New Hampshire Business Review - March 4 2005

Efforts to place liquefied natural gas terminals along the East Coast have run into opposition, but that has not stopped companies from continuing to seek approval to build the facilities. LNG is expected to fill an anticipated U.S. shortfall by…

To the editor: On behalf of the Bow School to Career Partnership, our sincere appreciation is extended to the many business leaders who partnered with the Bow School District to offer Junior Achievement programs to our students. These business leaders…

In passing a bill last month to make it more cumbersome for independent voters to vote in a primary, the leadership of both political parties in the New Hampshire House of Representatives have declared that nearly 40 percent of New…

Amidst great bipartisan fanfare, the Lynch education funding plan was rolled out last month. Among the accolades that have been showered upon it are that it is a “new paradigm,” that it is a “permanent solution” to the Claremont case,…

The American Jobs Creation Act - signed into law last October by President Bush — imposes new restrictions on a wide range of compensation arrangements. The act adds a new Section 409A to the Internal Revenue Code that applies to…

Patriotism. We’re all for it, aren’t we? Some New Hampshire legislators think if the state forces all students to just recite the Pledge of Allegiance (with its not uncommon recitations of “for Richard Stands, invisible...”) an obedient army of patriots…

Q. I’ve got a great idea for a new business and I can’t wait to get started. What’s my first step? A. The fortunes of any firm are determined by its lead entrepreneur’s ability to focus his or her proprietary…

Getting publicity for your business, product or services doesn’t have to be hard — and it can actually be fun. I know that many editors will tell you that most news releases end up in the round file, but if…

The Patriots and the Red Sox are at the top of their respective sports. How did they get there? Practice, practice, practice makes champions and championship teams. Do you ever practice or are you so good at what you do,…

Parents often ask me what they can do to get their child into a good college. They ask the question as if it was a secret pass code, and as an insider I have the answer. When I’m asked this…