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Local, state and national business news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inBusiness, Health, Maine, Politics
Task force calls for reforms to regulate hidden hospital fees
A group, formed in response to a Press Herald investigation, recommends changes to Maine law to address often confusing and frustrating hospital billing practices.
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Posted inBusiness
Walmart to build or convert 150-plus stores in next 5 years. It hasn’t opened new stores in 3 years
Walmart plans to build or convert more than 150 U.S. stores in the next 5 years, while continuing to remodel existing stores
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Proposal would extend program for low-income electricity customers struggling to pay bills
A law that helps customers catch up on past-due electric bills by forgoing a portion of the past amount is set to expire in September.
Posted inBusiness, News
Major automakers may be using Chinese aluminum produced with forced labor, rights group says
China is accused of running labor transfer programs in which minorities are forced to toil in factories as part of a longstanding campaign of assimilation and mass detention.
Posted inBusiness, News
More than 200 staffers with Chicago Tribune and 6 other newsrooms begin 24-hour strike
Strikers are protesting what they say are years of ‘slow-walked’ contract negotiations and unfair wages.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, Morning Sentinel
Belgrade bookstore to move to Colby College building in downtown Waterville
Oliver & Friends Bookshop plans to move in the spring to the ground floor of Colby College’s Bill & Joan Alfond Main Street Commons at 150 Main St.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Business
Songs by Taylor Swift, Drake and more are starting to disappear from TikTok. Here’s why
Universal Music Group said that it would no longer allow its music on TikTok following the Wednesday expiration of a licensing deal between the 2 companies.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, Morning Sentinel
Tim Hortons in Clinton makes final cup of coffee as Maine locations drop to 6
The abrupt closure of the shop, which opened about eight years ago, left 10 employees scrambling.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Domino’s delivers $25,000 to Farmington in Plowing for Pizza campaign
Farmington is the eighth town nationwide to receive money, which will go toward a new sidewalk plow machine.