Author: Jeanne Dietsch

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…

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…

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…