New Hampshire Business Review - July 31, 2020

July 30, 2020

Jeff Feingold

Insufficient rental inventory fuels low vacancy rate, median rent increase

Ryan Lessard-Granite State News Collaborative,

Demand drives up cost of two-bedroom apartments

How we can lead on race

Doug Teschner,

All of us should look deeper within ourselves for unconscious bias

Lawmaking in a pandemic

Brad Cook,

Legislative rules were abandoned or adjusted to meet current conditions

The Circuit Court after 9 years

Judge David King,

Born in a budget crisis, innovation and cost savings have resulted

Cartoon for the Week of July 31, 2020

NH Business Review Staff,

Q&A with Community development advocate Woullard Lett

John Angelo,

‘There is only one race, the human race,’ says Woullard Lett, past president of the Manchester NAACP and currently New England Regional Lead at the Unitarian Universalist Association.

Black Granite Staters call for more inclusive New Hampshire

Liisa Rajala,

Now is the time for systemic change in the workplace, government and community at-large, they say

New Hampshire still struggling in search for school-funding solution

Michael Kitch,

27 years after Claremont, court, lawmakers slog ahead

CEO-to-worker pay gap keeps growing

Bob Sanders,

CEO-to-worker pay gap keeps growing

Struggling Business: The First Step Toward Recovery is a Budget

Joseph A. Foster, Christopher M. Dube,

More frequent cash flow monitoring and reassessment of assumptions in pro forma financial statements should be the new normal for management during the crisis.

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