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  • Banks, wealth management firms gear up for new fiduciary rule

    James McCarthy

    Maine banks, wealth management firms and other financial advisors who work with retirement plans or provide retirement planning advice are gearing up to meet a new fiduciary rule from the Department of Labor that's scheduled to be gradually phased in beginning next April.

  • How To's
    How To's

    Prepare a data center for disaster recovery

    Mike Reed

    The top 15 employers in the state of Maine are all medical centers, universities, financial institutions or government entities. All of these organizations have something else in common — they have serious privacy and security concerns and are under pressure to protect their business systems, applications and data.

  • Take advantage of new tax incentives for year-end equipment financing

    Stephen Krolikowski

    Forward-thinking business leaders should consider acquiring new or updated equipment before the end of 2016 to take advantage of legislation that both expands deductions and extends depreciation benefits for qualifying equipment purchases.

  • Business advice that's free and anonymous

    Lori Valigra

    They come to be judged without being pre-judged. That's the premise of the House of Genius, where 10 panelists from firemen to financiers share business advice based on a single question presented by each of two entrepreneurial companies.

  • Opinion
    Opinion

    Maine needs TIFs that would benefit communities, businesses and workers

    Jennifer Mckenna

    Many Maine communities use Tax Increment Financing to provide incentives to corporations and developers to attract new jobs and jumpstart major construction projects, from business parks to hotels to condominiums.

  • How 'plywood on steroids' reduces construction time and payroll costs

    James McCarthy

    Sometimes referred to as “plywood on steroids,” CLT and related engineered wood products such as nail laminated and glue-laminated timber have been identified by the Maine Forest Products Council as among the forest products with growing potential to boost the state's forest products industry.

  • Advice: Free and anonymous

    Lori Valigra

    There's no shortage of opinions about the usefulness of advice. Take Lucy van Pelt's psychiatry booth in the comic strip “Peanuts,” where she tells the depressed Charlie Brown, “Snap out of it, five cents please.”

  • In Short
    In Short

    IN SHORT

    New hiresVerrill Dana, a law firm in Portland, hired Anya Endsley, Samuel Baldwin, Christopher Monroe and Michael Kebede as associates.

Today's Poll

Is your business making preparations or changing plans because of the April 8 solar eclipse?
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Poll Description

With the Great Eclipse of 2024 just days away, people and businesses are preparing for the solar spectacle.

A hospitality industry report estimates that 1 in 5 Americans who travel are likely to hit the road in order to glimpse the eclipse on April 8. It will place parts of 15 states in darkness.

Maine will receive anywhere from 7,000 to 27,000 visitors, according to one forecast. Hotels, inns, campgrounds and other lodgings are already booked full, as Mainebiz reported Feb. 29.

Other businesses — both inside and outside the path of totality — are also making plans.