A lack of language accessibility
The two co-owners are well-known in the community. Other barbers usually come to them for professional advice.

Business tallied some wins in past legislative session
From a business perspective, the past legislative session was not the best of times nor the worst of times. But it didn’t start out that way.

With bill signing, NH convenience stores can offer keno
New Hampshire convenience stores can now profit from keno, thanks to one of the 39 bills Gov. Chris Sununu signed into law this month.

New state law will require cities and towns to report cyber attacks
House Bill 1277 mandates towns and cities to report all occurrences of cybersecurity attacks to the state Department of Information Technology as soon as they occur.

Manchester rents increased by 1.8% in June, report finds
Since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, Manchester rents have risen by 40.5 percent, according to the report.

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Legal actions target two contaminated sites
Just as the state reached a $500,000 settlement with Georgia Pacific to reimburse it for its investigation of a Superfund site at the former Brown Paper Company mill in Berlin, the U.S.

For third year in a row, NH Gives raises over $3 million
“It is just so wonderful to see this kind of generosity being sustained in New Hampshire,” said Kathleen Reardon, CEO of the Center.

Firm charged with export violations in shipments to Russia, Ukraine
The charges, filed June 6 by the U.S. attorney in federal district court in Concord, concern exports from 2016 to 2019, before Russia’s current invasion of Ukraine began in February of this year.

EXETER
EXETER: Beth Israel Lahey Health and Exeter Health Resources Inc. have signed an agreement that will make the local healthcare system part of the Massachusetts-based hospital group.

Keene State prof collaborates on app to help people with autism communicate
Professor Larry Welkowitz, chair of psychology at Keene State, and pianist Robert Taub created SpeechMatch,...

TAKE 5
More than 6 million U.S. teens, or 36.6 percent, had a paying job for at least part of last summer, marking the highest teen summer employment rate since 2008,...

ABOUT TOWN
1. Manchester community members Ellie Cochran and Charlie Goodwin are the recipients of this year’s Davison Award for Philanthropy,...

THE BOTTOM LINE
HYPERTHERM ADDS ‘ASSOCIATES’ TO NAME

Man in the middle
When the nomination of John Formella as attorney general came before the Executive Council, he faced a volley of questions from Councilor Cinde Warmington.

Misuse of the bell curve
Today’s use of the model assumes there are an equal number of people performing above and below average, with small numbers of people with very low performance and very high performance.

Littleton Coin CEO details exorbitant costs of Wayfair ruling
More than a half million dollars. That’s how much it has cost Littleton Coin Company to comply with the U.S. Supreme Court’s Wayfair decision since 2018,...

An exorcism at the Union Leader
When this writer started to be interested in New Hampshire politics in the 1960s, and for 30 or so years thereafter,...

NH Food Bank fights hunger from all angles
At the NH Food Bank, we face that reality every day, too. We distribute millions of pounds of food each year to more than 400 partner agencies statewide.

The era of cheap American natural gas is simply over
In the past two weeks, New Hampshire residents learned that most of our electricity bills will skyrocket in August.

What can we do to stop mass shootings?
Remember Timothy McVeigh blowing up a federal building in Oklahoma in 1995 with a bomb he created using easily obtained materials? In seconds, he killed 168 people.

Teamsters, BIA: Make renewal of federal offshore leasing program a priority
As leaders of Teamsters Local 633 and the Business & Industry Association of New Hampshire, we understand labor and business sometimes appear to stand on opposite sides of issues.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
State laws and regulations have been an impediment to fair competition by renewable fuel companies and must be changed immediately.

FROM THE GROUND UP: The Factory on Willow: 'If you restore it, they will come'
Remember the movie, “Field of Dreams” with Kevin Costner and James Earl Jones? An Iowa farmer is summoned by voices from the Great Beyond to build a baseball stadium in his corn field.

Can you lead with empathy?
I have written before that a positive work climate starts at the top with leaders investing time in people and showing that they care.

Claremont attorneys sue state over school funding
Andru Volinsky and John Tobin, who represented the Claremont School District and four others, along with Natalie Laflamme,...

A change in New Hampshire’s real estate market? Not yet
As home prices in New Hampshire continue to break records, the president of the NH Association of Realtors doesn’t think the market — which is heavily weighted in favor of the seller — is about to change.

Deadline is Aug. 19 for State School redev. plan bids
Those submitting proposals are required to provide their company’s experience in developing projects of similar size,...

In 4 counties, homeownership comes at a price
Buying and keeping a home in Rockingham County will cost you more than half of your annual income, according to a new analysis of real estate sales data from the second quarter of 2022.

INSIGHTS INTO WEALTH MANAGEMENT
At one point or another, many of us have asked ourselves questions ranging from “have we saved enough to purchase our first house?” to “can we afford college tuition?” to “have we saved enough to retire?”.

INSIGHTS INTO WEALTH MANAGEMENT
Understanding the available annual gift tax exclusion and other exclusions from gift tax is important when planning on the best use of your lifetime estate and gift tax exemptions.

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Q&A INTERVIEW
Growing up, I saw music and dancing every day. One leader started a youth group, and he saw the vision or something in me.

THE LATEST
MacDowell, the nation’s first artist residency program in Peterborough, has named four new members to its board of directors: Jeannie Suk Gersen,...

Weeks named pres. of MVSB
Marcus Weeks, who began his banking career in 1995 as a student-teller for Meredith Village Savings Bank’s Center Harbor office, has been named president of the bank,...

FLOTSAM&JETSAM
GOP state rep Keith Amnon of New Boston raised an eyebrow or two th’other day when he tweeted about HB 1503,...