October 29, 2012 Edition

How to

🔒How a lease agreement can make or break your business

I was recently listening to a podcast interview with a blogger who specializes in social media. She stressed the importance of sometimes writing for a mass audience as opposed your […]

Government & Politics

🔒No cheers here for Three Ring Binder

To the editor:The cacophony celebrating the completion of Three Ring Binder and its supposed impact on high-speed...

Energy & Utilities

🔒Publisher launches Web-based cruising service

John Hanson is known for his ideas. Some of them are pretty weird. Like creating the World...

News

🔒Auto shop owner flags down NASCAR for Camp Sunshine

In early September, Windham Automotive owner Ron Eby was named one of four finalists for the NASCAR...

How to

🔒Cash is king for a reason. Here’s how to monitor yours.

We often hear "cash is king" in business. Yet, too many businesses don't monitor their cash position...

Government & Politics

🔒New planning office quiet

How the state's new planning agency will meet a Dec. 1 deadline to recommend two consecutive years...

Banking & Finance

🔒Tech innovators connect at MTI conference

An arena in Lewiston buzzed recently, but instead of its usual hockey fans, several hundred entrepreneurs, investors...

In Short

🔒New hires, promotions, appointments and company news

New hiresPenobscot Community Health Care in Bangor recently announced the addition of four new general practice dental...

Energy & Utilities

🔒Electing to do the right thing

I happened to share a meal recently with two colleagues who both spent some time working for...

Economic development

🔒Maine developers lead the effort to reuse shuttered schools

The 40-year history of Avesta Housing's efforts to create affordable housing in southern Maine is neatly laid...

Real Estate & Construction

🔒New Associated General Contractors of Maine CEO lays out plan to revive the industry

At its peak in 2006, Maine's construction industry had 32,000 jobs. Since the 2008 financial crash, the...

Government & Politics

🔒Capitol Update: Revenue down, tax cuts pledged, tax break report probed

Revenues further in the red$4.7M drop in expected income taxSales taxes down $943KAfter the first three months...

Real Estate & Construction

🔒Wyman & Simpson embraces composite tech in niche markets

Founded in 1924 by a pair of highway engineers, Richmond-based engineering and construction firm Wyman & Simpson...

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