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3 honored at 10th annual TechWomen awards

Tech leaders converged on Fidelity Investments’ Merrimack campus May 28 for the 10th anniversary of NH Tech Alliance’s TechWomen Connect and Awards, and in a first, one of the night’s three honorees was a middle school teacher.

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Tax deduction open to nonprofits going green on buildings

For 20 years, private businesses and for-profit enterprises have been able to claim a tax deduction to help lower the cost of green building infrastructure projects. But only recently have some public sector and tax-exempt organizations been granted access, too.

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Ayotte’s first State of State focuses on NH’s funding challenges

Kelly Ayotte took the stage at Saint Anselm College’s New Hampshire Institute of Politics on Wednesday, April 16, for the first time since her gubernatorial debate last fall, now as governor and following the NH House’s revisions to her proposal for the state’s next two-year budget.

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Co-ops create community, advisors say

Grocery stores, carpet and flooring outlets and an outdoor goods company seem like unconnected retail operations. As a group of business owners recently heard at an informational session in Manchester, they’re all sectors that include cooperatively owned companies with great success.

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Fighting chemicals with chemistry

This past summer, barrels upon barrels of firefighting foam were collected around New Hampshire and sent off to Ohio. But last month, remnants of the foam returned to New England for testing.

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NH women leaders share what’s powered their careers

Women in the workforce can succeed by finding the right connections and celebrating one another. That’s what the five women leaders featured at NH Business Review’s recent Powered by Women forum say when they reflect on their careers.

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‘Tell the true stories of real people’

Rowe shared stories from his two decades advocating for the trades, praised the Granite State for its manufacturing outlook and took questions from Governor-elect Kelly Ayotte and the public, over 4,000 of whom attended the event on NHTI's campus and remotely on Nov. 15.

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West coast cutaway

Only four states have no sales tax besides New Hampshire, and one of them, Oregon, has found a creative approach to promoting a stronger film industry. Theirs doesn’t need a production incentive supported by levying from consumer purchases, something Granite State entertainment sector figures have pondered workarounds for here.

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Craig’s mayorship, Ayotte’s finances topics of gubernatorial debate

The Oct. 24 gubernatorial debate hosted by the Greater Manchester Chamber continued in the same vein as the negative slugfest that has been playing out in debates and TV commercials for months, with each candidate attacking their opponent as much as touting themselves as they close in on the Nov. 5 election.

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Shot on location

Portsmouth-based filmmaker Chris Stinson, owner of Live Free or Die Films, was involved in the production of "The Holdovers," which he says he wishes could’ve been made locally. But when movie crews look toward the northeast, the Granite State isn’t in their sights.

Finding a place on the team

When it comes to hiring employees with physical and intellectual disabilities, their conditions require resilience over resistance. That was the message from several employers and disability consultants at NH Business Review’s annual DEI: From Talk to Action seminar.

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Sun Country Airlines receives glowing welcome from MHT

Sun Country Airlines is MHT’s fourth airline arrival since 2021, with its route from Manchester to Minneapolis and vice versa marking MHT’s farthest westward flight distance. It’s the second new airline to hit the Queen City airstrip this summer after Breeze Airways, and the fifth to announce service to the airport in the past four years.

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Q&A: Trim-Able creator Kyle Dimick

Kyle Dimick founded Trim-Able, a startup for his accessible nail trimmer for those who have difficulty reaching down to trim their nails themselves, due to motor and muscular conditions.

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Turning toward the future

A new partnership developing this year between Keene State College and the American Center for Optics Manufacturing is poised to offer career pathways in a highly technical field without a four-year college route.

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Company leadership gets candid

What do you get when you cross five business leaders of different sectors together with a stage and no script? Talk of basketball stardom, 19 cows and the campaign staff of a former Manchester mayor — all separate discussion points, of course.

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NH Public Radio podcast named Pulitzer Prize finalist

A podcast produced by New Hampshire Public Radio, "The 13th Step," was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize awarded by Columbia University, a first-ever recognition for NHPR, the radio network announced in a news release Wednesday.

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Moving Nashua forward: a ‘long-term project’

Nashua is “strong and growing,” Mayor Jim Donchess declared to an audience of the city’s chamber employees and member businesses in mid-March. But he says you don’t need to take his word for it – just look at the city’s recent accomplishments.

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NH residential real estate: ‘Still very much a seller’s market’

While home prices might be moderating in other parts of the country, the median price of a single-family house in New Hampshire rose to $550,000 in August, the second highest price point this current year. That price is just $3,000 more than the $547,000 recorded in July, but it is $47,500 more than January’s $502,500. The highest median price in 2025 was $569,450, recorded in June and the most ever recorded in the state.

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Think tank: Headwinds developing for NH economy

The unstoppable New Hampshire economy of the post-COVID years is running into economic headwinds of higher unemployment and inflation, a nonpartisan economic research firm said in late August. No definitive evidence points to a recession, the New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute said in an economic issues brief.