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NH Retail Lumber Association and the Annual Legislative Issue of Lumber Co-Operator, July/August 2014

TNC: Sustainable Oyster Reefs Answer to Estuary Woes

Efforts to rebuild oyster reefs filling critical link in estuarine food chain By Melissa Proulx Image courtesy of The Nature Conservancy   Members from The Nature Conservancy and the University of New Hampshire have taken the next step in using oysters to … more →

NHBR: Businesses Seem Pleased with 2014 Legislature

By Bob Sanders of the NH Business Review Published: 06.13.14 This was the year when the New Hampshire Legislature actually did something – a lot of things, actually – and it wasn’t harm, as far as the business community is concerned. Lawmakers … more →

Dupont Group President Honored

  Last Friday March 7th, the New England Board of Higher Education honored former University System of New Hampshire Chair Edward C. Dupont Jr., when the regional organization held its 12th annual New England Higher Education Excellence Awards celebration at the Boston … more →

Burton’s Detail Oriented Approach Is One We’ll All Miss

by Charlie Arlinghaus As originally published in the New Hampshire Union Leader October 30, 2013. Ray Burton’s political legacy is unusual and unique. Burton made his mark over almost forty years as a public figure like no other in an institution that … more →

Utility of the Future in an Evolving US Power Market

From Breaking Energy: By Jared Anderson on October 10, 2013 at 3:30 PM The utility business model is changing from one of large, centralized generators that own and run entire power systems – from plants, to transmission, to distribution – to one … more →

Lawmakers see a change in PSNH’s attitude toward divestiture

But utility insists there has been ‘no change in position’ By Bob Sanders New Hampshire Business Review Published: 09.30.13 Has Public Service of New Hampshire had a change of heart when it comes to divesting its electrical generation assets? Several key lawmakers … more →

NHBR: Q&A with Lobbyist Ed Dupont

Dupont is a Concord lobbyist, former Senate president and member of several state boards and commissions By Michael McCord New Hampshire Business Review Published: 10.04.13 ‘I’ve had a desire to work for the betterment of the state,’ says Ed Dupont, a Concord … more →

Hassan creates state government efficiency commission

CONCORD — Gov. Maggie Hassan created by executive order Wednesday a 19-member Governor’s Commission on State Government Innovation, Efficiency and Transparency, charged with making recommendations for modernizing state government, improving efficiency, measuring the performance of state agencies and improving transparency. The panel … more →