Author: Jeanne Dietsch

(Opinion) Legislators need to look deeper into lack of housing

Legislators recognize that the state needs more affordable housing to have a healthy economy.

(Opinion) NH’s future: A retirement home staffed by robots?

Projections show a dire need for more young families in the state

(Opinion) How the state recovered on the backs of towns

Isn’t it time the state shouldered its pre-recession responsibilities?

Preparing for the next recession

What are New Hampshire’s options when the next downturn arrives?

How to brighten the governor’s gloomy fiscal forecast

The governor’s budget address cast a pall over previous glowing revenue reports and offered a pessimistic view for the next biennium. The governor revealed that one-time repatriation and mergers accounted for $100 million of the year’s revenues. The June 30…

How to brighten the governor’s gloomy fiscal forecast

Sharing more with towns, investing in businesses will shore up NH’s future

Yes, universities are integral to our economic success

In the June 19 issue of NH Business Review, Commissioner Taylor Caswell of the NH Department of Business and Economic Affairs mapped out the new agency’s focus on innovative strategies to recruit talent and build our state’s strengths, including its…

Jails or universities: Which do we want?

A state that spends more on its prison system than its college system needs to ask itself why

NH needs to rebuild its pool of talented workers

For decades, we have been hearing the refrain, “Cut expenses, cut taxes; government is bad.” But what does data say? The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis shows that the highest gross domestic product growth rates in 2014 were in state…

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(Opinion) NH businesses: Pay attention to school enrollment

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No homes, no workforce

Housing continues to be the limiting factor to New Hampshire’s economic growth. That fact adds to the importance of a report the state issued in January that found housing production, as tracked by permits, reached a 20-year high in 2025.