New Hampshire Business Review - January 13, 2023

January 13, 2023

Jeff Feingold

A final loss in 2022

Brad Cook,

Remembering Jim Squires, NH’s ‘first citizen’

Mother Breastfeeds Her Baby While Working With Laptop.

What you need to know about new workplace protections for pregnant, nursing workers

Casey Quinlan/NH Bulletin,

Recently enacted measures clarify rights of mothers, proponents says

Cheaper isn’t always better

Ron Bourque,

When sourcing components from China, the experience can be expensive

Report targets ‘advanced recycling’ as PR myth

Sruthi Gopalakrishnan/Concord Monitor,

NH the only New England state to pass legislation that creates loopholes in the advanced recycling industry

Intelitek opens first of 20 planned STEAM centers in Ghana

NH Business Review Staff,

New center part of initiative to increase student interest and instructional quality around STEAM

Six multifamily projects OKd for LIHTC, other funding

NH Business Review Staff,

341 units approved in Concord, Hillsborough, Nashua and Rochester

Common Man effort Relief for Ukraine raises $2.5 million

Jon Decker-The Laconia Daily Sun,

NH Relief for Ukraine Fund provides for everything from generators for orphanages to a blood mobile for supplying field hospitals

‘Uncertain’ agenda

Bob Sanders,

Closely divided House, economic questions to mark 2023 legislative session

Medicaid expansion seen as an economic necessity

Sruthi Gopalakrishnan/Concord Monitor,

Program reauthorization called legislative priority

Housing concerns remain on New Hampshire Legislature’s front burner

Bob Sanders,

Lawmakers to take up enhancing Affordable Housing Fund, tenant protections

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.