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Students Get Lesson in Personal Finance

By Amy Quinton on Tuesday, November 22, 2005.

Half of all high school seniors have ATM cards.
30-percent use at least one credit card.
But only 20-percent of teenagers have had any formal instruction in personal finance by the time they graduate.
An eighth grade math teacher in New Hampshire has found a creative way to teach math and give students a financial education.
New Hampshire Public Radio’s Amy Quinton reports.

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What are Private Equity Funds

By David Darman on Tuesday, November 22, 2005.

Private equity groups have been in the news recently in New Hampshire.

Last week, a private equity group that owns Car Component Technologies in Bedford announced it was closing down the company, putting more than 500 people out of work.

And two others recently announced they're going to buy Enterasys...a once high flying technology firm that has shed 1,800 jobs this year.

We wanted to find out just what are these groups of investors are up to.

So we called Professor Fred Kaen.

He teaches Finance at the University of New Hampshire's Whittemore School of Business and Economics.

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NH Prepares for Pandemic

By Doug MacPherson on Tuesday, November 22, 2005.

NEW HAMPSHIRE OFFICIALS SAY THEY’RE PLEASED WITH THIS WEEKEND’S DRILL TO TEST THE STATE’S ABILITY TO CONDUCT A MASS VACCINATION.
18-HUNDRED PEOPLE AT CLINICS IN MANCHESTER, COLEBROOK, AND PORTSMOUTH WERE VACCINATED AGAINST THE COMMON FLU. MEANWHILE, THE EXERCISE ALLOWED HEALTH OFFICIALS TO TEST HOW THEY WOULD VACCINATE THE ENTIRE STATE, IN THE EVENT OF A PANDEMIC. NEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO CORRESPONDENT DOUG MACPHERSON ATTENDED THE PORTSMOUTH CLINIC. HE FILED THIS REPORT.

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