of obstinacy, righteousness, anger and frustration. Ratchet it up many notches and welcome to the 2010-11 budget process. When I was in…

Standing at the ready

With only weeks to go before the close of the state’s fiscal year, the New Hampshire Lottery finds itself behind in its revenue goals. Although we on the Lottery Commission are disappointed with the situation, no one is surprised. But…