Posts by Maureen Milliken
Leaders from organizations on the front lines of New Hampshire’s housing crisis urged the state Senate Commerce Committee Thursday to keep the Housing Champions program.
A New Hampshire woman died Friday in a snowmobile accident in northern Maine, the Maine Warden Service reported Saturday.
New Hampshire’s new year began with slightly better single-family home sales numbers than 2025, but with a much higher median January sales price.
It’s tax time, and boy are there a lot of things, big and small, you should know about filing this year.
There were a lot of changes with the tax bill pass last summer. On top of it, with the huge staffing cuts at the Internal Revenue Service this year, things will be a little chaotic. Don’t just take my word for it – National Taxpayer Advocate Erin Collins told Congress Wednesday that this year’s tax filing is going to “present challenges” because of the job cuts and other disarray at the IRS.
Thursday marked one year since my first Grocery Snapshot shopping trip. It came right after President Trump announced his plan for across-the-board tariffs. I made a handful of purchases of things I usually bought that I thought could be affected by tariffs, as well as some that may not be, and figured we’d track them for a year to see how, or if, the prices changed.
A program recently touted by the state as critical to building more housing, yet not funded in the current state budget, took another step toward being scrapped, with a New Hampshire House vote in favor of repealing it Thursday.
Repeal of a program that’s been touted as instrumental in helping the state inch toward closing the gap on its housing needs – including supporting 65 new housing units in Manchester – is scheduled for a vote Thursday in the New Hampshire House.
The state is doing a better job of getting closer – though not reaching – its housing goals, with only a fraction of the state’s municipalities responsible for housing growth, according to the annual housing supply report for the state released Tuesday.
Let’s face it, it’s probably time for Super Secret Ice Cream in Bethlehem to change its name, because the secret is out. How super secret can it be now that, for the third year in a row, the shop has been named a James Beard Foundation Restaurant and Chef Award semifinalist?
The latest phishing scam to hit email boxes is particularly insidious – it looks just like a real digital invite to a party, from a real person in the recipient’s contact list.
Is one of your New Year’s resolutions to budget this year? By all means, do it! Just be sure you take into account some of the changes in the consumer world that may affect where or how your money goes.
New Hampshire’s housing market showed signs of improvement overall in 2025, with several key indicators increasing for the time in several years.
Did you buy beef for yourself, your family or friends to consume between Aug. 1, 2014, and Dec. 31, 2019? You may be eligible for part of a $87.5 million settlement.
Redevelopment of the former Hallsville School building has been approved for 2026 Low-Income Housing Tax Credits, a key step in developing the 36-unit affordable housing project.
As we reach the end of 2025, Congress has yet to approve keeping the ACA tax credit enhancement that helps to make health insurance affordable for millions of Americans.
The brewery plant is one of three the company owns that will close in early 2026 as part of a move to “update and modernize” U.S manufacturing operations, a spokesman said. The other two are in New Jersey and California.
The housing market in New Hampshire continues to loosen up a little, a trend that’s been consistent for the last few months, but it hasn’t been enough to make a dent in the cost of buying a home.
New Hampshire business owners and entrepreneurs now have a new tool that will help streamline the state’s business-related resources.
You don’t have to be an FBI agent these days to know that the unsolicited text or email is probably a scam. The problem is, as artificial intelligence gets more sophisticated, so do the scammers, and scams are more of a problem than they’ve ever been.
After a few relatively tranquil months, the December grocery snapshot’s ups and downs are whiplash-inducing. It’s a great lesson in looking at what goes on over the long run. Affordability has become the word of the season, and many stores that can afford to drop prices, at least for the season, are listening.