Pan Am Railways sale: What’s in it for NH tracks?
The prospective sale of Pan Am Railways, the largest regional railroad in North America, running across 1,700 miles of track that connects New England to the entire continent,...

The long road to expand NH broadband
The towns of Dublin, Harrisville, Rindge, Walpole and Westmoreland, which voted last spring in favor of 20- to 30-year...

Yelp says hundreds of NH businesses have shut down since Covid
Before the pandemic, Vesey says the Botanica just celebrated its first birthday, and he was looking ahead to a busy indoor spring season.

New Hampshire sets rules for taxing PPP payments
All of the grants businesses have received or will receive from the state and federal governments are taxable by the state of New Hampshire,...

UNH study finds inequity in pandemic-related job loss and recovery
People of color and women have experienced higher unemployment than whites and men during the Covid-19 pandemic, and women of color and Latina immigrants have the highest jobless rates,...

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CONCORD
CONCORD: New Hampshire restaurants statewide can resume indoor dining at full capacity, Gov. Chris Sununu said.

Analysis: ‘Rich’ Gen X’ers are moving to NH, too
But while New Hampshire is nowhere near as popular a destination for Gen X’ers as states in the South and West, it, Maine and Delaware are the only Northeastern states to crack the top 20 on a list compiled by personal finance technology company SmartAsset.

Owner of New Hampshire’s biggest malls trying to meet Covid challenge
Simon, whose holdings include the Mall of New Hampshire in Manchester, Mall at Rockingham Park in Salem and the Pheasant Lane Mall in Nashua,...

TAKE5
Eighty-eight percent of employees currently working from home due to Covid-19 would not want to risk returning to their workplace if there were rising cases of Covid-19 in their area..

Jack’s Pizza focuses on employee wellness
Jack’s Pizza, with locations in Alton and Pittsfield, is not just a pizza shop. Rather, says Kathy Menegozzi, Jack’s director, “We use the business of pizza...

20 New Hampshire firms named to 2020 Inc. 5000
Named the 157th fastest-growing U.S. firm was Forcivity of Manchester, which provides software consulting and system integration services to clients in the manufacturing, high-tech and nonprofit sectors..

THE BOTTOM LINE
Biotechnology entrepreneur and Dartmouth engineering professor Tillman Gerngross has raised $50 million in venture capital for his newest company, Adagio Therapeutics,...

ABOUT TOWN
1. Franklin Savings Bank made a $2,500 to the Liberty House’s Mission Renovate & Restore campaign, which aims to raise $250,000...

Covid’s effect on technology
In the initial chaos of Covid-19, everyone had to adjust quickly to new ways of interacting with technology. The pandemic impacted every area of life from work, leisure and community involvement to parenting and school.

You can’t make this stuff up
• President Trump, appearing on Fox News (where else?) said he was withholding money from the U.S. Postal Service in order to keep it from being able to deliver mail-in ballots.

Supply chain managers: the pandemic’s unsung heroes
Lancaster works for Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health, a system that has more than 1,800 providers across the state and is the largest private employer in New Hampshire.

Making a case for unions
We’ve heard in recent years the oftused terms “wealth inequality” and its subset, “income or wage inequality.” Quantifiable evidence showing a multidecade trend toward wealth inequality has been presented by left-leaning economists...

Teacher pay disparities: ‘penny wise and pound foolish’
Every year around mid-summer, the dreaded courtesy phone calls between school superintendents begin. One district unexpectedly loses a teacher to a higher-paying district,...

Reaching out to a remote workforce
We are a digital society, and many have been balancing flexible work schedules that mix working from home, other remote locations and, more recently, a possible or occasional office appearance.

Meeting our obligation to vulnerable students
Districts quickly put in place plans to create continuity of learning for students who would now find themselves learning from home. This was a pivot that we should all be proud of.

What is the net effect of net metering in NH?
The board members wanted to know why my company, an employee-owned benefit corporation that brings solar to schools and nonprofits, was proposing to put panels on only half their spacious roof.

