In-home care for your aging parent: Is it time?
It is a reality that every adult with a living parent finds difficult to face - your mother or father is aging and may no longer be able to care for themselves and their home the way he or she…
New Hampshire Business Review - May 6 2011
‘goodgood manchester’ community platform connects the Queen City
For one night only, an otherwise vacant storefront in downtown Manchester was filled with paintings of pears, masks hanging from strings, black-and-white sketches and a crowd of people to admire them all. Held April 14, the free White Flag Gallery…
Seabrook relicensing request brings up old and new issues
Thirty years ago, the battle over the Seabrook nuclear power plant became a symbol of the national debate over nuclear power. While one plant at Seabrook was eventually completed despite a massive national civil disobedience campaign, it came at a…
Medicaid cuts take a scalpel to hospitals' bottom line
How might the quarter-billion dollars in Medicaid cuts in the New Hampshire House of Representatives' budget affect individual hospitals? Let's count the ways.• Concord Hospital hopes to become more efficient, make less of a surplus and pass costs on to…
What the world can learn from Bretton Woods
The ghost of systemic economic collapse in 2008 and 2009 loomed over the recent INET conference at Bretton Woods like the dirt-crusted snow on the White Mountains. The Institute for New Economic Thinking's second official meeting at the site of…
‘Green’ firms in Granite State get help
Nobel laureates in physics aren't always renowned for their down-to-earth insight, but Steven Chu, U.S. Secretary of Energy, demonstrated some April 28 when he heard heating oil described as New Hampshire's most popular heating fuel. "I wouldn't say 'popular'," quipped…
Spring brings steady but slow growth
The first quarter over and spring is here. Everything is on the up and up. Right? If we ignore the huge government deficits and the stopgap funding measures for the federal government and the threats that the real fights will…
A little labor history
The governor of Wisconsin makes it seem as if public collective bargaining has ruined America. His position and the response to it have received national attention. Here in New Hampshire, a number of things related to unionized state workers have…
Peak Organic brews up solid business
In a saturated beer market, these local and organic ingredients helped to distinguish Peak Organic from its competitors
Q&A with Baker Hill Golf Club's Mark Ashton and Jim Jankowski
Nestled among the foothills between Mount Sunapee and Lake Sunapee lies a New Hampshire gem. The golf course at Newbury's Baker Hill Golf Club has just been rated the top course in New Hampshire by Golf Digest for an impressive…
