New Hampshire Business Review - September 25 2009

The keys to writing the right resume

Editor's note: This is the start of a series of articles focusing on the job-search and application process. In this day of networking -- online, in-person and otherwise — job-seekers still need one fundamental element when looking for a new…

Q&A with: Bus company exec Jim Jalbert

Jim Jalbert says he's "very passionate about transportation and bus." It would be hard to argue that point. Jalbert, who's president of the Portsmouth-based bus line C&J, also is co-owner of Boston Express, the bus company C&J operates with Concord…

N.H. business-tax 'friendly,' overall

With no sales or income taxes, New Hampshire has placed among the states in the country with the least burdensome business taxes. However, the picture is clouded by other financial hits against small businesses in the Granite State, according to…

Learn the lessons of Vietnam

Somebody needs to say this: both the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are pointless. They are a death trap and a financial sinkhole. The lives of our soldiers are too valuable to be wasted there. The Iraq War lacks any…

Override Lynch's med marijuana veto

Unless you hid under a rock all summer, you know most Americans don't want government interference in their health care. Democrats and Republicans may have their differences, but there is universal agreement that decisions regarding medical treatments must be exclusively…

NHBR About Town

More than 300 New Hampshire youth soccer players attended a free soccer clinic led by Olympic gold medalist Abby Wambach, right, and hosted by MVP Health Care. Standing with Wambach and items donated at the clinic are, from left: Tori…

NHBR celebrates business excellence

The achievements of several impressive New Hampshire businesspeople will be celebrated at NHBR's seventh annual Business Excellence Awards festivities. The evening — which begins at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 7, at The Event Center at C.R. Sparks in Bedford —…