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By JIM TANNER

Jim Tanner is a retired IBM manager who lives in Concord. In 2019 I ran a total tax burden comparison between Concord and my previous residence in Cambridge, Mass. I ran the comparison again in 2023. The results are surprising. The tax burden in New...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Jessica Renda didn’t realize that things were about to get difficult when her eldest daughter was discharged last summer from New Hampshire Hospital, a state-run psychiatric facility.After treatment for her mental health illness, Renda’s daughter, now...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

After the last listening session on the community center project left residents in the dark about potential tax impacts for building renovations, the town of Bow is hosting another session this week, with residents hopeful for more information on the...

By JOHN M. RODGERS

John Rodgers lives in Sunapee. My mother passed away a year ago at a for-profit hospital in southeastern New Hampshire. A doctor called just after 10 p.m. to tell me a nurse had found her, it was likely a cardiac arrest, they would be moving her body....

By RICK GREEN

New Hampshire’s minimum wage would eventually increase to $15 per hour, business taxes would be cut by millions of dollars and guns could be taken from people posing an extreme risk under bills that will be considered when legislators return to the...

By DAVID BROOKS

The coal-fired power plant in Bow has won another year’s funding from a program designed to guarantee future electricity supplies, although at about three-quarters of previous levels.The two units at Merrimack Station, the last coal-fired power plant...

By DAVID BROOKS

The region’s biggest greenhouse grower of salad greens, Lef Farms of Loudon, has been purchased by a national firm which plans to enlarge it.New York-based Brightfarms purchased Lef (pronounced “leaf”) this summer for an undisclosed amount. The...

By DAVID BROOKS

A half-century after leaving Concord for Bow, the Grappone name will be returning to a city auto dealership, even as the entire car industry faces upheaval due to electric vehicles and direct sales.“When you are 97 years into a family business you...

By DAVID BROOKS

The long-debated expansion of Mount Sunapee Ski Area into the West Bowl, including a mile-long chairlift, new lodge and new sewage system, is front and center of the area’s first master plan since it was bought by Vail Resorts.The five-year plan,...

By NICK STOICO

Sunday’s NASCAR race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway came down to a last-lap shootout.Fans rose from their seats as veteran drivers Kevin Harvick and Denny Hamlin bumped and nudged one another through the final lap with Harvick edging out the win by...