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As noted in prior columns, this writer has the honor to serve as chairman of the New Hampshire Ballot Law Commission, the legislatively created, quasi-judicial panel that has authority to decide questions of qualifications to run for office, decide appeals from recounts of close elections, certify new ballot-counting devices and…

HousingWireHousingWire After a slow start to the year, the housing market picked up the pace during the second quarter. For the title insurance industry, this meant an uptick in title insurance premium volume, which came in at $4.09 billion for the quarter, according to the American Land Title Association (ALTA)’s…

HousingWireHousingWire A stronger than expected September jobs report is not great news for the Federal Reserve or the housing industry, which was hoping for a swift decline in interest rates. Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released on Friday shows that 254,000 non-farm payroll jobs were added in September. This is higher…

Suni Hernandez wipes down a counter in the lobby of the Residence Inn in Concord. (Photo by Jodie Andruskevich) The number of temporary guest workers in New Hampshire has more than doubled over the last six years, with desperate employers reaching outside the country’s borders to hire more than 850…

Suni Hernandez wipes down a counter in the lobby of the Residence Inn in Concord. (Photo by Jodie Andruskevich) In her home country of Guatemala, Suni Hernandez is a nurse. Yet she works in Concord keeping lobbies, hallways and other common areas of a hotel tidy. The difference is economics….