New Hampshire Business Review - November-30 2012

November 30, 2012

NH Business Review Staff

How to BRACE yourself for bad news

Linda Varrell,

Adopting an incident communication plan is essential for organizations

Getting off the data storage treadmill

Tim Wessels,

Disk drives are relatively cheap, but storage systems and networks are not

Don't buy the sales job -- we're not broke

Arnie Alpert, Robin Aura Kanegis,

We already have all the resources we need to thrive as a nation

We let Democrats define the terms of our defeat

Carolyn McKinney,

When Democrats set the terms of the 2012 campaign for state and federal offices, Republican leaders blew their horns about jobs and the economy and counted on their position of strength and the glaring weaknesses in their enemy’s lines to…

New Hampshire courts are in crisis

Lee C. Nyquist,

Examples of ‘justice delayed is justice denied’ can be seen around the state

N.H. is poised to legalize medical marijuana

Matt Simon,

2013 brings hope in the form of a new governor with a proven record of supporting medical marijuana patients

Why should we care about the menhaden

Dave Shirley,

The fate of one tiny fish can determine the future health of the Atlantic Coast ecosystem

Q&A with Bankers Association President Christiana Thornton

Bob Sanders,

Christiana Thornton, a former aide to former U.S. John E. Sununu and a lobbyist for the New Hampshire Bankers Association, took over as the association's president in September 2011, replacing the organization's longtime president, Jerry Little. NHBR caught up with…

New CRDC loan for high-tech firm is a first for New Hampshire

Kathleen Callahan,

A growing Manchester technology firm is the first New Hampshire company to secure a loan through a new U.S. Small Business Administration pilot program, administered locally by the Capital Regional Development Council. Helix Design Inc., a full-service industrial design firm…

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