New Hampshire Business Review - Mar. 8, 2024

(Opinion) Blanket mandates fix nothing

New Hampshire’s nursing homes are facing an unprecedented labor crisis that has been further exacerbated by the pandemic, and the supply of skilled workers is not keeping pace with demand.

Swinging for birdies and subscribers

For Cuyler Gauthier, golf and video editing were his passions growing up in Londonderry. At the age of 31, the current resident of tiny Grantham has melded these into a fledgling career as a content creator.

What are you reading now?

In the crazy and complex world we find ourselves inhabiting, it is sometimes valuable to block out the TV, internet and virtual world, and read a book.

Paying for complaints

I’ve written about this several times over the last 20-something years, but it looks like it’s time to do it again. I’ve explained this to several people recently, yet so many others still don’t understand the phenomenon.

A victory lap and a forecast for another good year

In my last column, I shared some anecdotes that help tell the story of the New Hampshire economy, but I would not make any important decisions based on the laments of my Lyft driver or rumors about remote working from skiers on the gondola at Loon. For data-crunching, we have people like Brian Gottlob, director of the state Economic and Labor Market Information Bureau.