New Hampshire Business Review - March 12 2010

NHBR About Town

Amy Browning of Lindner Dental, Bedford, gets help from Anna Browning, age 4, of Manchester, to demonstrate good teeth brushing techniques to during Browning’s recent visit to Noah’s Ark Child Care Center in Manchester, as part of the Lindner Dental…

Paid time off a necessity

To the editor:Tens of thousands of New Hampshire workers do not have a single paid sick day they can use when they fall ill, or when their children need care. Faced with the prospect of losing pay, many have no…

N.H.’s 2009 export total down 18%

New Hampshire exports dropped to $240.4 million in December, bringing total exports for 2009 to $3.06 billion, down 18 percent from $3.7 billion in 2008.The December total was some $17 million less than $257.8 million in exports reported in November…

PSNH solar proposal sparks objections

A proposal to allow Public Service of New Hampshire to divert money it pays into a state-controlled renewable energy fund to build a solar-powered generation facility at Manchester’s capped landfill has generated controversy in the local alternative energy industry even…

Painting the election landscape by the numbers

At a recent Business and Industry Association luncheon, Andrew Smith, director of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center, presented a program, “Shifting Sands: Handicapping the November Election.”He reminded listeners that the Democrats won big in 2006 and 2008, which…

4 finalists in Start-up Challenge

Four businesses have been selected as finalists for the second annual New Hampshire Start-up Challenge, a business plan competition sponsored by Public Service of New Hampshire in partnership with the Manchester Young Professionals Network and Stonyfield Farm Yogurt.This year’s finalists…

‘Self-Reliance’ revisited

In his essay, “Self Reliance,” Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote something dear to the heart of all financial advisers: “The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and…

The inflationary spiral in grades

The best-kept secret in education today – from kindergarten to college, public schools to private academies – is how well students are doing. So well, in fact, that more students make than miss the honor roll. Some 55 to 65…

What LLC tax ‘fairness’?

The one thing attorney Mark Fernald got right in his recent opinion piece on the so-called LLC tax (“Here’s the truth about the ‘LLC tax,’” Feb. 12-25 NHBR) is that it’s not a new tax, just a change to the…