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Getting a taste of the ‘juice’
I’m standing on the floor of the new DraftKings at The Brook in Seabrook on National Football League Sunday Week 2, counting the sportsbook gambling options.

Where did the $40m in NH Covid contracts go?
Such is the wide range of services businesses are being hired to perform under Covid-related contracts.

Mass. construction firm tried to bribe an inspector, state says
The DOL, pushed in large part by the efforts of Joseph Donahue, New Hampshire business representative of Interior Systems Union 352, targets independent contractors as laborers,...

Startup’s technology battles Covid aerosol transmission
The Bristol-based company, Air Cleaners Inc. — formed by airflow experts from the semiconductor clean room and data center industry — was created to address aerosol transmission of pathogens using the experience...

Dr. Barbara Jobst
Dr. Barbara Jobst, co-director of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Epilepsy Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon,...

NH BUSINESS REVIEW
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Moderna takes another big step in Covid-19 vaccine trial
The announcement is another sign that vaccine trials are moving into their final phase before production can begin. Once begun, a key role in that production will be played by Lonza Biologics’ plant at Pease International Tradeport in Portsmouth,...

CONCORD
CONCORD: Gov. Chris Sununu and Attorney General Gordon Mac- Donald are expressing confidence that the U.S. Supreme Court will back New Hampshire in its newly filed lawsuit against the state of Massachusetts over imposing income taxes on employees working from home in New Hampshire due to Covid-19.

Concord Hospital CEO: LRGHealthcare a natural fit
As LRGHealthcare filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Concord Hospital submitted a purchase and sale agreement reached by the two nonprofit corporations to purchase LRGH’s...

Mt. Sunapee expansion part of 5-year plan
The question of whether Mount Sunapee should expand has long been controversial. Proponents describe it as necessary for the continued operation of the largest ski area in southern New Hampshire,...

Bankruptcies hit another new low in October
Indeed, despite the high unemployment and the phase-out of both federal and state assistance to individuals and businesses, the number of bankruptcies has remained low for seven straight months, starting in April, just after the pandemic struck the state.

Hassan bill seeks to boost R&D investment
Hassan and Young said their bill would restore incentives for longterm R&D investment by further helping companies to invest in developing new, innovative products by allowing the companies to fully deduct R&D investments each year..

TAKE5
40% of respondents said they have had both a political disagreement at work and that a coworker has tried to persuade them to change their political party..

HUD awards $12.3m to address lead remediation
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded more than $12.3 million in grants to the New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority,...

Report shows decline in workbased insurance coverage
Some 4,000 Granite Staters who work for small businesses may have lost workplace-based health insurance during the pandemic, but the individual Obamacare market appears to have taken up much of the slack, according to a preliminary report released by the NH Insurance Department Friday morning.

THE BOTTOM LINE
Rod Harl, president and CEO of the company, said the expansion in Ohio will create about 60 new jobs, at least initially. The $30 million, 280,000-square-foot facility is about twice as large as the Milford location, he said.

ABOUT TOWN
1. Outdoor Pride Landscape & Snow Management, a Manchester-based, family-owned commercial management firm, made a $100,000 donation to the Solinsky Center for Cancer Care at The Elliot in Manchester to support cancer treatment.

Risk management and leadership
Those who run commercial businesses, nonprofits, not to mention governmental entities, need to remember that the unexpected happens from time to time. Remember Donald Rumsfeld? Not the most likeable of men.

A building crisis
“There was (already) reasonable demand for good housing — the sort you’d experience in any strong or up market,” said Peter Powell, owner of Peter W. Powell Real Estate in Lancaster.

Taking advantage of Covid
Last year, the offices they were occupying became untenable, and they were forced to move. They found a deal on larger offices but, on reflection, decided to go for less space and make themselves remote-capable,...

