New Hampshire Business Review - April 11, 2025

April 10, 2025

Business People Handshake After Talking About Contract Signing.

Contract toolkit: essential contract terms

Allison Kuepper,

Regardless of size or industry, businesses usually have contracts. Contracts help parties document their expectations, rights and responsibilities, helping ensure that business moves forward as expected.

DEI under Administration 47

Sean S. LaPorta,

The Trump administration has gone on to quickly issue further orders relating to diversity equity and inclusion (DEI) and various departments within the administration have begun to issue guidance regarding such directives

North Branch completes Gammon Academy build with collaborative spirit

NH Business Review Staff,

When Easterseals NH looked to build a 27,000-square-foot facility to serve its students, it turned to North Branch Construction to ensure that the building fulfilled its vision and met its needs.

Meredith real estate agent captains centralized site for state’s foreclosure auctions

Trisha Nail,

A real estate agent and investor in New Hampshire since 2003, Richard Dale-Mesaros often combed through more than a dozen websites and some newspapers around the state to track foreclosure and foreclosure auctions across five counties.

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Is technology an expense, or a strategic enabler?

Marc Berthiaume,

Many organizations treat technology as a commodity, focusing only on cost and maintenance rather than leveraging it as a strategic enabler for growth, efficiency and innovation.

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This probably won’t be your last job

Stanley H. Davis,

What happens when your employment relationship is no longer working for your employer or for you? That could happen any time, forcing you to launch a formal job search. Stay ready and begin before the beginning.

(Opinion) Enrollment decline, funding challenges for higher ed

Opinion,

Plymouth State University is better positioned than any other state-supported college in the country to deal with the enormous demographic shift in college-age students.

(Opinion) Foster youth need security and the benefits they deserve

Opinion,

For youth turning 18 and aging out of New Hampshire’s foster care system, this transition is often marked by financial uncertainty, instability and, for too many, homelessness.

Rule of law vs. power

Brad Cook,

President Donald Trump provokes a fundamental battle about the future of our country.

Reinvention and resilience

Carol Duhart,

At a time in life when many people start looking toward retirement, I chose a different path and launched Elyon Marketing, a Manchester, NH-based company specializing in brand strategy and content creation for small businesses.

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Federal and state housing legislation wrestle with affordability crisis

As Granite Staters eye ever-increasing purchase prices for a single-family home, state and federal policy makers wrestle with solutions that create more housing supply. Among them is bipartisan federal legislation on housing that is being held hostage by President Donald Trump’s fixation on a bill that would require voters to provide proof of citizenship with such documents as U.S. passports or birth certificates.

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Manchester and Nashua: Best bang for the buck in NH

Two New Hampshire cities are among the 10 best-run cities in the country, according to a WalletHub analysis of U.S. communities where residents get the most bang for their taxes. Manchester was rated No. 3, while Nashua was close behind at No. 5., based on a “Quality of Services” score that WalletHub developed using 36 metrics across six key service areas — financial stability, education, health, safety, economy and infrastructure/pollution.