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From the Editor: With 2020 tourism season slipping away, industry shows its resilience
Updated: June 29, 2020Maine’s $6.9 billion tourism industry is seeing its key season slip away. Restaurant and hotel restrictions and quarantines on visitors are forcing some businesses to close and others to hang on with CARES Act funds or even GoFundMe appeals.
Updated: June 29, 2020 - From the Editor
From the Editor: Pandemic’s impact on energy use a good time to ask questions
Updated: June 15, 2020Maine’s energy costs are a frequent topic of discussion.
Maine ranks No. 11 among states in per capita energy expenditures, but just No. 27 in energy consumption per capita, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Updated: June 15, 2020 - From the Editor
Response to pandemic has been inspiring
Updated: June 1, 2020By now, we’ve heard numerous stories about manufacturers converting operations to make face masks, hand sanitizer, swabs or even vaccines.
Updated: June 1, 2020 - Letter to the editor
Letter to the Editor: Seeing both sides of pandemic’s impact on restaurants
Updated: May 18, 2020A reader says he views the crisis from the perspectives of both the hospitality and the real estate industries. He urges flexibility as Maine enters "uncharted territory."
Updated: May 18, 2020 - From the Editor
From the Editor: As pandemic gets entrenched, businesses find ways to adapt
Updated: May 18, 2020The timing of this small business issue comes at a time when small businesses are in disarray, struggling to find their way during the COVID-19 crisis.
Updated: May 18, 2020 - From the Editor
Letter from the Editor: With economy in turmoil, investment pros look to calm investors
Updated: May 4, 2020We have all watched with degrees of shock as pieces of the economy have crumbled in the past several weeks, with the pandemic shutting down many businesses and keeping people confined to their homes.
Updated: May 4, 2020 - From the Editor
Letter from the Editor: A strange and turbulent spring
Updated: April 20, 2020Unemployment claims have skyrocketed. Various industries are hanging on by a thread, while manufacturers and a select few retailers try to stay in control as “essential” businesses. There’s been a scramble for federal relief funds.
Updated: April 20, 2020 - From the Editor
From the Editor: Crazy times, but businesses move quickly to adapt
Updated: April 6, 2020In recent weeks, we’ve witnessed one of the more stressful periods for the economy and for our own personal safety.
Updated: April 6, 2020 
From the EditorFrom the Editor: Adapting to change, testing leadership
Updated: March 23, 2020As we honor the Business Leaders of the Year in the following pages, we face a challenge that’s testing everyone’s leadership skills.
Updated: March 23, 2020- Letters
Letters to the Editor: Overtime rule reaction; 'we need jobs'
Updated: February 24, 2020Readers respond to a Feb. 12 Mainebiz Daily Report story on a bill, now in the Legislature, which would increase the earnings cap that determines whether salaried workers are eligible for overtime pay.
Updated: February 24, 2020 - From the Editor
From precision manufacturing to podcasting, technology is changing the workplace
Updated: February 24, 2020Nearly any job done today relies on technology that’s ever changing, requiring ongoing training and resources.
Our focus on workplace technology offers a glimpse of the broad range of changes.
Updated: February 24, 2020 - Letters to the Editor
Letters: Outdated advice in the #MeToo era; reaction to Hydro-Quebec column
Updated: February 10, 2020Readers respond to two recent columns: advice from "Ask ACE" on dealing with an arrogant boss, and a "Politics & Co." look at Hydro-Quebec's support of the proposed Central Maine Power Co. transmission corridor.
Updated: February 10, 2020 - From the Editor
Southern Maine’s ever-evolving business climate
Updated: February 10, 2020While this issue focuses on southern Maine, there’s a recurring theme in some of these stories.
Updated: February 10, 2020 - From the Editor
Maine’s real estate and development industry keeps chugging along
Updated: January 27, 2020Listening to the speakers at the recent MEREDA event, the outlook conference that's annually among Maine's most significant business events, there seemed to be more optimism than last year.
Updated: January 27, 2020 - From the Editor
A year for optimism, but also some uncertainty
Updated: January 13, 2020Each year Mainebiz asks as many business people as we can just what’s in store for the coming year.
Updated: January 13, 2020 
CommentaryHere is what you can expect from Maine’s housing market this year
Updated: January 13, 2020As we start a new decade, housing markets have undergone a significant transition from both 20 and 10 years ago. The new normal that has emerged will have a profound effect on Mainers.
Updated: January 13, 2020
