New Hampshire Business Review - Oct. 21, 2022

October 20, 2022

Jeff Feingold

Hiring people in recovery

Lauren Pearson,

Recovery-Friendly Workplace effort can benefit employers and employees

Advocates, utilities grapple with PUC investigatory powers

Amanda Gokee-New Hampshire Bulletin,

With new ground rules on policy and rulemaking, ‘everything is precedent-setting’

More election misimpressions

Brad Cook,

Recent study puts New Hampshire voting rules in a misinformed light

Workplace mental health

Debra LeClair,

Ideas that can help organizations work to restore employee well-being

Climate adjustment

Paul Briand,

The perilous relationship between the state’s ski industry and the changing environment

Where they stand

Bob Sanders,

2022 candidates give their views on business issues

Pandemic aid lessened food insecurity in NH

Phil Sletten,

Federal assistance offset negative economic effects

Forging a new path: More NH students turn to gap years before college

Serena Pugh -For The Laconia Daily Sun,

Pandemic has given them a different view of traditional postsecondary education path

House panel endorses paper paychecks

Bob Sanders,

Labor Committee nixes Senate bill that would have allowed employers to use payroll debit cards without employee OK

What Biden’s federal marijuana pardons could mean for New Hampshire

Paul Cuno-Booth -NH Public Radio,

The Granite State remains alone in New England in not legalizing pot

More news from NHBR:

Expanding access to mental health care in New Hampshire

Demand for behavioral health care services continues to rise across New Hampshire and the nation, impacting families, employers, health care providers, and communities alike.

Are home prices closing in on a $600,000 median?

The median priced single-family home in the Granite State reached another all-time high at $579,900, according to data from the New Hampshire Association of Realtors. That breaks the previous high mark of $569,000 in June of last year.

Promoting NH’s outdoor economy will take better coordination, report says

New Hampshire’s outdoor economy is active and evolving, but the systems that support it have not kept pace, according to a new report by the Granite Outdoor Alliance. “Grounded Growth” was culled from three roundtables hosted by industry businesses around the state where 62 stakeholders from business, manufacturing, conservation, workforce and the public sector discussed challenges and opportunities shaping New Hampshire’s outdoor economy.