Mixed bag of bills await action after crossover
When New Hampshire Republicans captured the Legislature in November, many business organizations thought they were in for a legislative bonanza.

A life lesson in financial health
Murphy has often found professionals assume that since they have studied a certain subject, they must pursue it for life, and they go into crisis mode if their plans get disrupted due to a health issue,...

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BIA announces opposition to ‘divisive concepts’ bill
The Business and Industry Association of New Hampshire has joined the growing list of businesses and organizations opposing a House-passed measure now in the Senate that would prevent public schools,...

Mill City Park construction to start in July
The first phase of construction will be a timber-frame pavilion, parking lots and two sets of standing waves in the riverbed.

NHBR wins nine awards in New England newspaper competition
Bob Sanders won four awards. He took first-place honors for Business & Economic Reporting for his article on how property taxes are often the biggest tax burden facing New Hampshire businesses,...

Vaccine passports: Good idea or cause for concern?
Such a program could require proof of a Covid-19 vaccine for travel, eating indoors at a restaurant, attending theater or other public events.

WEST ENFIELD, MAINE
WEST ENFIELD, MAINE: Stored Solar LLC has acquired four offline wood chip power plants in New Hampshire and is attempting to bring them back online.

Report: NH ranks 7th in tech workforce concentration
With 10.3% of its workforce in the industry, New Hampshire ranks seventh in the nation when it comes to tech employment, and the sector is primed to continue growing in 2021,...

TAKE5
Professionals are requesting to ease into the transition, such as having the freedom to set preferred office hours; a personal, distraction-free workspace; employer-paid commuting costs; relaxed dress code; and employer provided child care..

Changes to unemployment taxes proposed in bill
Under current law, the rate of the unemployment tax imposed on employers can be lowered at the discretion of the Employment Security commissioner when the unemployment trust fund increases in size at different thresholds,...

IN BRIEF
The New Hampshire Business Committee for the Arts, in partnership with Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health and augmented reality company Membit, have combined to install original artwork at the D-HH’s new ambulatory surgical center at 100 Hitchcock Way at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Manchester.

THE BOTTOM LINE
The company made the announcement as part of a larger plan that was unveiled earlier this week to expand its national workforce by some 3,500, mostly customer-facing employees,...

ABOUT TOWN
1 For the fifth year in a row, E & J Gallo Winery and the NH Liquor & Wine Outlet teamed up to help raise funds to support the mission of the New Hampshire Food Bank.

A Youth Services Center plan
Among the measures recently passed by the New Hampshire House of Representatives was an action to close the Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester.

Who gets to belong?
But that’s not to say nothing has changed — between 2000 and 2018, the number of people of color in New Hampshire roughly doubled, growing from 61,600 residents to about 136,000,...

Self-awareness and your career
Psychology plays a significant role in the development of our careers. It starts with identifying our work interests when we are young and expands over time to include interpersonal relations,...

New Hampshire House OKs budget fueled by tax cuts
The New Hampshire House of Representatives passed a budget April 7 that might be a dream for businesses financially, at least when it comes to taxes,...

Should NH legalize historic horse racing?
There’s been a lot of talk about gambling in New Hampshire in recent years, from sports betting to keno and proposed casinos. Recently, historic horse racing has gained traction,...

Collaboration helps restaurant survive Covid winter
Landis and her business partner, Rebecca Hamilton, had already been running events in the greater Keene area. When they crossed paths with Jordan Scott,...

NH-based hotel group sues insurers over Covid coverage
The group — led by New Hampshire-based Schleicher and Stebbins Hotels (S&S), a hotel management company — filed the suit in June in Merrimack County Superior Court.

Will Covid migrants remain in New Hampshire communities?
And the Shelovs aren’t alone in this arrangement. Several schools in the Lakes Region have seen enrollments increase with new families during the pandemic Kenneth Johnson,...

New Hampshire nursing programs see more applicants
Since the early days of the pandemic, the sometimes unappreciated work that frontline nurses do has been brought to the forefront.

Why NH Business Review is part of a multiyear project on race and equity
Today, our state’s diversity is deepening, and it’s becoming even more vital to the health of our state’s economy, our institutions, and our cities and towns.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR
This bill seeks to enshrine in New Hampshire law a 2020 executive order issued by President Trump, since rescinded by President Biden, that would have barred federal agencies and the agencies they contract with from offering trainings promoting diversity,...

Right-to-work is right for New Hampshire
On Feb. 11, the Senate, under the leadership of Senate President Chuck Morse, passed Senate Bill 61 on a 13-11 vote. It now has come to the House,...

Right-to-work bill is damaging legislation
Right-to-work laws will mean weaker benefits and weaker wages for workers, and economic harm to households and families. New Hampshire workers know this.

Investigating and prosecuting hate crimes in NH
In New Hampshire, the Civil Rights Act enshrines Granite Staters’ right to be free from “actual or threatened physical force or violence” and “actual or threatened damage to or trespass on property” that is motivated by race,...

Can you spot the red flags?
We have now surpassed a year of dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic and, with that, a year of Covid-related unemployment claims.

Encouraging employee vaccines
With the Covid-19 vaccination rollout significantly increasing in pace just over the past month, herd immunity cannot be far from becoming reality.

NH’S FASTEST GROWING PRIVATE COMPANIES
Every month, NH Business Review publishes a list of leading companies and organization in various sectors as part of our effort to showcase the size and scope of the New Hampshire businesses and the economy..

Big changes could loom for estate and gift taxes
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont recently introduced the For the 99.5% Act, which, if enacted, would likely affect almost all taxpayers in one way or another, despite the title of the act suggesting otherwise.

How to get smarter about getting older
I fell in love with New Hampshire in the late 1980s. I was a reluctant transplant, driving up Interstate 95 from my North End apartment in Boston,...

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Q&A INTERVIEW
Minneapolis. January 6th. Defund the police. These are challenging times for law enforcement. Safety, transparency, fairness, leadership, prioritizing,...

THE LATEST
Nine industrial buildings in Massachusetts and New Hampshire totaling 700,000 square feet have been sold Boston-based real estate investment firm BentallGreenOak.

EVR Advertising promotes Mackenzie Fraser
Formerly the vice president of marketing for the Manchester Monarchs, Fraser joined EVR in 2018 as an account executive and was promoted to account director in 2019..

FLOTSAM&JETSAM
Here’s a thought. The NH House has passed a bill requiring students in the state’s university and community college systems to pass the 128-question U.S.