New Hampshire Business Review - March 4 2005

RE/CON Briefs

Landlords blame taxes for rent hikes Landlords in Laconia have told the Laconia Citizen that steadily rising assessments that have their tax bills going up 25-30 percent each year are among the major reasons local rental rates are becoming harder…

Design work begins on Blue Cross building

Engineers and architects from The H.L. Turner Group Inc. in Concord have begun working on the designs of the long-awaited retrofit of the former Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Hampshire building in Concord. The six-story, 120,000-square-foot structure has…

Last Word

One of the eternal battles that unite New Hampshire Republicans and Democrats is the preservation of New Hampshire’s status as the first primary state in the presidential nomination season. In-state and out-of-state pundits talk about our primary as part of…

Targeted aid plans perpetuate funding ‘gap’

A number of proposed targeted education aid plans under consideration claim to help “needy” or “property-poor” communities by providing additional funding to them and not providing funding to “property-rich” communities. The New Hampshire Citizens’ Voice Project analyzed the effect of…

Flotsam & Jetsam

Just visiting His name is on everybody’s short list of potential GOP presidential candidates in 2008, so it won’t take anyone by surprise when former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani shows up in New Hampshire a couple or 50 times…

SB 110 under the knife

Gov. John Lynch and a bipartisan group of 13 state senators have announced a compromise that they say will reform the controversial Senate Bill 110 insurance law. The governor at a press conference said the compromise will reverse the spike…

Insecurities

The state Bureau of Securities Regulation is seeking at least $17.5 million in penalties from American Express Company, alleging its American Express Financial Advisors unit illegally rewarded financial advisers who steered clients toward underperforming in-house mutual funds. The bureau said…

Cook on Concord

In the last couple of weeks, the temporal and immediate crises have taken a back seat to passages of more historic moment. Two significant state lawmakers and citizens have died. Their effect on New Hampshire and contributions to our state…