The president spoke about how the economy is recovering from the pandemic and what his administration has done to pay for infrastructure improvements.
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Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Maine businesses expect strong finish to summer tourism season
A sunny Labor Day weekend has helped tourism-dependent business make up for a slow, rainy start.
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Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Commentary: Businesses need reform of asylum seeker work authorization
Lots of red tape stands between new Mainers and the labor force. Fortunately, a common-sense solution is on the table.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Maine cannabis regulators consider new rules to expand consumer access
The agency regulating the sale of adult-use cannabis in Maine is proposing a new set of rules designed to increase consumer access. The changes, which come amid record-breaking sales, are primarily based on two bills passed in the Legislature this year: one intended to reduce the stigma around cannabis and another to correct an oversight […]
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Commentary: Nuclear power could save our air quality. At what cost to the water?
You know it was a remarkable week when dumping tons of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean wasn’t even the lead story. That’s right: While much of the globe’s attention was on the former American president’s legal battles and the mug shot seen around the world, Japan started its 30-year plan to release the diluted […]
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Commentary: Labor Day’s forgotten older workers
When we think of workers on Labor Day, who comes to mind? Chances are, it’s not the millions of older workers still toiling in our nation’s home care and nursing facilities, cleaning our office buildings, hustling around carrying boxes in big corporate warehouses, driving long-haul trucks or sweating in the fields to produce our food. […]
Posted inMaine, News
Erosion on Chebeague Island seen as warning to other coastal communities
Multiple sites are being monitored along Maine’s southern coast, but an intertidal nature preserve on Chebeague Island has changed most of all.
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Sept. 4, 1986: Samantha Smith’s mother sues airline that crashed and killed her daughter 13 months ago, man arrested and another sought in Augusta shooting, and it’s time to reserve your lobster…plates, that is
Visit Centralmaine.com/archive to view nearly 200 years’ worth of history at your fingertips.
Posted inCommunity, Kennebec Journal, Morning Sentinel
Forester to offer tour of active sustainable timber harvest in Fayette Sept. 11
FAYETTE — A public tour is scheduled for 5-6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 11, of an active sustainable timber harvest demonstration at Kennebec Land Trust’s Oak Hill property, located on Norton Road. Maine forester Harold Burnett of Two Trees Forestry will review the rationale for, and the expectations of, the selective harvest on a portion of […]