New Hampshire Business Review - Sept. 5, 2025

September 4, 2025

Bedford tech company expands with an eye on AI

Paul Briand,

SilverTech CEO Nick Soggu discusses the promise and risks of AI as his Bedford-based agency acquires Paragon, expanding digital experience services and advancing AI-driven innovation.

Luring medical residents to train, and stay, in New Hampshire

Meera Mahadevan, Granite State News Collaborative,

Educational institutions and hospitals are taking steps to help alleviate New Hampshire’s primary care doctor shortage by trying to expand the pipeline of doctors to help replace those who are leaving.

Critical Condition: Are primary care doctors becoming a vanishing breed in New Hampshire?

Meera Mahadevan, Granite State News Collaborative,

It’s getting harder for patients to find a doctor as wait times and barriers to access grow

Public education for business

Michelle Veasey,

NH ranks last in the nation for funding public higher education per capita

Trial and error is a sloppy way to investigate and/or manage

Ron Bourque,

Air India crash theories abound, but the facts have yet to emerge

Q&A with Green Lightning Energy’s Jason Plant & Miles Drum

Amanda Andrews, Mike Cote,

Nearly two years ago, Jason Plant and Kadin Burns founded Green Lightning Energy in Sanbornton with the goal to make clean energy affordable for everyday homeowners.

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Note from the field: The outdoor economy is everyone’s economy

For NH Business Review,

New Hampshire’s $4B outdoor economy supports 32,000 jobs and ranks 8th in the nation.

The Bottom Line: Sprague, White Mountains Insurance Group and generative AI

NH Business Review Staff,

A roundup of news updates from public companies in NH and nationwide

I-95 median barrier: $4.6M project approved after NH highway deaths

Ian Lenahan-Foster's Daily Democrat,

A nearly $4.6 million contract has been awarded for the construction of a five-mile median barrier on Interstate 95 in New Hampshire with the goal to prevent highway deaths.

Electrician Mounting Solar Panel On Roof Of Modern House

Advocates decry $43.5 M solar grant clawback

Paul Briand,

Trump pulls funding for Solar for All program, which aims to expand access for low-income users

More news from NHBR:

2025 Business Excellence Awards Event Photos

Photos from the 2025 NHBR Business Excellence Awards, presented by M&T Bank. This event was held on Thursday, October 9 at the Grappone Conference Center in Concord, NH.

Even with improving trends, NH housing remains a challenge

Residential real estate trends in New Hampshire— from supply to interest rates to median price — have improved incrementally since January.

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

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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.