Over the past two years, David Gervais has experienced more loss than some go through in a lifetime. In July 2007, Gervais’ 17-year-old sister Amanda committed suicide. And this month is the one-year anniversary of the death of Gervais’ father,…
Summer in New Hampshire may bring Canadian tourists down across the border and the state’s economy climbing up. Canada is New Hampshire’s top international visitor market, and brings business to lodging, food and retail destinations across the state. Last fiscal…
Almost everyone is trying to live a little leaner in this down economy, and many companies are grappling with the difficult decision of where to cut expenditures. However, just like individuals who forgo insurance in tough economic times only to…
Q. Mark, a human resources manager, conducted an investigation into rumors of sexually harassing behavior by a supervisor, Joe Smith. During the investigation, Mark asked employee Wendy whether she had witnessed any inappropriate behavior by Smith. Wendy disclosed to Mark sexually suggestive comments…
When President Bush signed the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 - one of the largest tax bills ever - it instituted significant changes to the federal estate tax. However, due to congressional budget rules, these changes…
Robert Gagalis, the former chief financial officer of Enterasys Networks who’s serving an 11-1/2 year prison sentence for securities fraud, will get his day in court to prove his claim that his former attorney had a conflict of interest and…
He’s baaack - sort of For a man who has spent his political career criticizing, if not downright deriding government, Bob Smith sure seems to like being part of it. Smith, the favorite New Hampshire Republican senator of circus animals…
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…
While making notes in preparation for writing this column, there are often items that are written down but not developed into an entire piece. While cleaning my desk the other day, I found some of them. In somewhat random order,…
With the calendar year nearly half over, people ask me daily, “When are things going to pick up?” I wish I knew. Unemployment is continuing to grow, though less robustly than in the past several quarters. For real estate people,…
