June 30, 2014 Edition

News

🔒Energy is a cost of doing business anywhere you’re located

But in Maine the issue is particularly vexing, as everyone here knows, because the heating season seems so, um, enduring. I was reminded of that on a chilly morning in […]

Energy & Utilities

🔒The wind industry’s relative youth means fewer traditional barriers for women in Maine

Tourists visiting the Portland waterfront stop to watch the screeching seagulls coasting in the gentle wind.To them,...

News

🔒LePage has second thought about nonprofit bonds

The state said farewell to a controversial Rhode Island-based consulting firm in mid-June after finding multiple instances...

Energy & Utilities

🔒Businesses move forward to the future with reusable energy sources

A century-old farmhouse, winsome llamas, a flock of chickens, rolling fields encircled by dense woods and distant...

In Short

🔒Newsworthy people and performances

New hiresPeoplesChoice Credit Union in Saco recently hired Heather Sheerin as residential mortgage processor. Previously, Sheerin was...

Higher education

🔒Have fun at work and develop employee loyalty

In today's business environment, employees strive to have their work life serve and enrich their personal life....

How to

🔒Respond when a mistake happens

Whether we like it or not, we all make mistakes. Some are large, some are small, but...

Government & Politics

🔒How Portland’s planning head helped speed up the city’s permitting process

When Jeff Levine took over as director of Portland's Planning and Urban Development Department two years ago,...

Economic development

🔒Front Street Shipyard creates a buzz about Belfast

Sailing vessels and yachts cruising from Camden to Castine now have good reason to take a left...

Energy & Utilities

🔒Should Maine be smug about smog?

Maine environmentalists say the state already is well positioned to meet the first national carbon emission limits,...

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