New Hampshire Business Review - March 16 2007
Senate OKs home contractor regulation
The Senate passed a bill Thursday that would regulate home contractors, despite objections that the bill requires contractors to take a course that is thus bar only offered by the Home Builders and Remodelers Association of New Hampshire. The home…
Region has sharpest rise in income disparity
Income inequality in New England is rising at the highest rate in the nation, according to a study by the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire. The study fund that, between 1989 and 2004, the region experienced the…
Main Street director takes D.C. post
Kathy La Plante, longtime Director of the New Hampshire Main Street Center, is leaving her post next month to take a job with the National Trust for Historic Preservation. La Plante, the organization’s only director since its founding some 10…
Deadline nears for SBA disaster loans
Businesses affected by last spring’s flooding have one more month to submit applications for federal Economic Injury Disaster Loans from the Small Business Administration. In a statement the agency said the filing deadline for the loans is April 23. Eligible…
Environmental Power’s first facility nears completion
The pending completion of Environmental Power Corporation’s first biogas production facility and 2006 year-end results will be among the topics discussed in an upcoming business update call scheduled for Tuesday, March 27. According to a statement released by the Portsmouth-based…
