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Concord school district secures grant for youth mental health services
The Concord School District will receive nearly $1 million to support school and family mental health services.
CJ’s Great West Grill in Manchester set to close
CJ’s Great West Grill's landlord of South Willow Street, in Manchester, property plans to lease to new tenant
A career fighting for NH housing solutions
Dean Christon to receive Business & Industry Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award during their annual dinner and awards celebration
Going the distance in the North Country
Going the distance in the North Country with finances, mentorship programs, jump-start small businesses and entrepreneurs
Friends of Aine turns tragedy into hope
MANCHESTER — Christine Phillips sits on a couch inside a beautiful Victorian house turned home of Friends of Aine’s Center for Grieving Children & Families. Christine, who co-founded the nonprofit agency with her husband David Phillips, talks about a dream…
NH AG concludes investigation into 2021 Portsmouth election
The New Hampshire attorney general’s office concluded former Portsmouth mayor Steve Marchand was responsible for creating and distributing derogatory ads aimed at then-Mayor Rick Becksted and four former city councilors during the city’s 2021 election cycle.
UNH researchers awarded close to $3m to develop sustainable in-space manufacturing
As of November 2022, the U.S. Space Surveillance Network reported 25,857 artificial objects in orbit above the Earth from discarded rockets and satellites.
NH Tech Alliance announces 2023 Innovation Summit agenda
The NH Tech Alliance recently shared the program outline for their 2023 Innovation Summit, presented by Big Network.
Anthem rejoins health partnership fold
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Hampshire has announced that it’s going back to the drawing board to help build a tiered health-care product with some of the state’s largest purchasers of health insurance. “This cause is so worthy,…
Making the rounds ...
• You’ve to have some sympathy for Kelly Ayotte. She quit her post as the governor’s legal counsel last year only a few of months after taking the job to become deputy attorney general. Now she’s back to working as…
Thank you for your ‘welcome’
Fending off any attempt to criticize Governor Benson for his relationship with the wannabe settlers of the Free State Project, the governor wanted to make it clear the other day that while he’s glad to help them build their bandwagon,…
Daydream believers
Early summer is the time for Red Sox slumps, beach novels and political storytelling. Considering that F&J covers neither sports nor literary accomplishments, here are two of the summer’s best-selling New Hampshire political rumors so far. 1. After winning in…
Free to be you and me
At its much-publicized 2004 Liberty Dinner last month, the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance -- a group that describes itself as a “non-partisan coalition” that supports “increased individual in New Hampshire” - didn’t only hear from Governor Benson and Jason Sorens,…
DMV forces Derry to quit Web registration
The town of Derry has removed its new on-line motor vehicle registration program from its Web site in the wake of a warning issued by state officials. The program was shut down on June 28 after a representative from the…
Give jokes a chance
We now know the extent of U.S. Sen. Judd Gregg’s legendary sense of humor. He doesn’t like Jane Fonda jokes. During a visit to Dartmouth College, the senator was given of a computer science lab to see the latest developments…
There are no Web viruses in the open source world
If I was the conspiracy-minded sort, I’d swear that Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds sneak into their underground labs at night to whip up Web viruses. Those lords of the open-source software movement -- Stallman over the border in Cambridge,…
General aviation industry has a ‘hidden’ impact
Many industries in New Hampshire are ”below the radar.” They’re businesses that for one reason or another are not very visible or are hard to reduce to mere statistics. One of them is the general aviation business. A general aviation…
Advise and consent
Richard Brothers, a 45-year-old Campton resident who’s described as a “part-time health care adviser” to Governor Benson, has decided that he wants to give it another shot in trying to retire his fellow Republican, Sen. Carl Johnson of Meredith. Brothers,…
Outsourcing: the good, the bad and the inevitable
Outsourcing is either the smartest business practice since the development of the assembly line, allowing companies to shave double-digit percentage points off their bottom lines, or the most repugnant, directly responsible for exporting good-paying U.S. jobs overseas. “Outsourcing is the…
There are no Web viruses in the open source world
If I was the conspiracy-minded sort, I’d swear that Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds sneak into their underground labs at night to whip up Web viruses. Those lords of the open-source software movement -- Stallman over the border in Cambridge,…
Anthem rejoins health partnership fold
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Hampshire has announced that it’s going back to the drawing board to help build a tiered health-care product with some of the state’s largest purchasers of health insurance. “This cause is so worthy,…
Partnerships can close the nursing shortage gap
In the fields of health and human services, there is no more critical workforce issue than the serious shortage of nurses, a shortage that will worsen as the baby boom generation ages and retires. In recent years, the University of…
What exactly is the Executive Council for?
We have been critical here before about the way the governor and Executive Council conduct their business -- or, rather, our business. It’s possible, we realize, that the councilors show more curiosity when discussing issues in private than they do…
If Benson’s leading, there’s no one following
Almost daily, the governor demonstrates his complete lack of understanding as to how the governmental process works. His naiveté has grown from “forgivable miscue” to “embarrassment.” The governor is exactly where he was two years ago - wandering aimlessly in…
General aviation industry has a ‘hidden’ impact
Many industries in New Hampshire are ”below the radar.” They’re businesses that for one reason or another are not very visible or are hard to reduce to mere statistics. One of them is the general aviation business. A general aviation…
The song has ended, but the melody lingers on
Continuing ramifications of actions taken or not taken by state government highlighted the coming of July. On the school-funding front, actions taken by the Legislature in secretly negotiating and then passing a completely new school-funding plan resulted in a lawsuit…
