Emily Corwin reported on economics for the StateImpact New Hampshire blog until the project merged with the New Hampshire Public Radio site in July 2013. She is now NHPR’s Seacoast Reporter. You can follow her on Twitter at @emilycorwin, and find her stories on NHPR.org.
Eating ice cream seems to come with the territory of campaigning in New Hampshire — but with nine ice cream socials scheduled across the state this month, gubernatorial candidate Maggie Hassan is going all out. The Hassan campaign has three socials down, six to go, scooping a total of about 1000 scoops of ice cream to about 450 people. That adds up to about $1,665 of ice cream, two-thirds of which will be paid for by Puritan Ice Cream in Manchester.
Let’s hope nobody on Hassan’s staff is lactose-intolerant. Continue Reading →
Business owners and policy makers from New Hampshire and Canada met in Concord today to participate in the New Hampshire-Canada Economic Development Forum. House Representative Ray Gagnon of Claremont helped organize the event. He believes the conference represents a new paradigm in international economic relations. Continue Reading →
When celebrated Concord resident and high school teacher Christa McAuliffe died in the Challenger explosion in 1986, an out-of-state donor offered $500,000 to build a monument in downtown Concord. As then-mayor Jim MacKay remembers, the city declined. Instead, the state built a planetarium. Today – 26 years after the state opened the McAuliffe Planetarium — the facility is on its way to becoming a private, nonprofit institution. Continue Reading →
Just how much economic growth would Coos County need to entice the region’s youth to return after college? This is something the Carsey Institute’s Eleanor Jaffee hopes to reveal with the 10-year long Coos Youth Study. Carsey researchers are following Coos County’s class of 2009 as they move from high school to college and beyond. The project’s most recent survey results were released this week. Continue Reading →
On Wednesday the Affordable Care Act will require insurance companies to cover eight new preventive health services for women, with no copays. These provisions supplement a series of preventive care requirements already instituted when the ACA passed two years ago. And while some states already require insurance plans to cover some preventive services, these requirements will be new for insurance providers in New Hampshire.
The female-specific services are based on guidelines recommended by the independent Institute of Medicine, at the request of Health and Human Services. Here’s what’s covered: Continue Reading →
Sixteen New Hampshire organizations are receiving a total of $5.4 million in tax credits from the Community Development Finance Authority for this coming fiscal year. The winning projects were announced Wednesday. Awards include funding for upgrades to Portsmouth’s Prescott Park Pavillion; the conversion of an abandoned Nashua mill into affordable housing units; the rebuilding of Concord’s burned-down soup kitchen; and community theater projects in Peterborough, Lincoln and Manchester. Continue Reading →
This map traces the last year of venture capital deals across the country. In New Hampshire, a collaborative venture fund -- managed by Borealis Ventures with money from the state -- will soon be moving local capital into the hands of local innovators. Continue reading →
Today, about 200 New Hampshire small business owners are attending a series of three classes in Hooksett, during which they set up their own website, then learn how to leverage it, all for free.
Walking up the sidewalk to Southern New Hampshire University’s dining hall — where Google is launching a year-long Get Your Business Online campaign in New Hampshire — you get the distinct sensation that Google… has a really good marketing department. At the entrance to the building, there’s one of those red tear-drop markers you see on Google Maps — only it’s as tall as a building. Before you enter the building, you pass five entirely decorative, yet functional, bicycles, all painted with Google’s colors. And that’s just the start of it.
Jamie Hill, an energetic Google spokesperson, explained to me that for Google, the purpose of the event is two-fold. Every time somebody in New Hampshire Googles “plumber” and can’t find one, there are local plumbers who are missing out on business opportunities. But at the same time, that guy who wants to find a plumber is using Google’s product — its search engine — and ending up dissatisfied. So, Hill says, Get Your Business Online is both a community service and a marketing campaign. How Googley is that.
This event is one of many taking place across the country. Google is teaming up with a national web services business called Intuit. Together, Google and Intuit are offering businesses in the country free websites and consulting for one year (then, businesses will have to pay Intuit for their services). The campaign is launching with a separate high-profile event in each state. Stay tuned for more on Google’s GYBO campaign.
“You wouldn’t expect a fine chemicals manufacturing company to locate in New Hampshire,” Hanno Wentzler, CEO of Freudenberg Chemical Specialties, told the New Hampshire Business Review, “but we have made it here.” The company has announced it will be expanding its workforce, adding up to 100 employees over two years to its Klüber Lubrication plant in Londonderry.
Earlier this year, Freudenberg announced a new “sustainability roadmap,” after partnering with the U.S. Department of Energy and a number of universities to conduct energy audits at its U.S. locations. The company is also developing products that will help customers in the automobile industry meet emissions and fuel economy regulations.
Read more about Freudenberg North America at NHBR.
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