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August 27, 2012

Gov. Candidate Kevin Smith Sees Big Benefit From Campaign Finance Loophole

Ed. Note: This story was reported by contributor Brian Wallstin. No candidate in the 2012 gubernatorial race benefited more from a major loophole in New Hampshire’s political-finance regulations than Republican Kevin Smith. State election law limits corporate campaign contributions to $7,000 per election cycle, the same as individual donors. But nothing in the law prohibits multiple limited-liability companies controlled by […]

August 22, 2012

Worker Training Grants Announced

Ten companies are being awarded grants this month from the New Hampshire Job Training Fund. The grants total about $200,000 and will be matched by each of the recipient companies.

Without Lynch, Casino Legislation More Likely To Pass

Imagine a high school cafeteria with painted concrete walls and linoleum floors. Then switch out the lunch-tables for blackjack and poker tables — and you’ve got Rockingham Park, the race-track turned gaming room at the epicenter of New Hampshire’s debate over expanded gambling. Just about every year for the last 15 years, the legislature has […]

August 17, 2012

Pension Privatization Update: House Committee Scopes Out Financial Services Firms

Today, a legislative committee investigating pension privatization issued a request for information from companies that manage retirement funds. After pension reform legislation failed to pass last term, House Speaker O’Brien requested that a committee convene over the summer to craft new legislation for next term. The committee will likely propose to move all new public […]

August 15, 2012

Hassan Campaign: All Ice Cream, All The Time

Eating ice cream seems to come with the territory of campaigning in New Hampshire — but with nine ice cream socials scheduled across the state this month, gubernatorial candidate Maggie Hassan is going all out. The Hassan campaign has three socials down, six to go, scooping a total of about 1000 scoops of ice cream […]

August 13, 2012

N.H. And Canada Say ‘Together Is Better’

Business owners and policy makers from New Hampshire and Canada met in Concord today to participate in the New Hampshire-Canada Economic Development Forum. House Representative Ray Gagnon of Claremont helped organize the event. He believes the conference represents a new paradigm in international economic relations.

August 9, 2012

Severed From State, Is McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center Ready For Lift Off?

When celebrated Concord resident and high school teacher Christa McAuliffe died in the Challenger explosion in 1986, an out-of-state donor offered $500,000 to build a monument in downtown Concord. As then-mayor Jim MacKay remembers, the city declined. Instead, the state built a planetarium. Today – 26 years after the state opened the McAuliffe Planetarium — […]

July 30, 2012

Aug. 1 Brings More Preventive Care For Women

On Wednesday the Affordable Care Act will require insurance companies to cover eight new preventive health services for women, with no copays. These provisions supplement a series of preventive care requirements already instituted when the ACA passed two years ago. And while some states already require insurance plans to cover some preventive services, these requirements […]

July 26, 2012

Affordable Housing, Community Theater And Broadband Expansion All Benefit From CDFA Tax Credits

Sixteen New Hampshire organizations are receiving a total of $5.4 million in tax credits from the Community Development Finance Authority for this coming fiscal year. The winning projects were announced Wednesday. Awards include funding for upgrades to Portsmouth’s Prescott Park Pavillion; the conversion of an abandoned Nashua mill into affordable housing units; the rebuilding of […]

July 20, 2012

Liveblog! At Google’s Get Your Business Online Event

Today, about 200 New Hampshire small business owners are attending a series of three classes in Hooksett, during which they set up their own website, then learn how to leverage it, all for free. Walking up the sidewalk to Southern New Hampshire University’s dining hall — where Google is launching a year-long Get Your Business […]