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  • Gorham Savings raising LaunchPad purse to $50K

    Lori Valigra March 16, 2016

    Gorham Savings Bank's $30K LaunchPad Competition for early-stage companies will become the $50K competition in its fourth year this June 7, company President and CEO Christopher Emmons told Mainebiz.

    Lori Valigra March 16, 2016

  • Chocolate-maker among finalists for year-long fellowship

    March 14, 2016

    Rockland chocolatier and founder of Bixby & Co. Kate McAleer is among 30 national finalists for the Tory Burch Foundation's inaugural Fellows Competition, a year-long comprehensive fellowship program that offers women entrepreneurs access to

    March 14, 2016

  • Digital age prompts 'safe trading zone' in Paris

    March 11, 2016

    Although buying and selling these days often takes place on websites like Craigslist or eBay, the physical handoff of goods and money often takes place in person to avoid the high expenses and the occasional hassle of shipping a product.

    March 11, 2016

  • Crisis averted: Byrnes will be open for St. Patrick's Day following flood

    March 10, 2016

    Mainers looking to celebrate their varying degrees of Irish Heritage at Byrnes Irish Pub in Brunswick will have even more of a reason to celebrate this St. Patrick's Day, as owner Joe Byrnes announced that the pub would reopen on Saturday after

    March 10, 2016

  • No conspiracy here: Masonry adapts to sustainability trends

    March 10, 2016

    Boothbay Harbor-based Norton Stone & Tile, Joe Norton's business of building walls of stone and tile in artistic patterns, has proven profitable for more than a decade, the Boothbay Register reported.

    March 10, 2016

  • Portland media company sells events to Australian company

    March 9, 2016

    Diversified Communications, a Portland-based international media company, announced the sale of its Good Food & Wine Shows and Fitness & Health Expos that take place Down Under.

    March 9, 2016

  • With purchase, Portland pharmacy expands to Midwest

    March 9, 2016

    Portland-based specialty pharmacy Apothecary By Design announced on Tuesday that it has purchased Healy Pharmacy of Warrenville, Ill.

    March 9, 2016

  • Tattoos for you too, Paris

    March 9, 2016

    Can a tattoo parlor help with the revitalization of Market Square in Paris? Why not? According to the Advertiser Democrat, Explosive Ink in Paris, Maine, was recently opened by Carlos Portillo.

    March 9, 2016

  • How To: Sublet your way around a commercial real estate shortage

    Justin Lamontagne March 7, 2016

    At its most basic level, subleasing gives tenants an opportunity and right to find replacement tenants for their own space if things change.

    Justin Lamontagne March 7, 2016

  • The entrepreneurs of Brunswick's TechPlace

    Lori Valigra March 7, 2016

    TechPlace, the entrepreneur incubator at Brunswick Landing, lacks the cacophony and frenetic energy of the typical Massachusetts or Silicon Valley startup space, and that's not a bad thing.

    Lori Valigra March 7, 2016

  • Village Capital to invest $50K to assist Maine startup

    March 4, 2016

    A Utah-based venture capital firm has announced that it will team up with a Maine group to assist a startup with financing in addition to connecting the entrepreneurs with potential investors and markets.

    March 4, 2016

  • Wilbur's Chocolate stays in the family with new owner

    March 3, 2016

    Two Maine chocolatiers and founders of the Freeport-based Wilbur's Of Maine Chocolate Confections have decided to hang up their aprons and call it a day, as Tom Wilbur and Catherine Carty-Wilbur announced they have passed ownership of their business

    March 3, 2016

  • Saco-based Vic’s under new ownership

    March 2, 2016

    A 52-year-old family-owned business in Saco is under new ownership, as Vic's Appliance Center has been acquired by Maine's largest independent retailer of appliances and mattresses, the Auburn-based Agren Appliance.

    March 2, 2016

  • Maine breweries to face off for The Maine Brewers' Cup

    March 1, 2016

    Ice hockey and beer — it's a combination that seems designed by a divine Canadian hand to be perfect. This Saturday, six Maine breweries will hit the ice at Thompson's Point in Portland for the ultimate prize: The Maine Brewers' Cup.

    March 1, 2016

  • Windham Renys the next “sweet spot”

    Laurie Schreiber February 28, 2016

    Renys, the family-owned discount department store, leased 27,000 square feet of corner space in the Windham Mall, on Route 302, for its 17th store.

    Laurie Schreiber February 28, 2016

  • USM, Maine Brewers' Guild partner on craft brewing

    Lori Valigra February 25, 2016

    With Maine's craft brewing industry frothing, the University of Southern Maine and the Maine Brewers' Guild on Thursday partnered on a Quality Assurance Lab to give students research opportunities and area brewers a local facility at which to assure

    Lori Valigra February 25, 2016

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Do you support an increase in Portland's minimum wage?
Poll Description

The Portland City Council is weighing a controversial proposed hike to the city’s minimum wage.

The proposal would increase the minimum wage from $15.50 per hour to $20 per hour within four years. (The statewide hourly minimum wage is $14.65.)

The proposal does not include a wage hike for tipped workers who are currently paid an hourly wage of $7.75, but employers are required to ensure that wages and tips combined total $15.50 per hour. 

While inflation pressures have made it hard to survive on the minimum wage, many business owners are concerned the hike would cut already thin margins. 

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