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Thursday, June 24th, 2010, 6:23 pm
Maine hostile to all-important start-ups, report says
Are start-up costs choking Maine businesses? That’s the question posed by the conservative think-tank Maine Heritage Policy Center after releasing a series of reports this week on job creation in Maine. The reports find that the state created just over …
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010, 8:49 pmHomeowner defaults persist despite recovery
According to the quarterly report presented June 10 to the Maine Legislature, more than 20,000 Maine homeowners have defaulted on their mortgages in the past year.
About the editor
Dan MacLeod is editor of The Haul, the Observer’s business and economics blog, and executive editor of the Free Press, the student newspaper at the University of Southern Maine. He can be reached on Twitter @DSMacLeod and by e-mail at dan@maineobserver.net.