Editor's note: This series of articles follows the progress, challenges and successes of businesses and other organizations in New Hampshire as they implement workplace wellness programs.Pemi-Baker Community Health in Plymouth started implementing a workplace wellness program in 2009. Like many…
The Republican candidates (or most of them who were invited) debated issues on Oct. 11 at Dartmouth College in Hanover. This was an interesting location for such a debate, there being a scarce number of GOP voters in that college…
Leesa A. Smith is president of Freudenberg North America Limited Partnership, coordinating services affecting more than 6,000 employees at 15 companies. She was recently appointed the North American (and only female) representative to the international firm's global executive team.NHBR interviewed…
Complaints against payday and other high-interest small lenders nearly doubled in New Hampshire after they were effectively banned from the state in July 2010 -- a statistic that supporters seized on Wednesday in moving forward a bill that would bring…
Republican members of the House Commerce Committee bucked their leadership Thursday and voted 15-5 to endorse a health insurance mandate requiring insurance companies to cover people who use naturopathic practitioners as primary care physicians.If the bill is approved, the insurance…
I believe there is a certain kind of character that does not do well in politics: self-made millionaires.Tough, impatient and independent, these are people who can make a great success of themselves in business, but mostly fail when they enter…
Claims that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme are just part of a continuing right-wing campaign to smear our most successful, and most popular, government program.Social Security was created in 1935 to solve a problem: millions of Americans were living…
According to the U.S. Department of Education, almost 27 percent of children in America already have access to the school of their choice. As recently as 2007 -- the most recent year of available data from the National Center for…
Unless you live completely off the grid, you cannot have missed the impressive advertising campaign for the Northern Pass project, which proposes building 180 miles of electric transmission lines through New Hampshire to bring Canadian electricity to New England.These daily…
To the editor:As a New Hampshire business owner committed to preserving a healthy environment, I wanted to offer my thanks to Congressman Charlie Bass for rejecting the TRAIN Act in the House last week. As we witnessed in the GOP…
Single-family and condominium alternatives, such as manufactured homes and accessory dwellings units (ADUs), could go a long way toward helping ease New Hampshire’s housing crisis. But those options can have some obstacles, according to participants in a forum.
Efforts are underway in Manchester to fashion a version of the iconic board game "Monopoly" into a Who's Who and What's What of New Hampshire's largest city.
Business and event happenings around the state of NH
The Latest is a roundup of the comings and goings of the movers and shakers in NH's business community
Rising demand, transmission constraints, and the push for regional solutions
The Rugg family and the Town of Exeter have settled their long running land dispute, clearing the way for a developer to proceed with a housing development to be built on the Exeter-Newfields town line.
For nearly six decades, Paul Young has been a constant, if often understated, presence in public and government affairs, both in New Hampshire and beyond. Since founding Novus Public Affairs in 1996, Young has helped shape how businesses, nonprofits and political leaders communicate and connect with the world around them, leaving a mark on the state that is hard to measure but easy to feel.
When Emerson McCourt passed away in 2006, he left behind an extensive tool collection, meticulous instructions and a commitment to Great Bay Community College (GBCC) students that continues today.
UNH is home to the state’s largest school of nursing
