LIKE all businesses, McLane Middleton has had to adapt to the pandemic. Many attorneys work from home rather than at the law firm’s offices, which include its headquarters on the 10th floor at 900 Elm St.

AS HOSPITALS continue to struggle with losses in the tens of millions, outpatient providers like Bedford Ambulatory Surgical Care Center are beginning to see steady patient traffic.

NEIL LEVESQUE knows more than anyone what could lie ahead for President Trump and the First Lady.

LAST WEEK, a liberal freshman congressman kicked off a webinar for a conservative think tank.

Salespeople know some deals take a long time to close. A commercial real estate broker in Denver once told me he courted an office tower tenant for 18 years.

BEFORE the pandemic cleared out business parks and schools, and every home sprouted an office, few of us had ever heard of Zoom.

OVER the five years Sam Asano wrote “Let’s Invent” for the Union Leader, he almost always delivered his columns on time.

PEAK CORPORATE COUNSEL has locations in Manchester and the Boston area, but what the law firm pays for office space every month is about enough to cover a deluxe hotel room for a single night.

Geno Miller’s escape from the dangers of inner city life outside Washington, D.C., was a football scholarship to the University of New Hampshire.

On my way home from work Tuesday, I stopped at the Hannaford on Hanover Street just in time to watch several fire trucks respond to an alarm at East Side Plaza, which suffered a power outage during the early evening storm.

Chris Duhaime planned for the worst case scenario before he launched his new business.

RICK BARON had just launched his plumbing and HVAC business when COVID-19 reached New Hampshire, and then things got quiet.

COVERING your face with a mask before you mix in public is rapidly becoming as commonplace as strapping on a seatbelt before you turn the key in the ignition.

THE FOURTH OF JULY weekend is the apex of the summer season. Barbecues. Beaches. Fireworks.

DEAN KAMEN invented a portable dialysis machine, a stair-climbing wheelchair, a bionic arm and a water purification device.

A PANDEMIC robs lobbyists of their greatest weapon: personal contact.

COMEBACK? What comeback?

THE PHOTOS that book-ended the A section of Thursday’s Union Leader were haunting and hopeful.

AS NEW HAMPSHIRE’S BEACHES get ready to open Monday with pandemic protocols, my mind is on the slopes and the last networking event I attended.

“ENJOY OUR PARKS!”

DURING these uncertain times, these challenging times, these trying times, these will-we-ever-get-over-this-pandemic times, I’ve been looking for a good excuse to bring Bob Marley to the business stage.

IN THE blink of an eye, they all closed their doors. How fast can they come back?

AS IT goes virtual this year, the New Hampshire Business Committee for the Arts awards event shifts from a one-night affair to a weeklong celebration, including a raffle of original artworks designed to help raise money for artists the group champions.

KIDS in the Queen City aren’t going hungry on the weekends, thanks to a program spearheaded by Southern New Hampshire University that aims to continue through the end of the school year.

BACK IN JANUARY, Mark Stebbins was marveling in the success of the AC Hotel Portsmouth. He and his XSS Hotels partner, Leo Xarras, had just opened the Marriott property.

The handshake is on shaky ground in the year of COVID-19.

Welcome to the virtual waiting room.

“Like everyone else, the BIA wants to grow younger.”

Pittsfield bakery’s plant was leveled by fire 6 years ago, but company rebuilt.