New Hampshire officials are welcoming a manufacturer that’s moving to the Granite State from Massachusetts, as the Healey admin has convened a council to address the Bay State’s sluggish economic competitiveness.
SynQor, a company that builds power converters for the military and other industries, has alerted Massachusetts labor and workforce officials that it will depart its Boxboro headquarters and relocate to the Granite State early next year.
Officials for the electronics manufacturer have not provided the exact reasons for the move, other than telling the state Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development that all positions and jobs based in Boxboro will be transferred to a new facility in Salem, N.H.
The move is expected to bring about 250 jobs to New Hampshire, marking the second Bay State company to relocate to the Granite State this year.
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“SynQor is moving its HQ — and 250 jobs — from Massachusetts to New Hampshire!” Granite State Gov. Kelly Ayotte said in a social media post on Wednesday. “As the #1 state for economic freedom, we’re a beacon of opportunity for companies looking to grow. No better place to live, work, or raise a family than the Granite State!”
Analogic Corp., a health care and security technology company, announced in January that it would relocate its Peabody headquarters, bringing about 500 jobs to Salem, a town of about 30,000, just over the border.
Salem Town Councilor and New Hampshire state Rep. Joe Sweeney is applauding SynQor and Analogic for bringing their companies north, moves that he calls a “predictable result of years of smart policy, disciplined leadership and a clear belief in free-market principles.”
“As a Salem Town Councilor and as Deputy Majority Leader in the New Hampshire House, I have seen what happens when a state chooses growth instead of government control,” Sweeney stated in a social media post on Wednesday. “For more than a decade, New Hampshire Republicans have reduced employer taxes, cut regulations and created a climate where businesses are treated as partners who help drive prosperity.”
This all comes as Massachusetts continues to rank as a bottom-10 state for economic competitiveness. The Tax Foundation, a national watchdog group, credits the sluggishness to the Bay State’s “overly burdensome individual income taxes, property taxes, and UI taxes.”
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Gov. Maura Healey and Lt. Kim Driscoll have convened a Massachusetts Competitiveness Council to develop strategies to strengthen the state’s business and economic climate. The council of more than 20 leaders from business, labor, research and state government met for the first time on Wednesday.
Healey created the council in October to “advise her administration on policies and initiatives that support businesses, grow jobs, and ensure Massachusetts remains a leader in innovation, talent and quality of life.”
“I want Massachusetts firing on all cylinders, and winning the best jobs, investments, startups, companies and talent,” Healey said in a statement on Wednesday. “And we know that the ideas don’t all come from government, but from the people on the ground working to innovate and grow businesses every day.”
The Massachusetts High Technology Council is urging the council to prioritize reviewing state and local tax burdens and incentives or credits for firms that stay and expand in the Bay State, while addressing housing, transportation and energy costs.
“It’s time to stop treating high taxes and overregulation as immutable,” High Tech Council President Christopher Anderson said in a statement. “If Massachusetts wants to keep and attract the businesses driving innovation, growth and high-paying jobs, the time to act is now.”
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Paul Craney, the executive director of state watchdog Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance, is slamming Healey’s business mandates.
“Gov. Maura Healey is requiring any business over 20,000 feet to report their carbon footprint for an eventual carbon tax,” he told the Herald, “while NH offers no income taxes and a welcome from their Governor. Quite the difference.”
WILTON, N.H. (WHDH) – A woman died in a Wilton, New Hampshire, house fire Wednesday morning, according to the New Hampshire State Fire Marshal’s Office.
At 9:08 a.m., Wilton firefighters responded to Burns Hill Road after a caller said their home was filling up with smoke. When they arrived, a single-family home was on fire and they found out two people were still inside on the second floor.
A man and a woman were both taken out of the house by firefighters and taken to Elliott Hospital. The woman was pronounced dead and the man is in serious condition.
Officials have not released the name of the victim at this time.
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At this time, investigators are looking into the cause of the fire and are trying to determine if a power outage in the area played a factor. The fire is not currently considered suspicious.
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Diane Durgin, 67, is accused of shooting at a Black man who inadvertently drove to her property after a prearranged truck part sale, prosecutors said.
A New Hampshire woman is accused of violating the state’s Civil Rights Act four times after she allegedly shot at a man because he was Black, prosecutors said.
Diane Durgin, 67, of Weare, N.H. could face up to a $5,000 fine for each violation she is found to have committed, the office of New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella said in a press release Tuesday.
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Durgin is also charged with criminal threatening against a person with a deadly weapon and attempted first degree assault with a deadly weapon, Michael Garrity, a media representative for the New Hampshire Attorney General, said in an emailed statement to Boston.com.
Durgin had a final pre-trial conference last week, Garrity said.
In a civil complaint filed Tuesday, Durgin is accused of threatening physical force against the victim, the AG said. Prosecutors asked the court to issue a preliminary injunction barring Durgin from repeating her alleged behavior and from contacting the victim and his family.
During the morning hours of Oct. 20, 2024, the victim claims, he “mistakenly” drove to Durgin’s home after a prearranged purchase of a truck part with a seller online, prosecutors wrote as part of their request for an injunction.
When the man — whom prosecutors identified in court documents as X.G. — arrived, Durgin allegedly stepped out of her home and approached his car with a gun “holstered by her waist,” prosecutors wrote.
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Upon noticing that X.G. was Black, Durgin allegedly “removed her gun and pointed it at X.G.,” prosecutors said in the injunction request.
While X.G. explained that he was lost, Durgin called the victim a “Black mother[expletive],” and threatened to “kill him,” prosecutors allege.
As the victim attempted to drive away, Durgin allegedly took her gun and fired two shots at the fleeing man’s car, missing both times, the AG’s office said.
While on the phone with a dispatcher, Durgin allegedly said she shot the man’s car because the victim is Black, the AG said.
“The guy is Black. And he, he…he says he’s meeting someone here and I think he’s coming here to steal,” Durgin allegedly said.
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Police located X.G. and brought him to the Weare Police Department, stopping along the way at the correct seller’s home to complete the truck part purchase, prosecutors wrote in court documents.
To prove a violation of the New Hampshire Civil Rights Act, the AG must show that Durgin “interfered or attempted to interfere with the rights of the victim to engage in lawful activities by threatening to engage in or actually engage in physical force or violence, when such actual or threatening conduct was motivated by race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity, or disability,” prosecutors said.
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