Posts by Maureen Milliken
A decade later, as the two brothers stand in the outside seating area of the Harpoon Brewery restaurant and tap room, the anchor tenant of Queen City Center, they talk about the long road that brought them there.
New Hampshire is 38th among the 50 states and Washington, D.C., for five-year survival of businesses that opened in 2024, according to a new analysis.
The affordability index for June was 53, meaning that the state’s median income is 53% of what’s needed to cover monthly cost of a home in the state, including mortgage payment, insurance and property tax. The median income for the state is $87,356, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The affordability index in both June 2024 and last month was 55.
The state ranked 50th in a study that compared average silver plan, or benchmark, insurance premiums to median income in every state. New Hampshire residents with a silver plan use 4.02% of their income to pay for health insurance, according to the Wallet Hub study.Â
Price increases are still outpacing decreases since I began keeping track. That said, the past month’s grocery snapshot was low-key. In fact, thanks to dry cat food going back to what it was before last month’s startling increase, per-item price totals decreased.
A new report finds that 1 in 5 Americans have experienced a travel scam while planning a trip, and artificial intelligence is constantly making it easier to scam people.
New Hampshire has been awarded nearly $1 million in funding to help the state’s small and medium-sized manufacturers access an initiative that helps them navigate the supply chain and stay resilient. The grant is notable in that Manufacturing Extension Partnerships funding was on the U.S. Department of Commerce’s chopping block just a couple of months ago.Â
The injunction, announced Wednesday, comes three weeks after the judge, Andrew Carter, of the U.S. District Court of New York, issued a temporary restraining order directing the U.S. Department of Labor to stop removing Job Corps students from housing, terminating jobs or otherwise suspending the nationwide program without congressional approval.
Employee information, including Social Security numbers and bank account details, was compromised during a cyber breach of the employee information systems at Hannaford supermarkets and other Ahold-Delhaize USA Services companies, parent company Ahold-Delhaize said Thursday.
Projects in seven New Hampshire counties that will boost economic development are sharing more than $7.3 million in grant funding from the Northern Border Regional Commission.