New Hampshire Business Review - March 14, 2025

March 13, 2025

Mike Cote

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:

‘What must remain human?’ Dartmouth AI conference opens without a clear answer

Dartmouth College opened its “AI at 70” conference Thursday morning, Oct. 29, with a session called “The Future Worth Building is Human.”

(Opinion) Utilities learn to communicate through uncertainty

On Nov. 26, 2015, heavy wet snow was falling, with a forecast warning of an impending storm for days. The phone rings, and before I answer it, I already know what the reporter is going to ask.

(Opinion) From mill town to river town

New Hampshire has more than 10,000 miles of rivers, many of which flow through downtowns.

(Opinion) Investing in youth mental health in New Hampshire

The nationwide youth mental health crisis has seen marked improvements in New Hampshire since 2021, but the problem is still far from fixed. Indeed, while the measured outcomes are getting better compared to the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the figures today are still historically concerning compared to a decade ago.

(Opinion) People with disabilities are an untapped resource

New Hampshire employers spend considerable time and resources trying to find dependable employees who want to work. Yet there is a segment of our population that is too often overlooked: adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).

Come to the table

Reliable, accessible childcare is an economic advantage that helps New Hampshire businesses attract and retain employees, strengthen their workforce and support long-term growth.

Growing with grace

Identifying growing and grace as my top two values helped me focus on who I want to be and how I want to show up. Revisiting these six years later, I am pleased that these ideas still ring true.

Are prediction markets revenue ripe for picking in NH?

To many people, prediction markets and sports gaming are a distinction without a difference. Which begs the question: Should New Hampshire be regulating prediction markets, especially as they apply to sports, the same way it regulates — and draws revenue from — sports betting via DraftKings?

(Market & Main Streets) Employers follow workers

Over the course of my career, I have attended my share of ribbon-cuttings that were the result of a lot of effort to recruit a new company into the state.