Down To Business

NHBR's award-winning reporter, Bob Sanders, speaks on the newest opportunities available that may help initiate production for renewable natural gases in New Hampshire, thanks to measures like Senate Bill 424. This week's episode is brought to you by McLane Middleton, providing trusted legal services to businesses throughout the region for over 100 years. For a complete listing of their practice a...

Lisa Guertin, president of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in New Hampshire, who’s retiring from the job in March, talks about her 32 years with the company and the momentous changes she’s seen in the insurance and health care industries in that time. This week's episode is brought to you by McLane Middleton, providing trusted legal services to businesses throughout the region for over 100 years...

NH Business Review editors Jeff Feingold and Amanda Andrews discuss Amanda's new story on the state's other housing crisis: a shortage of housing for people with disabilities. The problem is so acute that individuals are being sent to other states to be housed, in some cases separating them from families and communities. This week's episode is brought to you by McLane Middleton, providing trusted...

NH Business Review editor Jeff Feingold and associate editor Amanda Andrews talk with Heather LaDue, executive director of professional programs and partnerships at Franklin Pierce University, who puts together partnerships with employers to meet their ever-changing needs. This week's episode is brought to you by McLane Middleton, providing trusted legal services to businesses throughout the regio...

NH Business Review editor Jeff Feingold talks all things economic with Brian Gottlob, director of the NH Economic Labor and Market Information Bureau, including the state of New Hampshire’s current economy and how 2022, in light of Covid and supply chain concerns, appears to be shaping up. This week's episode is brought to you by McLane Middleton, providing trusted legal services to businesses thr...

NH Business Review Editor Jeff Feingold talks with Tim Horgan, executive director of the World Affairs Council of New Hampshire, about how the global supply chain disruption predates the current pandemic by at least a decade. The problem doesn't have an easy solution, with long timelines for building new ports, training new truckers and a rapidly expanding e-commerce field. The World Affairs Counc...

NH Business Review’s Jeff Feingold and Bob Sanders go over some of the key pieces of business-related legislation being sponsored by New Hampshire lawmakers this session – including a slew of Covid bills and various workplace and energy measures.

Laurel Adams, president of the Raymond-based Regional Economic Development Center, discusses her organization’s efforts to help grow businesses and create jobs in New Hampshire, including its New Americans Fund, which supports new American business owners. This week's episode is sponsored by TFMoran (www.tfmoran.com), a  leading land planning and engineering firm with  offices in Be...

NH Business Review editor Jeff Feingold talks with staff writer Bob Sanders about what he learned after talking with Granite State businesspeople and economists on their expectations for the New Hampshire economy in 2022. This week's episode is brought to you by McLane Middleton, providing trusted legal services to businesses throughout the region for over 100 years. For a complete listing of thei...

Northeast Delta Dental President and CEO Tom Raffio joins NH Business Review Publisher Ernesto Burden to talk about some of the key lessons in Tom's new book, Prepare For Crisis, Plan To Thrive . Stick around to the end when Tom reveals the three components of his secret sauce for success in business and leadership. This week's episode is brought to you by McLane Middleton, providing trusted legal...

This week NH Business Review editor Jeff Feingold talks with Steve Duprey and Andru Volinsky, two well-known NH civic leaders from different sides of the political aisle, about a recent op-ed they cowrote on civic engagement. They discuss their longtime friendship (despite great political differences) and how they think discourse can improve in the state and nationwide. This week's episode is spon...

NH Business Review editor Jeff Feingold talks with Jason Alexander, managing partner at the BANKW staffing and recruitment company, about what employers can and should do to navigate through the extremely difficult employee recruitment and retention landscape. This week's episode is sponsored by TFMoran (www.tfmoran.com), a  leading land planning and engineering firm with  offices i...

NH Business Review editor Jeff Feingold talks with  Sam Evans-Brown,  executive director of the nonprofit Clean Energy New Hampshire, about the potential ramifications of the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to cut energy efficiency program funding by more than 50 percent, including efficient-energy-contractor job losses, and the lawsuit Clean Energy New Hampshire filed th...

