If it is allowed to continue, Medicaid expansion should be instrumental in reducing the number of opioid-related deaths in New Hampshire, says Michele Merritt, policy director for the organization New Futures.

An unexpected brush with national exposure on “Good Morning America” launched Christopher Guerrera of Auburn-based PACE into a career as an in-demand speaker and TV personality.

Howard Brodsky, shown here speaking in November at the 2015 Global Conference of the International Co-operative Alliance, says his Cooperatives for a Better World initiative is ‘a solution to inequality that is happening in the world.’

‘I think we’ve succeeded by having good writers and good messages at the core of everything,’ says Kevin Stickney, president and co-founder of Portsmouth-based Calypso Communications.

Hellenic American University’s MBA program stresses the interdisciplinary nature of business, says Triant Flouris.

‘Creating a sustainable health system is part of creating a new economy in the region. It will allow small businesses to spend less for health care so they can then spend more money on jobs for more people,’ says Dr. James Weinstein, CEO of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock health system.

Working as presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign manager ‘is by far the greatest job in politics,’ says Corey Lewandowski, shown at left with the candidate.

Christine Frost of the North Country Council: ‘I just feel that there’s more of a positive energy in the North Country than there has been in the recent past.’