Coping with a recent COVID uptick, lingering inflation, and tight labor market conditions, Maine’s economy keeps fighting. Employers, employees, and job-seekers alike are showing unprecedented resilience, fighting adversity in ways that should make us all optimistic about the future. Tourism is undoubtedly an important piece of Maine’s economic puzzle. Millions of people flooded the streets […]

The amount of money that will be sunk into any transition concerns me – and that’s without getting into the politics of it all.

I realized I had a problem with internet shopping the day my 13-year-old niece looked at the packing slip in a box that had just arrived and yelled, “What — $200 for a pair of jeans?!” I can explain. I have never spent $200 on a pair of jeans in my life. Kirkland, after all, […]

Nancy Pelosi recently announced her intent to run for re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives. Pelosi has occupied that seat since 1987. In nearly four-decades of service, she has accumulated political power and financial resources, earned tremendous influence over Democratic policymaking, and advanced the interests of many of her constituents. She has also contributed […]