Got health problems? Blame the couch potato gene.

A few weeks back, I celebrated seven years with the New Hampshire Union Leader and Sunday News. It’s not an anniversary I would have thought much about except that LinkedIn shared that information with my network.

It was an offer too good to pass up. Southern New Hampshire University would team up with Salesforce to create a program that offers college credit for coursework completed on the company’s Trailhead platform.

If you have trouble deciding which local nonprofits you want to support, no one would fault you. The Granite State is home to 6,547 charitable nonprofits competing for donations, government contracts, service fees and other sources of income.

Coming soon to the Currier Museum of Art: The chance to spend some time with one of the Granite State’s funniest native sons for a behind-the-scenes look at what it’s like to be a professional stand-up comic.

Rob Katz is about to become a much more familiar name in New Hampshire winter tourism.

Charitable giving is big business.

Neil Armstrong. July 20, 1969. One small step. One giant leap.

Jobs, jobs, jobs and no one to fill them — at least not the people with the right skills.

Gossler Park Elementary School has learned a few things about leadership over the past four years. Change your culture and more kids — and teachers — show up in the morning.

That’s when it’s time to move on to the next adventure.

For Father’s Day, we asked some business and community leaders — and a couple of comedians — to share the best advice they received from their fathers. We also asked these dads what wisdom they are passing on to their children.

You can’t help but notice the Inc. 5000 plaques when you walk into Mainstay Technologies’ offices at the Sundial Center off Queen City Avenue.

Fred Bates would love to find a way to gather his family online for periodic reunions. 

The Small Business Administration’s annual Small Business Week spotlighted successful companies last week. It also honored the people and service providers who help those companies become viable.

It’s hard to find takers for a position that promises long hours and zero starting pay.

Chris Schleyer had to speak above the roar of passing cars and music piping from the pub across the road while he hosted a ribbon cutting Friday for Pearson’s Place Apartments.

John Hickenlooper’s path to the presidency has proven to be a much slower ride than his rise to mayor of Denver and governor of Colorado. When I first met him during my tenure as the editor of a business magazine there, he was a popular mayor about to handily win his first term as governor.

Over the more than three decades Joan Goshgarian directed the entertainment for the New Hampshire Business Committee for the Arts’ annual awards dinner, she selected different performers and artists to appear each year.

Take a look at the first five logos the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce has used for its branding over the past century, and the word “fun” does not come to mind. Just business as usual.

There's a classic “Far Side” cartoon by Gary Larson with the caption, “Ralph Harrison, king of salespersons.” 

Employers in New Hampshire have been living with an unemployment rate of less than 3 percent for more than three years. 

Donald Bolduc has learned a few things about humility over the years. Just ask his wife.

As Boeing rushes to address international concerns about the safety of its 737 Max jets, most Wall Street analysts are taking a wait-and-watch approach.

Before I met Sandy Ratliff, the English teacher I was paired with for West High School’s annual career day, I learned a few things about her.

Women who get an engineering degree will have plenty of career options but still could face a workplace where their male counterparts make more money.

As many as 700,000 fliers who live within 25 miles of Manchester-Boston Regional Airport choose Boston Logan instead of Manchester.

Raymond Cote had been retired for more than 20 years when he died Feb. 15, but he left a legacy of landmarks from his long tenure at Harvey Construction, the company he joined as a young man and ultimately would own.

Fresh off their 2018 championship, the Boston Red Sox are once again the best bet to win the World Series in 2019.

Nearly 20 years ago, the owners of Scott Electronics in Salem made a decision that caused employees to worry they would lose their jobs: They decided to build a factory in Mexico.

How much would you pay to visit a world where no one has gone before?

The Common Man family’s latest venture has its roots in a barn built nearly 180 years ago on a homestead in Canterbury.

Back in the early ’70s, the Boys (No Girls) Club was where my older brother and I spent many of our Saturdays. 

Don’t underestimate the power of gratitude, especially when it’s delivered to one of us baby boomers via that endangered species known as the thank-you card.

Over the holidays, most of us stuffed ourselves silly with cake, cookies, candy and pie, so the last thing on our minds right now is a doughnut. Dunkin’ Donuts knows that.