NH Business Review Editor Jeff Feingold and Publisher Ernesto Burden talk holiday pandemic travel, COVID numbers, labor shortages, supply chain issues and more in this pre-holiday episode. This week's episode is brought to you by McLane Middleton, providing trusted legal services to businesses throughout the region for over 100 years. For a complete listing of their practice areas, attorneys, and...

NH Business Review editor Jeff Feingold and award-winning staff writer Bob Sanders break down a Bob's recent story on a new trend in healthcare. As an outgrowth of the Affordable Care Act, and subsequent measures and subsidies, more and more people are finding the individual market an affordable alternative to employer-provided healthcare. As large and small group health insurance markets shrink,...

Holly Gaspar of Dartmouth-Hitchcock and Chelsie Rommell of NH Legal Assistance discuss a new medical-legal partnership being launched in the Upper Valley and Sullivan County. The two-year pilot project will identify health disparities in those communities and make civil legal assistance accessible to young families in need in those communities. This week's episode is sponsored by TFMoran (www...

NH Business Review editor Jeff Feingold talks with staff writer Bob Sanders about New Hampshire’s trust laws, which were modeled after South Dakota’s – the state that figures prominently in the Pandora Papers leaks as an international haven for sometimes nefarious money held in foreign trusts set up people looking to avoid taxes and scrutiny. This week's episode is brought to you by McLane Middlet...

NH Business Review editor Jeff Feingold talks with Jim Monahan, Founder of the NH Telehealth Alliance and Deb Fournier, the organization's policy advisor, about their case that NH needs to normalize telehealth and provide long-term regulatory support for telehealth initiatives and the companies investing in them, replacing temporary initiatives created to address the pandemic. They also discuss th...

NH Business Review Editor Jeff Feingold talks with Taylor Caswell, Commissioner of the NH Department of Business and Economic Affairs, about the department’s Collaborative Economic Development Regions (CEDRs). Caswell explains how CEDRs came about and how they correct for an economic development infrastructure in New Hampshire that’s not ...

NH Business Review Editor Jeff Feingold and Girls Inc. CEO (and former NH Business Review publisher) Sharron McCarthy discuss NHBR's upcoming Powered by Women event. Sharron reflects, as both the event's founder and a panelist this year, on what makes it such a moving event for speakers and attendees. This week's episode is sponsored by TFMoran (www.tfmoran.com), a  leading land planning...

NH Business Review Editor Jeff Feingold and Publisher Ernesto Burden talk about the Oct. 6 Business Excellence Awards event, the high in-person turnout, and the outlook for events going forward in the age of COVID. Then, after the break, they dive into Burden's upcoming NH Business Review story on the latest from Dean Kamen's ARMI project and the potential for Manchester to become the hub of the n...

This week, NH Business Review Editor Jeff Feingold and Publisher Ernesto Burden, both running geeks themselves, chat with John Mortimer, founder of Millennium Running. They discuss how John grew a ubiquitous, vertically-integrated running event and retail business out of a single, ad hoc race on New Year's Eve back in 1999. They also talk about how the company's commitment to community partnership...

Brooklyn-born, New Hampshire-based writer Anthony Payton joins NH Business Review editor Jeff Feingold to discuss Payton's newly launched Common Ground Initiative podcast. The podcast aims to explore "what unites us, not divides us," and break down preconceptions that people may have of each other, based on Payton's own experiences as a Black man in New Hampshire. The podcast and columns by Payton...

NH Business Review Publisher Ernesto Burden talks with leaders from the NH Automobile Dealers Association and a recently graduated automotive technician about an innovative scholarship program the NHADA has developed to promote auto tech careers to high and college students. Joining the discussion are NHADA President Pete McNamara, Mike Kopp, who sits on the NHADA board and is a partner at Northco...

NH Business Review Editor Jeff Feingold talks with Leland Goldberg, founder of VETRN MBA. VETRN, which stands for Veteran Entrepenural Training Resource Network, is a high-level business training program that’s entirely free to military veteran business owners. Over the course of the training, entrepreneurs gain the resources, mentorship, skills and training to grow their businesses. They discuss...