On those topics and others, both executive councilors Colin Van Ostern, D-Concord, and Chris Sununu, R-Newfield, offered answers with qualifying nuances before a business crowd at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics.
Sununu said a state minimum wage law should be the same as the federal standard, $7.25 an hour.
Van Ostern did not spell out what he would support, but offered a starting point.