Q&A with Technology Entrepreneur Mark Galvin
"At heart, I am an engineer, so my interest is to see my products proliferate. I want to see them end up in as many people’s hands and make as many people happy as possible"
New Hampshire Business Review - October 26 2007
World-class craftsman rebuilds career in N.H.
Grigory Likhter is a remarkable man: an entrepreneur, a world-class wood craftsman, a furniture builder, interior designer and contractor. His life has taken him from his native Moscow to New Hampshire — not once, but twice. Now, having survived a…
Adding ‘dependent’ to coverage not as simple as it sounds
In the next few weeks, New Hampshire employers and insurance companies will get their first glimpse of the impact of a new law that allows most unmarried young adults under 26 years old to sign on to their parent’s workplace…
New England: many voices, one region
Seventeen members of the New England House delegation, including Congressman Paul Hodes and Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter, recently came together in Boston for a unique morning at Suffolk University Law School. Hosted by the New England Council, the congressional delegation had…
Make Pentagon waste a campaign issue
What do Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama and Rudy Giuliani have in common? They’re the leading presidential candidates of the two major parties. But they have more in common than that. All choose not to offer specifics on waste…
Mandates coverage keeps people uninsured
Like most states, New Hampshire struggles with the issue of affordable health insurance coverage for its citizens. Roughly 150,000 people across the state lack health insurance. Of this number, a large group, approximately 75,000, are working-age individuals or their families…
It’s time to regulate tobacco
In New Hampshire, nearly 1,900 children a year - approximately 37 per day - become regular smokers. In our state alone, we spend $564 million on health-care costs directly caused by smoking. Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death…
Take small steps for a better energy future
It wasn’t long ago that energy was something most people took for granted. Gas was plentiful and cheap, renewable energy was something only “tree huggers” talked about and global warming was an exotic theory. How times have changed. These days,…
House panel kills 36% payday loan cap
A New Hampshire House subcommittee voted Oct. 18 against a 36 percent cap on payday and title loan interest rates, endorsing instead an interest rate nearly 10 times higher that had been proposed by the industry as a “compromise.” The…
Wheels of justice turn slowly in Foss trial
Even if everything goes according to schedule — a tall order in any court system — the civil trial of Steven Foss on charges that he looted his own company won’t be taking place for another year. Earlier this month,…
