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From the Editor: Leadership skills honed by a pandemic
Updated: March 22, 2021A year ago, we were just grappling with the start of the pandemic. As fortune would have it, our Business Leaders of the Year were just being announced.
Updated: March 22, 2021 
From the EditorFrom the Editor: How Maine companies are investing in DEI
Updated: March 8, 2021This past year has brought us many lessons. COVID-19 has been only part of the challenge for business people, personally and professionally.
Updated: March 8, 2021- From the Editor
From the Editor: Capturing a fast-moving year
Updated: March 8, 2021This issue of Mainebiz has a mix of stories and themes that came into tighter focus in the past year.
Updated: March 8, 2021 - From the Editor
From the Editor: ‘Investment’ taking different forms in Maine
Updated: February 22, 2021Wealth management and retirement typically garner thoughts of investment portfolios, 401(k) plans and IRAs. But, as this issue illustrates, investments in Maine also include real estate and even art collection.
Updated: February 22, 2021 - From the Editor
From the Editor: Maine’s real estate juggernaut
Updated: February 8, 2021Bank branches, warehouse space, multistory greenhouses, self-storage units, hotels, retail redevelopment, coworking spaces.
Updated: February 8, 2021 - From the Editor
From the Editor: Even amid the crazy past year, housing remained a major story
Updated: January 25, 2021After all the country has gone through, from the pandemic to social unrest to political turmoil, Maine somehow fortified itself as a safe haven.
Updated: January 25, 2021 
From the EditorA year we won’t forget
Updated: December 27, 2020While the COVID-19 pandemic shut down so much of the economy for part of this year, it also laid bare some of the most enduring parts of the economy.
Updated: December 27, 2020- From the Editor
From the Editor: After last year’s turbulent ride, what’s ahead for 2021?
Updated: January 11, 2021While last year was a year we’ll never forget, no one seems quite certain what this year will look like.
Updated: January 11, 2021 - From the Editor
From the Editor: A different world for banking and finance
Updated: November 30, 2020Two-thousand-twenty will long be remembered as a time of historic change, and it’s not just because of COVID-19.
Updated: November 30, 2020 - From the Editor
Maine’s legal profession faces new trials
Updated: November 16, 2020Legal cases like the one over the May killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis have spurred heated discussion about race in America. But there’s also growing attention to race from the professionals handling the cases.
Updated: November 16, 2020 - From the Editor
From the Editor: Transportation helps ‘drive’ Maine’s economy
Updated: November 2, 2020Sorry for the bad pun, but without the Maine Turnpike and the transportation network — trains, trucks, ships and planes — there’s no trade going in or out.
Updated: November 2, 2020 - To the Editor
Letter: Maine aquaculture industry needs companies of all sizes
Updated: November 2, 2020The clean, cold waters of Maine produce arguably some of the best seafood in the world, both wild caught and farmed.
Updated: November 2, 2020 - From the Editor
From the Editor: Coastal economies slowed not stalled by pandemic
Updated: October 19, 2020A recent study commissioned by HospitalityMaine shows COVID’s impact on the hospitality industry has been $1.7 billion in lost revenue.
Updated: October 19, 2020 - From the Editor
From the Editor: Leadership at a time when it’s needed
Updated: October 5, 2020There’s probably no harder time to run a business or nonprofit than when the world around you is swirling with chaos and uncertainty.
Updated: October 5, 2020 
CommentaryCommentary: The arts mean business, and Maine’s performing arts are in trouble
Updated: September 27, 2020Maine’s performing arts organizations are in trouble. And their closures, furloughs, and layoffs are negatively impacting downtowns, small businesses, and communities — for all of which the performing arts mean business.
Updated: September 27, 2020- From the Editor
From the Editor: The health care business adjusts to an ever-changing world
Updated: September 21, 2020In the past six months, we’ve seen a huge shift in how doctors practice, how patients receive care and how hospitals respond to crisis.
Updated: September 21, 2020
