New Hampshire Business Review - Dec. 05, 2025

December 5, 2025

Cheila Magallanes

Cook on Concord: Thanksgiving reflections on 2025

Brad Cook,

Looking back on the shutdown, statesmanship and other meaty matters

Overcoming differences

Doug Teschner,

Pondering graceful aging amid a life setback

Modern House With Heat Pump, Efficient Heating With Green Energy

$450M plan aims to supercharge heat pump use

Sarah Shemkus - Canary Media,

New England winters can get wicked cold. Last week, five of the region’s states launched a $450 million effort to warm more of the homes in the often-frigid region with energy-efficient, low-emission heat pumps instead of burning fossil fuels.

Beethoven in the background

Ron Bourque,

How about a little something extra for your customers?

Tannenbaum Times

Brion OConnor,

Real vs. fake: New Hampshire’s ongoing Christmas Tree debate

The Bottom Line: Microwave Techniques, Needham Bank and Provident Bancorp Merger, Connection

Amanda Andrews,

A roundup of news updates from public companies in NH and nationwide

The Pulse: New England economy grew at ‘sluggish pace’

Mark Hayward,

Federal Reserve report shows cautious optimism about the future

Take 5: Consumers, Mobility Report, and Resume.org survey

Amanda Andrews,

NH Business Review's biweekly snapshot of business and industry statistics

What the latest data reveals about NH’s shifting economy and demographics

Jessica Williams/NH Fiscal Policy Institute,

New Hampshire’s story is often told through familiar but false assumptions: retirees driving population change, Massachusetts buyers pushing up home prices, and a uniquely low-tax landscape keeping the state affordable.

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NH Business Finance Authority approves world’s first bitcoin-backed municipal bond

Contributed to NH Business Review,

The New Hampshire Business Finance Authority (BFA) board of directors has approved a financing structure that will make New Hampshire the first state in the world to issue a municipal bond backed by bitcoin.

More news from NHBR:

Expanding access to mental health care in New Hampshire

Demand for behavioral health care services continues to rise across New Hampshire and the nation, impacting families, employers, health care providers, and communities alike.

Are home prices closing in on a $600,000 median?

The median priced single-family home in the Granite State reached another all-time high at $579,900, according to data from the New Hampshire Association of Realtors. That breaks the previous high mark of $569,000 in June of last year.

Promoting NH’s outdoor economy will take better coordination, report says

New Hampshire’s outdoor economy is active and evolving, but the systems that support it have not kept pace, according to a new report by the Granite Outdoor Alliance. “Grounded Growth” was culled from three roundtables hosted by industry businesses around the state where 62 stakeholders from business, manufacturing, conservation, workforce and the public sector discussed challenges and opportunities shaping New Hampshire’s outdoor economy.