NH Republicans seek to add to their ‘20 gains
Shortly after the 2020 election when the GOP regained its majority in the Legislature, Jason Osborne, vice chair of the Committee to Elect House Republicans,...

The burdens of extreme heat
And like other social problems today — such as the lack of affordable housing or access to healthy foods — not everyone suffers equally when it comes to the effects of heat.

Forcivity again tops Inc. 5000 list for New Hampshire companies
The dozen were led by Forcivity, a Manchester-based tech firm that continues its impressive growth. For the second year in a row, Forcivity, which provides consulting services to businesses that use the Salesforce platform,...

HOPE for NH Recovery files suit against Facebook for withholding $12K in donations
The lawsuit filed April 20 in Hillsborough County by the peer support and recovery center in Manchester, alleges that Facebook held, for over a year,...

Tax data shows hospitality industry is making gains
Other areas of New Hampshire’s economy are harder to measure by state tax data alone. Business tax revenues in July 2021, for instance, are down compared to July 2020,...

NH BUSINESS REVIEW
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Launch of third phase marks completion of DRA revenue management revamp
Granite Tax Connect allows taxpayers, tax professionals and DRA customers to manage multiple accounts, file and amend returns, view balances, schedule payments,...

HAVERHILL
HAVERHILL: eX2 Technology, the Nebraska company chosen earlier this year to build out a broadband network in the town of Bristol,...

Is new restaurant staffing app an answer for desperate employers?
“Business owners are facing an extreme hiring challenge due to low unemployment and unreliable online recruitment tools,”...

TAKE 5
one in 20 surveyed – 5% – have mandated a vaccine and 63% said they are encouraging, but not requiring, a vaccine..

Portsmouth rejects celebrity chef’s plan to open new restaurant
Celebrity chef Bobby Marcotte, known for his appearances on the Food Network and for winning national culinary awards,...

BIA names Juvet its interim president
Juvet began his career with the Arizona Automobile Association in 1981, later moving to New England, where he worked as manager of government for the AAA in Massachusetts and then as director of marketing and public relations for the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester,...

Bill to ease broadband expansion in New Hampshire communities becomes law
“This legislation will accelerate the timeline in which cities and towns can establish communications district planning committees,...

THE BOTTOM LINE
The company has leased 208,000 square feet at One Bon Terrain Drive, which will mean the addition of 12 new positions, the company said.

ABOUT TOWN
1. Congresswoman Annie Kuster, D-2nd Dist., joined executives of Hitchiner Manufacturing and ReVision Energy to tour the Milford facility and discuss its solar...

Report from Vacation 2021
We took in the incredible beauty of the Croatian coastline, where mountains come down to the sea, and rocky beaches meet the clear blue waters. Crowds flocked to the towns and beaches, restaurants and attractions.

Time for some real talk on DEI
As a workforce culture consultant and an expert in diversity, equity and inclusion, I have helped many businesses struggling to recruit and maintain minority employees.

Exiting employee obligations
Former employees are ambassadors of a company’s name and brand — therefore, the goal is to have a positive departure (or as much as is possible). Key to this goal is ensuring that departing employees are properly compensated.

Millennium Running is a business on the move
“If you’re going to make it happen, you’ve got to do the work,” says John Mortimer, owner of Bedford’s Millennium Running,...

‘Liberty Republicans’ and an evolving GOP
“The Libertarians are not Republicans,” Sununu said flatly. “They have their own party, their own place. Libertarians are not Republicans. Okay? I know a lot of them like to sign up as Republicans and pass themselves off as Republicans,” he continued.

Employers alone won’t solve the workforce shortage
With Labor Day right around the corner, employers in most every sector might mark the holiday by reflecting upon what we don’t have: labor.

How renewable energy legislation prevailed
If HB 315 were a living thing, it would be a kind of happy Frankenstein. The bill was born an evil little monster whose effect would have been to kill New Hampshire’s community power market in its cradle.

Who profits from specialty pharmacies? Insurers
Attorney Donald Pfundstein’s recent article, “Hospital Specialty Pharmacies: Follow the Money,” (July 16-29 NH Business Review) clearly missed the mark on the facts and challenges...

A climate corps to address a crisis
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), living on Planet Earth is a perilous privilege indeed.

Foreign qualification doesn’t mean international
The term “foreign qualification” is a common source of confusion for business owners. The term “foreign” in this context does not refer to international, but rather,...

Private sector v. public sector and COVID-19 vaccine mandates
There is a growing consensus among labor and employment lawyers that private sector employers can, with limited exceptions, mandate that their employees get the COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of employment.

H-2B visas in the hospitality industry and elsewhere can help with hiring shortages
With the NH unemployment rate under 3%, NH businesses are having difficulty finding skilled and unskilled laborers to join their workforce.

New law clears way for ‘supported decision-making’
When a person with a disability is deemed unable to manage important life decisions, state law has allowed one option: appointing a guardian to make those decisions.

A date with your retirement destiny
New Hampshire frequently tops national lists of great places to retire, in part due to the state’s strong showing on wellbeing indexes, low crime rates and access to physicians — and also because of the state’s lack of a sales or income tax.

A corporate benefits parable
Some make all the right decisions related to their personal financial planning, and consequently accumulate significant wealth.

Renewed eviction ban adds complications
The changes in county transmission rates reflect the increasing number of cases nationally and the prolific spread of the Delta variant. But the numbers also carry additional significance.

20% of condo units at former Cinemagic will be workforce
Torrington Properties plans to demolish the shuttered movie theater on Lafayette Road and build the new condo development on the same site. Developers need to provide 20% workforce housing in order to get the density bonus to allow them to build five stories at the site.

How would the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill benefit NH?
New Hampshire’s two U.S. senators are hailing the Senate’s passage earlier this month of a $1.2 trillion infrastructure spending bill that they say will pay big dividends to New Hampshire, from improving bridges,...

Discussions continue on proposed Berlin hotel
At a recent meeting of the Berlin Industrial Development and Park Authority, Chair Mike Caron said there have been discussions with several hotel companies, including Best Western and Microtel,...

Bristol seeks to attract businesses with new website
Coates said Bristol has seen an increase in investment in privately held properties in town, including 16-20 Central Square, which has been transformed from mill buildings to residential apartments.

State poised for federal broadband windfall
The infrastructure bill that recently passed the U.S. Senate contains $65 billion for broadband — a sum lawmakers say is enough to provide universal access to the service that has become essential for telehealth, education and business.

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Q&A INTERVIEW
A quarter of a century ago, Laura Knoy, a reporter at National Public Radio, left Washington, D.C., to return to her native New Hampshire and created “The Exchange,”...

THE LATEST
Eastern Bank Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Boston-based Eastern Bank, recently announced an additional $2 million in Covid-19 support to increase last-mile vaccination outreach and access.

Coffey awarded global honor for sales leadership
Tom Coffey, senior vice president of fleet sales at Hooksett-based Merchants Fleet, has won a Globee Award as part of the eighth annual 2021 Sales and Customer Service Excellence Awards,...

FLOTSAM&JETSAM
Simply attempt to fathom why the GOP members of the Legislative Fiscal Comm. spent time actually discussing the possibility of withholding approval of $3 million grant for “critical access hospitals,”...