Posts by Maureen Milliken
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.
If the window at the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce isn’t motivating enough, the chamber and Manchester Economic Development Department are hosting a Shop Local Saturday kickoff 8:30 a.m. Saturday at The Bookery, 844 Elm St.
As promised last time, I’m going to take a break from the doom and gloom and how every single thing that’s happening is going to hurt you financially in some way and focus on some good stuff instead.
A coalition created in 2020 to tackle the state’s housing crisis is embarking on its next phase, a three-year roadmap to continue work that over the past four years “made significant progress toward its mission.”
Logan Clegg, convicted of a double murder two years ago, took his case before the New Hampshire Supreme Court Wednesday, arguing that police searched his phone without a warrant.
The November grocery snapshot was a first since we’ve been keeping track. Four items decreased in price, and not one item increased.
The single-family home market in New Hampshire continued to loosen slightly, with closed sales, listings and inventory all up in October from where they were a year ago.
NAP-only food pantries set up by DHHS and the New Hampshire Food Bank earlier this week to help those who receive benefits put food on the table will continue through Friday, Nov. 14, DHHS said. A list of pantries and food box pickups for SNAP beneficiaries can be found on the DHHS website.
Mobile food pantries and food box distribution for New Hampshire SNAP recipients begins this week across the state, with Manchester’s weekly mobile food pantry set for Nov. 13, and five-day-a week food box pickup starting Wednesday.
Two federal judges have ordered the Trump administration to use a contingency fund to cove November SNAP benefits for 42 million Americans. Benefits are due to end Saturday as the government shutdown continues.
The New Hampshire contingency plan will take about a week to put into place, officials said. New Hampshire Food Bank officials met later Wednesday to nail down details of how the plan will work.
One of the toughest nuts to crack in the struggle to increase affordable housing in New Hampshire is access to water and sewer infrastructure that would allow more density. Understanding where that that infrastructure is and how it interacts with zoning just got easier with the latest addition to the New Hampshire Zoning Atlas.
New Hampshire is the only New England state that has not joined a group of 26 in a suit filed Tuesday against the federal government over it’s refusal to use a contingency fund to pay Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits beginning Saturday.
The first step toward providing some relief for the state’s more than 75,000 SNAP recipients was taken Tuesday as the Legislative Fiscal Committee unanimously approved a contingency plan that will provide funding to shore up food bank resources.
It’s crunch time for the more than 75,000 New Hampshire residents who rely on SNAP benefits to put food on the table, as the federal shutdown is likely to continue into November and the government refuses to release a reserve fund that would help keep benefits going for two or three weeks.