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A couple of potential candidates that didn't pan out:
There was an Eagle Publishing in Vermont which evidently owns a bunch of papers around the NorthEast but in September 2009 it became Eagle Printing and Publishing LLC according to the November edition of this local paper, The Commons. I also can't find a web site for them which would seem odd if they had the expertise to set up RedHampshire. Here's a quote from Kevin Landrigan's column in November 2009 where he described them as "the company linked to the Pennsylvania media group that emerged as the suitor after its previous ownership sought bankruptcy protection four months ago" and wrote about the NH Executive Council giving them a $250,000 state guarantee loan. They bought The Citizen of Laconia a couple of months ago.
There's also an Eagle Publishing in Hampshire in the UK but that seems even less likely.
Eagle Publishing, Inc., headquartered in Washington DC, describes itself as "America's leading conservative publishing company" and was founded in 1993. It owns Regnery Publishing, the magazine Human Events, and RedState.com which they bought in 2007.
Both the RedState and RedHampshire websites appear to use the same content management system, Wordpress.
In site policy documents on both websites the exact wording "X, subdivision of Eagle Publishing, Inc." is used. The same phrasing seems to have appeared in the past on Regnery's website. Site policy documents on both RedState and RedHampshire exhibit the problem of "smart quotes" being converted to "’", which typically would happen when pasting text from Microsoft Word or something of that sort.
The "Terms of Use" page on RedHampshire is at the path "/terms-of-use/". The "Terms of Service" page on RedState is at the path "/tos/". The text of both legal documents is identical. On RedHampshire when talking about future updates to the terms it actually says "These changes will be posted at http;//www.RedHampshire.com/tos/." - a page that does not actually exist on the RedHampshire site.
Here's the article published on RedState when Eagle bought it: "RedState & Eagle Publishing: Growing The Conservative Movement Online" (Google cache, the live copy doesn't seem to be working right now.)
For an example of the sort of people associated with the company: Donald Paul Hodel, a Secretary of Energy and Secretary of the Interior in the Reagan administration, executive and board member of a whole bunch of companies including lots of oil and gas and power companies, former President of the Christian Coalition, former Executive Vice President of Focus on the Family, and an executive of Salem Communications Corporation (Christian Radio, Conservative Talk, News Talk) has been on the board of Eagle Publishing for at least a few years now. From Wikipedia, "In 2006, his company FreeEats.com/ccAdvertising was found to be disseminating political push polls on behalf of the "Economic Freedom Fund".
Pat Sajak of Wheel of Fortune is also a member of the board. For details on other board members see the SourceWatch link.
NYTimes - in 2007 five authors sued Eagle Publishing for screwing them out of royalties by discounting their books.
I found mention of what might be a libel lawsuit against them that I think took place in Texas: Langston v. Eagle Publishing Company, but I couldn't find out anything more about it; maybe someone with access to a legal database could if it sounds interesting.
One last thing - does anyone know Tom DeRosa or Matt Suermann from outside of RedHampshire? Are they actually local people? Are they even writing from this state or are they working in a cubicle in a giant office building somewhere else in the country?
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