Translating military service rank to civilian positions
This chart from Eversource Energy’s Veterans Business Resource Group provides a list of likely skills veterans develop at each military service rank and the comparable civilian position in regard to entry-level, management and leadership qualifications.

An electoral history lesson
When the New Hampshire Union Leader endorsed the Democrat for president — the first time in a century — it’s obviously not a normal political year. A review of New Hampshire’s historical voting patterns may be helpful,...

An airport project in Puerto Rico
So on April 12, CUSA got another contract, for $180,000, to finish the work, and his crew finally made it back out there. The project was classified Covid-19 because the “contractor had to temporarily leave rental equipment at the worksite when the project was suspended due to Covid-19.

Uncertainty remains for PPP loan recipients
In May, most businesses that received loans under the federal Paycheck Protection Program were pleased with the cash infusion as they struggled with the loss of revenue from the Covid-19 pandemic,...

Protecting domestic violence survivors during the pandemic
These are uncertain times, and too many people are struggling. Every day I hear from small businesses, school officials and our mayors about the enormous challenges they are facing due to the pandemic.

Utility regulation gone awry: a crash course
For most folks, administrative law is all of the law. You’re unlikely to be the party to a lawsuit, but you probably have a driver’s license, you might need a building permit someday and you will certainly want to collect Social Security.

Nashua’s new EnVision Center a step toward self-sufficiency
EnVision Centers were conceived from the idea that HUD’s true measure of success is not how many individuals we can get onto our assistance programs, but how many we can lift out of government assistance and set on the path to self-sufficiency.

Mental health awareness during Covid-19
The federal and state governments have expanded coverage of telemedicine and relaxed certain regulations to address barriers for people seeking services.

Solar picks up steam in New Hampshire
The Chinook Solar project is being developed by Florida-based NextEra Energy, which also owns the Seabrook nuclear power plant. But the company is also a big investor in solar, with arrays in 26 states, including one in Vermont and two underway in Maine.

Sprague Resources joins zero-emission heating oil effort
Sprague Resources, the publicly traded, Portsmouth-based wholesale energy supplier, is teaming up with a Maine-based company that is planning to build a biorefinery that would produce a patented zero-emission biofuel made from 100% ethyl levulinate,...

Municipalities seek PUC community power rules
“It’s often not the cities and towns, that have limited resources and time, who are able to voice their perspective, and it’s really those communities whose perspective is most important when implementing these rules,” Herndon told New Hampshire Public Radio.

Pandemic increases healthcare worker burnout
He dealt with burnout earlier in his career, an experience marked not just by job dissatisfaction but by mental exhaustion, difficulty sleeping, aches and pains,...

UNH digs deep by testing wastewater for Covid signs
“Sewage sampling can be a valuable surveillance tool because it can provide an early warning to possible infection hot spots on campus and help identify areas where the virus may be present but not detected in individuals because they aren’t showing symptoms,”...

D-HH addresses racism and public health disparities
D-HH is a member of the Healthcare Anchor Network, a national collaboration of healthcare systems, which has released a “Racism is a Public Health Crisis” statement. Collectively the organizations employ more than a half-million employees across 45 states and the District of Columbia.

CALENDAR
The event will cover the dangers of nuclear war and proliferation, necessity for robust international legal frameworks governing nuclear weapons and why the U.S.

Q&A INTERVIEW
New Hampshire’s affordable workforce housing problem has been around as long as the equally intractable problem of education funding.

THE LATEST
Companies selected for the list have been evaluated by an independent research firm on key measures in various categories, including compensation, benefits, employee.

Carbon named 2020 Judge of the Year by CASA NH
“Judge Carbon’s record of advancing children’s issues in New Hampshire is unwavering,” said Marcia Sink, president and CEO of CASA of New Hampshire.

FLOTSAM&JETSAM
Even before E-Day was over, there was growing disgruntlement over the performance of one 44-year SOS Billy Gardner, at least judging by the list of peeps who are either putting their own names out there as possible Org.