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Going into 2019, there's been a lot of talk about the economy and where it's headed. With the stock market taking a rocky ride, forecasts of doom-and-gloom abound.
A topic that has dominated business talk in the past year has been companies' challenges in finding qualified workers.
As we wrap up 2018 and look toward 2019, that has been the discussion we've replayed over and over.
I was assigned the banking beat way back in the Savings & Loan crisis of the early 1990s and several years later worked for American Banker at a time when leveraged buyouts and dot-com deals were making headlines.
Gov. Paul LePage's impact on business will likely be debated for some time.
Setting that debate aside for now, it's going to be interesting what effect Gov.-elect Janet Mills will have on business.
It may not be surprising that in an issue about transportation and infrastructure, we're once again pounding the drum about the labor shortage.
In this issue we honor 11 business people who are changing the Maine economy for the better.
We all have our own mental image of a “startup.” Whether the idea is formed by pitch competitions like Greenlight Maine or Top Gun, the Wall Street Journal or Inc.
I could not agree more with a letter you published recently from Thomas Harmon (See letter to the editor, Aug.
This issue of the Bangor and Northern Maine focus looks at a region that's undergoing major changes.
I have been a reader of Mainebiz for several years and enjoy the publication a great deal. I have a startup business in Scarborough and commute between Manhattan for other income, to sustain this venture.
This year Mainebiz takes note of 10 years of honoring the Women to Watch.
In addition to writing about this year's honorees, we have a commemorative issue with updates on 44 honorees from the past decade.
We run lists all the time that offer Maine's economy or business climate in the context of the United States.
Maureen Milliken, a staff writer at Mainebiz, writes about planned redevelopment of parts of the former Nasson College campus (see Page 18).
Just in the past few weeks, Mainebiz has had a number of stories about energy projects.
The fundamental question for Maine business leaders is this: How can we create model workplaces and business cultures that ensure productive, competitive, equitable and respectful environments in which employees thrive in, customers admire and