NH Business Notebook

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