We already knew that millennials don’t trust people in general. Now we also know how little they trust people (and institutions) in particular. Perhaps with good reason. In March, a Pew survey made headlines because it found that just one in five millennials believes that “generally speaking, most people can be trusted,” a much lower […]
May 2014
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Helping out the little guy
Large companies provide mentorship, instruction and loans to small startups, and everyone benefits.
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Datebook
Tuesday Tourism and Hospitality Eagle and Eaglet Awards, beginning at 5 p.m., presented by the Greater Bangor Convention and Visitors Bureau and held at Spectacular Event Center in Bangor. For more information and to purchase tickets go to www.VisitBangorMaine.com or call 947-5205. Wednesday Maine Business Hall of Fame, starting at 5:30 p.m., Junior Achievement’s 25th […]
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Charles Lawton: Today’s employers want to invest in human capital
Headline speakers at big conferences nearly always begin with some big, bold, attention-grabbing assertion. “Maine’s economic past,” I was told recently at a conference on the promise of broadband technology, “was transforming natural resources into useful things and sending them out into the world on ships, rail cars and trucks. Maine’s economic future,” the speaker […]
Posted inJournal Tribune
Susan Kimball: For Down East gravedigger, life’s story unfolds one plot at a time
Everard Hall of Milbridge is a member of a fading profession.
Posted inJournal Tribune
Bill Nemitz: In plan for Guard unit, ‘Commander in Chief’ bringing up the rear
Explanations by Gov. Paul LePage and current National Guard officers of what is in store for Maine’s 133rd Engineer Battalion have yet to pass the straight-face test.
Posted inLakes Region Weekly
We, the winter-weary, wait for rhubarb
Plus a kid-friendly recipe for Honeyed Rhubarb-Mint Popsicles
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Monsanto and Maine: A look at Maine’s sometimes fractious relationship with the GMO giant
It has evolved to lawsuits, a labeling law and a public now deeply suspicious of or deeply confused about what this giant corporation does.
Posted inNews, Politics
Issue of residency taking over Poliquin-Raye race
The Republican candidates both tout their history in the 2nd District, but that’s not the whole story.
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Bill Nemitz: In plan for Guard unit, ‘Commander in Chief’ bringing up the rear
Explanations by Gov. Paul LePage and current National Guard officers of what is in store for Maine’s 133rd Engineer Battalion have yet to pass the straight-face test.