NH Business Notebook

On June 6, I’ll be moderating Leadership Unscripted, a forum that runs from 8 to 11:30 a.m. at the Rex Theatre in Manchester.

M&T Bank’s decision to finance an affordable housing complex for veterans in Franklin overseen by Easterseals NH was a natural progression for Tim Wade, the bank’s regional president in New Hampshire.

The first thing I did with my copy of “New Hampshire 200” after I brought it home from the office was to drill a hole through it. Now it had a utility function similar to the “Old Farmer’s Almanac,” the 232-year-old annual produced by our parent company, Yankee Publishing Inc.

Imagine undergoing training led by people whose sole mission in life is to do everything they can to ensure you fail, to push you to your limits until you break.

In my last column, I shared some anecdotes that help tell the story of the New Hampshire economy, but I would not make any important decisions based on the laments of my Lyft driver or rumors about remote working from skiers on the gondola at Loon. For data-crunching, we have people like Brian Gottlob, director of the state Economic and Labor Market Information Bureau.

A couple of weeks ago, the Chamber Collaborative of Portsmouth invited me to talk about the state economy during a forum that featured people who have a much firmer grasp on the data than I do.

Don’t ask Jack Middleton when he will retire. He doesn’t know how.

Workforce, housing, child care continue to top NH’s list of needs