New Hampshire Business Review - March 14, 2025

March 13, 2025

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Child care shortage may have cost NH businesses $56m in 2023

Nicole Heller, NH Fiscal Policy Institute,

Current and potential Granite State residents with children may struggle to join, or fully engage in, the labor force.

HB 524: eliminating free vaccines will cost patients

Opinion,

Where can families access childhood vaccines if their PCPs can’t afford them?

NH Possible: Granite Staters driving local solutions

Jennifer Frizzell, Zeina Eyceoz, Anthony Poore,

Nonpartisan initiative aims to bring diverse communities together to provide solutions to statewide issues community

Don’t put all your financial eggs in one basket

Joseph H. Guyton,

If you invest heavily in one company’s stock, for instance, and that company abruptly goes bankrupt, you could lose a lot of money.

Looking for a winning formula?

Ron Bourque,

Reap the rewards of Baldrige-worthy excellence

Thriving culture, business: it starts with people

For NH Business Review,

BY BROOKE MORAN & PAUL TAME In today’s fast-moving business landscape, organizations across New Hampshire face a pressing challenge: attracting, engaging and retaining top talent. A strong people and culture strategy isn’t just an HR initiative; it’s the foundation for…

Neighboring Fisherville condo projects break ground, up for sale

Catherine McLaughlin/Concord Monitor,

A steady drip of new housing will land on Fisherville Road in the next few years, as construction formally begins on one condo development and another begins to put listings on the market

Opinion: Protect North Country towns and industries by passing HB 123

The Coos County Commissioners,

House Bill 123 addresses the negative impacts carbon sequestration has on New Hampshire’s timber industry and heavily timber municipalities. HB 123 would modify the existing yield tax on cut timber in RSA 79 to include taxing the yield of the metric tonnage of carbon sequestered from standing timber.

Manchester-Boston Regional Airport director Ted Kitchens resigns

Trisha Nail,

Ted Kitchens, director of aviation at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport, is resigning after serving six years at the helm and spearheading efforts to add five new airlines to MHT within that time.

Health Insurance Accident Claim Form With Stethoscope, Medical Concept.

Without tax credits, NH residents face health coverage ‘subsidy cliff’

Paul Briand,

Enhanced tax credits that help thousands of Granite Staters better afford federally backed health coverage are set to expire at the end of 2025

More news from NHBR:

Shaping NH's health care landscape

NH Hospital Association President Steve Ahnen discusses health care landscape in the state, federal and state policies affecting patients, AI in health care and more

Fake Medicare Card With Fake Us Currency And Pen.

Exit stage left: Two insurers leave NH’s Medicare Advantage market

Anthem and Martin’s Point are exiting the state entirely, Aetna is shrinking its coverage to just one county, and others are adjusting their plans, leaving some of the state’s counties with limited choices

Unbottling the Nongfu Spring deal

New Hampshire’s attorney general says no improprieties by state officials preceded the sale of a large Nashua commercial building to China’s largest water bottler. But Attorney General John Formella’s report to Gov. Kelly Ayotte dated Oct. 3 says the provisions of federal law should have taken place prior to the sale of the 337,391-square-foot building at 80 Northwest Blvd. in Nashua by a subsidiary of Nongfu Spring.