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:

Federal and state housing legislation wrestle with affordability crisis

As Granite Staters eye ever-increasing purchase prices for a single-family home, state and federal policy makers wrestle with solutions that create more housing supply. Among them is bipartisan federal legislation on housing that is being held hostage by President Donald Trump’s fixation on a bill that would require voters to provide proof of citizenship with such documents as U.S. passports or birth certificates.

Wooden Hammer Judge Against The Background Of Dollars

Manchester and Nashua: Best bang for the buck in NH

Two New Hampshire cities are among the 10 best-run cities in the country, according to a WalletHub analysis of U.S. communities where residents get the most bang for their taxes. Manchester was rated No. 3, while Nashua was close behind at No. 5., based on a “Quality of Services” score that WalletHub developed using 36 metrics across six key service areas — financial stability, education, health, safety, economy and infrastructure/pollution.