Paul McEachern’s tireless fight for us all
During two out of the four times Paul McEachern ran for governor of New Hampshire, he steadfastly refused to take the pledge of no new taxes. He felt the total reliance on property taxes was an unfair tax system and that it really amounted to an income tax in disguise.

Legal safe harbor would protect businesses, boost economy
While there’s agreement over many of the provisions of the latest “Phase 4” coronavirus relief package being constructed in Washington,...

Cleaning up, and down
“In essence, the whole world didn’t know how to move forward,” said owner Pablo Fleischmann. Then the company, and many of its customers, slowly moved forward. “I kept the business limping along. There was such a hesitation. Now there seems to be a rush.”.

Three NH homes win annual green building competition
Whether it’s building in a flood plain or designing a smaller footprint, homeowners are working with architects and builders throughout new Hampshire to construct creative, energy-efficient homes that meet their unique challenges and vision for a comfortable home.

Badger goes 100% solar with 486-kilowatt array
One of the largest rooftop and groundmount photovoltaic arrays in the region, it is expected to generate approximately 600,000 kilowatt-hours of clean solar electricity per year,...

Diversity in the workplace
Creating a diverse and more inclusive workplace can lead to constructive discussions and better outcomes, according to professionals prioritizing resources toward that effort.

Environmental enforcement in the pandemic
The world faces an uncertain, and for some, insecure future amid the evolving Covid-19 pandemic. For the regulated community, the combined effects of changing economic and operational...

More data sought on NH arrests
The commission also recommends police agencies dedicate an officer to community policing, continue to recruit more officers from minority communities and provide training on pronoun inclusion related to transgender and gender-nonconforming populations.

Law firms help boost civil legal aid
The partnership will bring attorneys from Mclane Middleton, sheehan Phinney Bass & Green, and rath, young and Pignatelli to work at NHLA on housing and benefits cases, helping low-income families avoid homelessness and remain financially stable..

Can you make high-risk employees telework?
Q. Our company wants to protect those workers who may be at higher risk for severe illness if they get Covid-19. As we in NASHUA crease REGION our numbers in the office, may we require higher-risk employees to telework in order to avoid exposing them to the virus?.

Juvenile defense ‘gravely undervalued’
An assessment newly released by the National Juvenile Defender Center says legal representation for young people in New Hampshire is “gravely undervalued,” leading to inadequate access to attorneys and unnecessary rates of probation and court involvement.

New state property tax formula proposed
The Commission to Study School Funding got its first look this week at how a statewide property tax could be applied to fulfill the state’s constitutional obligation to fund an adequate education with taxes equal in valuation and uniform in rate throughout the state.

Merger creates affordable housing development power
A Maine-based regional nonprofit housing and community development corporation is expanding its footprint across northern New England with a merger with a similar Vermont organization, with the goal of expanding access to capital for the creation of...

Kane acquires giant distribution operation near manchester airport
The kane Company Inc. of Portsmouth and a fund managed by Dra advisors llC, a new york-based investment firm, have teamed up to acquire The Manchester logistics Center, a nearly 725,000-square-foot distribution and logistics facility near Manchester-Boston regional airport in Manchester.

NH gets $39.5m in federal affordable housing aid
The funding, announced by all four members of new Hampshire’s congressional delegation, includes $19.3 million through the Community Development Block Grant program, which can be used to expand community health facilities, child care centers, food...

THE LATEST
U.S. Cellular has promoted Evan Travers to store manager at its West Lebanon location at 285 N. Plainfield Road...

Criminal defense lawyer joins Shaheen & Gordon
Vogelman, who has more than 45 years of trial experience as a criminal defense lawyer, is the only fellow of the American Board of Criminal Defense Lawyers in New Hampshire. For over 30 years, he has trained law students and lawyers in trial advocacy nationwide.

Q&A INTERVIEW
Lee Morin, a University of New Hampshire graduate and manchester native, was aboard the international space station in 2002. He currently works at the Johnson space center,...

FLOTSAM&JETSAM
No further proof is needed of the loooong road the GOP under Trump has in order to travel to reach out to voters of color than this photo taken earlier in Aug. at the opening of the Black Voices for Trump office in Tallahassee, Fla.