Analysts believe a sustained recovery is under way with marked increases in new-home sales and home construction.
2012
Posted inBusiness
Eroded faith in stocks persists
The selling by ordinary investors despite a sustained bull market defies history.
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Posted inOpinion
Maine Voices: Culture, not gun ownership, is the culprit in tragedies like Sandy Hook
Citizens must be allowed not just arms, but arms that are equal to those carried by their enemies.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Letters to the editor: Arming our teachers: Two views
The slaughter at Sandy Hook Elementary stunned the nation. Now that there is time for rational thought, it’s being buried under a sea of emotional reporting and political agendas. We hear everything about the grieving relatives, but little about exactly what happened or why. Those answers will take time, time for thought certain parties don’t […]
Posted inBusiness
SeaWorld may dive into the stock market
The theme-park franchise, owned by private equity firm Blackstone Group, is planning to go public.
Posted inBusiness
College kids need to clean up – online, anyway
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Samantha Grossman wasn’t always thrilled with the impression that emerged when people Googled her name. “It wasn’t anything too horrible,” she said. “I just have a common name. There would be pictures, college partying pictures, that weren’t of me, things I wouldn’t want associated with me.” So before she graduated from Syracuse […]
Posted inNew England Patriots, Sports
How special is Patriots’ Slater? He’s Pro Bowl special – again
Matthew Slater, who never started a game in college, is ‘always at full speed,’ said Devin McCourty.
Posted inNews
Ayla’s mom upset at meeting delays
The mother of missing Ayla Reynolds said investigators canceled a meeting that was planned last week, and she’s getting frustrated by continued delays.
Posted inNews
Maine officials acting amid a surge in gonorrhea
The 441 infections in 2012, many involving people in their 20s, is quadruple the number reported in 2008.
Posted inNew England Patriots, Sports
Brady, Belichick lead Patriots by example
It’s no fluke that the quarterback and coach share the NFL’s best tandem record.