A friend of mine sent me an article by Time magazine columnist Michael Kinsley that ran on the op-ed page of The New York Times. Consider that Daimler-Benz paid more than $30 billion for Chrysler and is now selling 80…
The expansion project currently under way at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester is on budget and on schedule to reopen in April 2008, according to museum officials. Still 10 months away from opening, the $21.4 million expansion is…
A cost-cutting measure proposed in April by the federal Medicare Payment Advisory Commission could mean that as many as 4,000 New Hampshire beneficiaries could lose their Medicare Advantage supplemental coverage. The proposal, which proponents say is designed to improve efficiency…
As it has for much of the last decade, New Hampshire is expected to set the economic pace among New England states over the next several years. According to the latest forecast put together by Ross Gittell, a professor at…
We live in a smaller world in which the pace of business moves faster than ever. The global impact of the economy now reaches us at all levels, no matter whether companies are doing business internationally, across the United States,…
Community Bank and Trust shareholders will get a little extra this quarter, thanks to its planned merger into Ocean National Bank, a Portsmouth-based subsidiary of Chittenden Corp. in Vermont, the company announced on Wednesday. The Wolfeboro-based bank said it will…
The board of directors of New Hampshire Thrift Bancshares Inc., parent company of Lake Sunapee Bank, has authorized a stock repurchase plan allowing the company to repurchase up to 5 percent (253,776 shares) of its common stock outstanding as of…
Note: This is the first in a series of inside stories detailing actual venture capital transactions. Dates, numbers and other details have been changed to protect the private nature of the information. A few years back, our fund closed an…
Attorney Robert Backus, of counsel to the Manchester firm of Backus, Meyer, Solomon & Branch, has a long history of activism on political and environmental issues. As counsel for the Seacoast Anti-Pollution League, he was a key figure in the…
The New Hampshire Banking Department threatened three major payday lenders with cease-and-desist orders late last summer, according to documents obtained by New Hampshire Business Review through a Right to Know request. Advance America, New England Auto and Pay Day Loans…
Single-family and condominium alternatives, such as manufactured homes and accessory dwellings units (ADUs), could go a long way toward helping ease New Hampshire’s housing crisis. But those options can have some obstacles, according to participants in a forum.
Efforts are underway in Manchester to fashion a version of the iconic board game "Monopoly" into a Who's Who and What's What of New Hampshire's largest city.
Business and event happenings around the state of NH
The Latest is a roundup of the comings and goings of the movers and shakers in NH's business community
Rising demand, transmission constraints, and the push for regional solutions
The Rugg family and the Town of Exeter have settled their long running land dispute, clearing the way for a developer to proceed with a housing development to be built on the Exeter-Newfields town line.
For nearly six decades, Paul Young has been a constant, if often understated, presence in public and government affairs, both in New Hampshire and beyond. Since founding Novus Public Affairs in 1996, Young has helped shape how businesses, nonprofits and political leaders communicate and connect with the world around them, leaving a mark on the state that is hard to measure but easy to feel.
When Emerson McCourt passed away in 2006, he left behind an extensive tool collection, meticulous instructions and a commitment to Great Bay Community College (GBCC) students that continues today.
UNH is home to the state’s largest school of nursing
