New Hampshire Business Review - Aug. 30, 2019

August 30, 2019

Jeff Feingold

Flooring business finds benefits in going solar

NH Business Review Staff,

Londonderry firm earns praise for installing system at office building

From the Ground Up: SNHU Millyard Parking Garage

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TFMoran provides civil/structural design for parking complex to serve Millyard growth

Granite Staters need relief from Rx greed

Todd Fahey,

For decades, Big Pharma has raised drug prices with impunity. Here in New Hampshire, the average annual cost of brand-name prescription drug treatment increased 58% between 2012 and 2017, while the annual income for Granite Staters increased only 13%. Prescription…

President is providing hope for kidney patients

Alex M. Azar,

President Trump has promised to fight for the forgotten men and women of America — those whose needs and suffering have been too often unheeded by their government. One forgotten group in healthcare is the millions of Americans with some…

Thanks for the great reporting

Letter to the Editor,

To the editor, Many thanks to NH Business Review and journalist Bob Sanders for the excellent, in-depth article about the future of fossil-fueled electricity plant operations in New Hampshire. Digging into the details of forward capacity payments and new ISO-NE…

Minimum wage veto creates opportunity

Sarah Scott,

In New Hampshire, we have a lot of reasons to be optimistic about the direction our economy is going. Record low unemployment, record high workforce participation, record high revenue from business taxes, and top economic growth in the region make…

No workforce relief for NH’s healthcare sector

Maggie Pritchard,

Budget stalemate is disrupting and threatening patients, providers

New England takes the lead on noncompete reform

Adam M. Hamel,

The moves are part of larger nationwide trend to impose restrictions

Careers that create value

Bill Ryan,

Does what you do add prosperity to society as a whole?

Assessing NH’s new noncompete law

David McGrath,

Effective Sept. 8, all noncompete agreements entered on or after that date will be invalid and unenforceable for “low-wage” employees in New Hampshire. The new law primarily defines “low-wage” employees as those earning hourly rates less than or equal to…

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