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April 1, 2013 Edition
Focus on Banking & Finance

CEI loan fund seeks 'socially conscious' investors

James McCarthy

For 11 years, Saeed Saeed and his wife, Anaam Jabbir, ran a flourishing take-out restaurant in a suburb of Baghdad. They sold falafel, shawarma and other Iraqi fast foods.

  • Other
    Other

    March madness

    Carol Coultas

    It's one of those unhappy coincidences that I am inevitably trying to pull together my taxes at the same time I'm trying to update our family's FAFSA form.

  • Blease's new call center eyeing government clients

    Darren Fishell

    Technology was radically different when Heather Blease launched EnvisioNet's Brunswick call center in 1995. So was the business model.

  • Other
    Other

    Budget hearings progress, PL90 under fire

    Darren Fishell

    Legislators are scheduled to meet through April 5 to hear public testimony on Gov.

  • Focus on Banking & Finance
    Focus on Banking & Finance

    Financial industry wrestles with compliance costs

    Matt Dodge

    Terry Bishop says you know an industry is clamping down when your regulatory burden falls just short of that placed on sustained nuclear fission.

Today's Poll

Mid-summer check in: How has summer tourism been so far?
Poll Description

We're roughly halfway into the unofficial summer tourism season, with Memorial Day and July 4th behind us. 

Last week, AAA forecast record traffic for the holiday weekend, particularly with July 4 falling on a Friday — and the heavy traffic heading south on the Maine Turnpike Sunday evening bears out that forecast. 

At the same time, rainy weekends have also been part of the summer mix. 

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