New Hampshire Business Review - Oct. 7, 2022

October 6, 2022

Jeff Feingold

Q&A with Awato Co-Founder Matthew Guruge

Flo Nicolas,

Matthew Guruge’s Awato platform seeks to help students learn about the career pathways that might interest them.

Let’s see what the ‘spending targets’ are

Donald J. Pfundstein,

Taxpayers have the right to know what they pay for prescription drugs

When our children prosper, we all prosper

Frank Edelblut,

Both before, during and now post-pandemic, the Department of Education remains committed to supporting our children and our schools.

Celebrating achievements of Hispanic-owned small businesses

Mike Vlacich,

Hispanic and Latino American small business owners have made immense contributions that to our economy entrepreneurs

Higher interest rates

Paul Forester,

The most important thing to remember as rates rise: don’t panic

A unique NH election story

Brad Cook,

And remembering Jack Kenny, a unique New Hampshire character

Miserable air travel

Ron Bourque,

Employees and customers are victims of the focus on a company’s short-term stock price

The quiet-quitting reality

Doug Teschner,

It’s really about engaged employees and effective employers

Longtime NHBR writer Jack Kenny dies at 76

Jeff Feingold,

John “Jack” Arthur Kenny, 76, who started writing for NH Business Review in the early 1980s, died Sept. 21 after a prolonged battle with cancer.

Cuts in rooms and meals, communications taxes? Not likely

Bob Sanders,

Chances aren’t good that the NH Legislature will cut the rooms and meals tax soon, no matter what happens in the coming election, given the recommendation of the outgoing House Ways and Means Committee

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.