New Hampshire's Business News for July 1
A look at today's top business headlines, including: Another source of PFC contamination, D-H takes over at state hospital, Antioch University axes boards, presidents, governor bans state government transgender discrimination, holiday traffic record seen
Coakley Landfill: yet another source of water contamination in New Hampshire The Coakley Landfill, a federal Superfund site located in North Hampton and Greenland, NH, is the fifth source of perfluorinated chemicals identified in New Hampshire. – NH PUBLIC RADIO
D-H reduces psych beds at hospitals Dartmouth-Hitchcock has decided to temporarily reduce the capacity of the inpatient psychiatric care unit at its flagship hospital in Lebanon and send some psychiatrists from there to the state-owned New Hampshire Hospital in Concord, where other providers are departing in the wake of a labor dispute. – VALLEY NEWS
Cancer center leader leaving Norris Cotton Cancer Center Director Mark Israel plans to step down at the end of September, according to officials at Dartmouth College and its affiliated medical system. – VALLEY NEWS
Antioch University terminates its presidents, boards of trustees The Antioch University system has terminated the boards of trustees — and apparently also the presidents — at its five campuses nationwide, including here in Keene. – THE KEENE SENTINEL
Governor bans discrimination against transgender government workers Gov. Maggie Hassan signed an executive order Thursday that forbids discrimination against transgender people in state government. It comes on the heels of a historic decision by the Pentagon to let transgender people serve openly in the military. – CONCORD MONITOR
Record travel numbers expected for Fourth of July weekend It's going to be a busy holiday weekend on the highways in New Hampshire and across the United States. – WMUR-TV
Hanover Co-op hires new general manager Come September, a former Vermont Foodbank executive from Montpelier will take over as general manager of the Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society. – VALLEY NEWS
For New England, it's going to be a year without local peaches Peach lovers are in for a bit of disappointment this summer, with New Hampshire’s crop of the fuzzy fruit almost entirely wiped out. – NH PUBLIC RADIO
ValChoice wins $120k prize in Microsoft BizSpark competition ValChoice, a Bedford-based company described by Forbes magazine as “CarFax for insurance,” has won yet another startup business competition, and this time it’s for $120,000 through the Microsoft BizSpark Plus Award. – NH BUSINESS REVIEW
UNH entrepreneurship program seeks participating businesses Paul College Entrepreneurship Internship Program teams seniors, companies. – NH BUSINESS REVIEW
The hazy, crazy days of summer Thanks to technology, the pace doesn’t seem to slow down. – NH BUSINESS REVIEW
Kuster introduces bill that would require labels on narcotics U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster announced a new bill Tuesday morning that would put labels on opioids to warn users about the addictive nature of narcotics. – CONCORD MONITOR
‘Capitol Hill Day’ takeaways Why members of Congress deserve their own Bill of Rights. – NH BUSINESS REVIEW
Veteran NH Union Leader reporter retires The fingers of State House reporter Garry Rayno will get a rest from their daily assault on the computer keyboard starting today, the first day of retirement for the veteran scribe. – NH UNION LEADER
Gatsas promises hands-on, ‘simple’ approach in bid for governor's office “Keep it simple. Get it done.” That's the slogan Republican Ted Gatsas is using in his campaign for governor. It’s a theme the Manchester mayor has turned to time and time again throughout his political career. – NH PUBLIC RADIO
Trump uses former light bulb plant as backdrop for NH visit Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump called for the U.S. to scale back its trade deals with foreign nations during an invitation-only speech in Manchester yesterday. Trump used a now shuttered light bulb factory as the backdrop. – NH PUBLIC RADIO
Donald Trump starts a trade war — with the Republican Party The rift involving the presumptive nominee deepened Thursday when Trump called out the U.S. Chamber of Commerce by name for the second straight day and pilloried the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, two landmark trade agreements broadly supported by the GOP. – WASHINGTON POST
MasterCard-Visa settlement with retailers is overturned The U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan said that the lawyers represented retailers with competing interests in the settlement, which was once valued at $7.25 billion, one of the largest in antitrust history. The judges pushed the suit back to a lower court. – THE NEW YORK TIMES
