SIDE BARS

Making good lawyers: New program at Franklin Pierce designed to be boot camp for law students
By Dan Touhy
Published:  November 2006

New Hampshire is home to one little law school, but it is an institution that packs a big wallop: A third of the lawyers in the state are graduates of Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord.

Making the grade: Career coaches help you on your way
By Susan Morse
Published:  August 2006

Career coaches can save businesses money, according to a Seacoast woman who has made helping others with their jobs her profession. For instance, a career coach helped the Deloitte & Touche law firm save $83 million in training and hiring costs by retaining 550 jobs, according to Jeanine Tanner O’Donnell of Hampton.

Commercial market roars, inventory rate drops
By Dan Tuohy
Published:  June 2006

Office space is at its lowest vacancy rate since the eco-nomic doldrums of 2001, a remarkable trend given an un-abated construction in pockets of New Hampshire. That snapshot of the market, a 2006 first quarter report prepared by Cushman & Wakefield, singled out Portsmouth and Manchester as the top performers in the region.

Slow Going: Contractors, road projects face soaring fuel costs
By Dan Tuohy
Published:  June 2006

With construction season in full hammer swing, contractors are feeling the same economic pressures as the commuting public - high fuel costs.

Two beaches look back to the future
By Deborah McDermott
Published:  May 2006

...in two beach towns on the Seacoast, business people and citizens have banded together in an attempt to go back to the future and to restore the resort communities to their former glory. Within a decade, and considerably sooner if they can make it so, Hampton Beach and York Beach could look markedly different than today.

Hiring foreign workers: The legal way
By Dan Tuohy
Published:  May 2006

The service was prompt and neighborly, with a smile impossibly huge. But the English was delightfully broken, a world away from Downeast, whenever Denisse Olivos asked patrons at Food & Co. in York for their order. Olivos, a college student from Peru, secured a four month visa to work here over the winter on what was her summer break. She is one of a few thousand foreigners who arrive in New Hampshire and Maine each year to top off a seasonal labor pool that is critical for the states’ tourism-dependent economies.

Reality check dealing with health insurance costs
By Dan Tuohy
Published:  April 2006

Companies seeking help with soaring health insurance costs might have better luck taking two aspirin and calling their elected leader in the morning. The bitter pill to swallow: there's no relief in sight. "Everyone wants a silver bullet, but there isn't one," said Charles M. Arlinghaus, president of the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy, a nonprofit based in Concord.

Biotech Bonanza: Seacoast is becoming a center for training and manufacturing
By Dan Tuohy
Published:  April 2006

The petri dish, it turns out, is a license to grow money. Sonia Sparks Wallman, director of the New Hampshire Biotechnology Education and Training Center, is taking advantage of nearly $6 million in federal grants in two years for the teaching lab and outreach efforts at the Pease International Tradeport.