{"id":4478,"date":"2011-12-23T10:30:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T15:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=4478"},"modified":"2011-12-20T12:10:35","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T17:10:35","slug":"best-of-stateimpact-how-nh-poaches-massachusetts-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2011\/12\/23\/best-of-stateimpact-how-nh-poaches-massachusetts-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Of StateImpact: How NH Poaches Massachusetts Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Leo Reynolds \/ Flickr<\/p>

StateImpact found that business poaching from Massachusetts is about more than just tax policy<\/p><\/div>\n

When New Hampshire politicians and business-types talk about “economic development,” they often mean touting the so-called “New Hampshire Advantage.”\u00a0 Among other things, that’s overall low–or in many cases, no–taxes, an educated workforce, and that amorphous “quality of life” distinction.<\/p>\n

But “economic development” in the Granite State also means using the much-vaunted New Hampshire Advantage as a tool for poaching businesses from Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

As we’ve noted previously, one of the hazards of soft-launching a business news blog is that some of our earlier coverage just didn’t get the audience that our later pieces have snagged.<\/p>\n

So as we look to the New Year, we’d like to re-gift this coverage to you.\u00a0 We’re scouring our archives for the very best that StateImpact’s had to offer since we went online this past summer.<\/p>\n

And today’s news parcel is actually a matching set:<\/p>\n

Six Ways To Look At How NH Does \u2014 And Doesn\u2019t \u2014 Attract Economic Development<\/a>:\u00a0 We broke down a number of studies, talked to some sources, and went on a myth-busting quest to determine where the Granite State is succeeding and failing in its efforts to draw Bay State firms.<\/p>\n

Seven Essential Questions\u2014And Answers\u2014 For The Man Known As New Hampshire\u2019s Business Thief<\/a>: We followed-up our first economic development piece with a Q&A with the state’s Business Development Manager, Michael Bergeron.\u00a0 He clued us in on the years-long process of recruiting a company, and the importance of Quebec to the future of the North Country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When New Hampshire politicians and business-types talk about “economic development,” they often mean touting the so-called “New Hampshire Advantage.”\u00a0 Among other things, that’s overall low–or in many cases, no–taxes, an educated workforce, and that amorphous “quality of life” distinction. But “economic development” in the Granite State also means using the much-vaunted New Hampshire Advantage as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":4488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51],"tags":[522,85,87,521],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4478"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4490,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4478\/revisions\/4490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}