When you examine political campaigns at the statewide and presidential level they have the look and feel of a thriving early-stage business. They are financed by a unique venture capital system of campaign donations of individuals and organizations...

Pain at the pump. High unemployment rates. Mortgage mayhem. Wall Street meltdown. Economic fears are permeating elections, from local races to the grand decision for president.

Over the next six months, many senior executives and managers expect an increase in spending in marketing, promotion, advertising and Internet technology and a decrease in spending in administrative costs and operations.

PORTSMOUTH — Leadership Seacoast is recruiting members for its 2009 program.

When it comes to providing health insurance for its employees, each year is a financial roll of the dice for Portsmouth-based PixelMEDIA.

There's nothing wrong with good, healthy competition, but we're not talking about Diet Coke versus Diet Pepsi here.

A snapshot of job trends in health care is in focus at Great Bay Community College, which receives more than 300 applicants for about 50 slots in its nursing program.

PORTSMOUTH — The Pease Development Authority is beginning to pay close attention to the small aircraft business at the Portsmouth International Airport at Pease. With the loss of Skybus airline service, the general aviation activity at the...

Ken and Doug Anderson, co-owners of Riverside Marine Construction, a family-owned business in Eliot, Maine, have been in an expansion frame of mind. Since they started their own marine construction business in the spring of 2007, they've added...

Jesse Stevens wasn't ready to retire after he sold his last business more than two years ago. He would be the first to tell you that he had seen just about everything a successful chief operating officer could see in 35 years of business.

Alex Bakman was a computer technology prodigy who caught the entrepreneurial bug and hasn't shaken it. The native of Ukraine is an avid hiker and chess player who calculates his moves carefully.

It would be easy to call Tangram 3DS a visualization and design solution company but it would be a limited definition for a company that is on the cutting edge of vibrantly digitally reproducing what has yet to be physically produced.

SEACOAST VENTURES: What does this Wall Street meltdown, from the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy to Bank of America's decision to buy Merrill Lynch, mean for elections? Does it have the potential to swing voters? Or is the electorate numb with this...

SEACOAST VENTURES: Health care continues to be an economic engine. By some estimates, one of every nine jobs is in this sector. How or why is this industry such an economic force?

CrystalVision of Newington, an award-winning Web design and development firm, announces the most recent addition to its team, Tina Levesque, who is handling administration and accounting for the firm. A native of Rochester, she had been living in...

Squamscott Community Commons, a nonprofit organization in Exeter, announces the addition of Thom Kraus, Tim Phoenix and Richard Ingram to its board of directors.

THE CARELLA CO. will facilitate and develop the materials necessary for a cooperative marketing program between Portsmouth-based Hideaways International luxury travel club and U.S. Bank, the issuer of Northwest Airlines WorldPerks Visa credit cards.

BUYSMART NH, is now offering exclusive real-estate services to buyers of luxury homes and waterfront properties on the Seacoast and in the Lakes Region. Founder and owner STEVE GRAY, of 51 Baycliff Road, Portsmouth, describes BuySmart NH as a truly...

I first ran into the inspired folks at Off the Wall a few years ago when as business editor of the Portsmouth Herald I came into work one day and found my desk overflowing with a gift basket of promotional products. The odd assortment of trinkets...

Going back more than two decades, I've written a lot about health-care reform. Despite a fair amount of knowledge about the amazing contradictions and complexities in the American health-care system, I can safely say that I don't know much. Like...