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The Wrap: Brea Lu Cafe finds new home in Westbrook
Also, Market Street bar Maps reopens this week after months of renovations, a farm-supplied butcher shop expands in Leeds and Durham, and CBD launches a new line of spirit barrel-aged coffee.
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After so-so year, Maine tourism industry hopes to grow more in 2023
Tourists spent over $8.6 billion in Maine during 2022, an increase of 10% above the previous year.
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Maine Flower Show comes to an end
Organizers say it's doubtful the popular show that gave winter-weary Mainers a breath of spring will ever return.
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The Biden administration is attempting to lower the cost of fixed offshore wind and support a domestic supply chain for the industry.
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Their petition is a response to OpenAI's recent release of GPT-4, a more advanced successor to its widely used AI chatbot ChatGPT.
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The Senate findings pose new problems for rival UBS as it tries to take over the long-troubled Swiss bank.
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Federal inspectors have repeatedly found blocked emergency exits, fire hazards and boxes stacked to the point that they could collapse onto workers.
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FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried now faces 13 charges after he was arrested in the Bahamas in December and brought to the United States soon afterward.
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The Federal Reserve is considering whether stronger bank rules are needed to prevent a similar bank failure in the future.
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Farmers say they spend extra time and money raising cattle strictly on grass, and mislabeling cheats them and people who are paying extra for something they're not getting.
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AI is not just screening resumes anymore. It's also conducting job interviews. Here's what to expect and how to do well in an interview with AI.
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After months of delay, Musk is gleefully promising that Saturday is the deadline for celebrities, journalists, and others who'd been verified for free to pony up or lose their legacy status.
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The Global Wind Energy Council points to incentives for renewable energy development in the Inflation Reduction Act in the United States, and policies in Europe and China that further expand the role of renewables.
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The high court will decide whether a Florida woman who has filed over 600 federal lawsuits against hotel owners and operators over alleged ADA violations can sue hotels where she doesn't intend to stay.
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Members of both parties say they’re open to legislation that would punish executives for their role in the bank failures.
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The American restaurant chain serving Mexican fast food closed its Augusta location after employees were the first in the country to file for union representation.
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The vast majority of the plastic that comes off Maine boats every spring goes to landfills or incinerators.
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The Maine Democrat is proposing legislation that would help farms and food systems reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040.
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Sugarhouses say the event gets more and more popular every year.
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A straight-talking survivor, Sally Wigon took over her father's Free Street office supply company more than seven decades ago. And she didn't come all this way just to retire.
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A lawsuit involving more than 2 million pages of evidence will confront jurors, who must decide whether Central Maine Power's parent has vested rights in the project Mainers voted to kill in 2021.
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Marketing late-night meals as sleep enhancers is a food-industry tactic to create a so-called fourth meal. But some studies have shown late-night snacks can worsen your sleep.
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The fight over the proposed New England Clean Energy Connect hydropower transmission line has become a multimillion-dollar industry of its own.
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His prophecy that computing capacity would grow exponentially – and with decreasing costs – was dubbed Moore's Law and became the standard that scientists for decades raced successfully to meet.
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He is indicted for securities fraud, commodities fraud and conspiracy to defraud and engage in market manipulation.
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He will be doing his front-line shifts as the company faces unrest in its workforce.
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The two said they were paid as tipped workers – half the state's minimum wage – even when they did work that earned them no tips.
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The sector claims the biggest share of market value in the S&P 500 – about 25%.
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Shortly after taking over the company last October, Musk said he would expand a preexisting paid version of Twitter to include paying for a blue check mark.
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The poll also finds that those earning at least $100,000 annually are more likely to expect their situation will improve in the year ahead.
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For Absolem Cider Co., Run Amok Mead and Sidereal Farm Brewing, digging in and growing their craft beverage businesses is as important as the drinks they are making.
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The crusade shows how perceptions of Big Tech have changed among typically pro-business Republicans.
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Still, much of the focus is on Deutsche Bank, whose stock tumbled 8.5% in Germany.
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But European leaders downplayed any risk of a possible crisis at a summit Friday.
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As the industry battles federal right-whale regulations, L.D. 710 calls for allocating 20% of the fishery's license surcharges – about $380,000 a year – to the legal defense fund through 2030.
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A bill to punish oil companies for profiting from price spikes at the pump has passed the California Senate.
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Traders were still largely betting the Fed will cut rates later this year.
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National Labor Relations Board staffers who counted the ballots said 254 voted against the union while 186 favored it.
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In one of the most dramatic moments of the hearing, Republican Rep. Kat Cammack played a TikTok video showing a shooting gun with a caption that included the House committee.
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The latest data – which showed last month's pace was the strongest since August – suggest the housing market may finally be gaining its footing after last year's rapid rise in mortgage rates.
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Charter Communications says it will bring high-speed internet connectivity to underserved areas, and is buying Bee Line Cable in Madison.
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Lawmakers will grill the company’s CEO on Thursday about concerns over user data falling into the hands of the Chinese government.
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The satellite carrier says the dispute was always financial and 'never about limiting conservative voices.'
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The Chevrolet Camaro has for decades been the dream car of many teenage American males
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Environmental Action Germany demands that cities enforce air quality rules by banning certain heavily polluting vehicles.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., notes that the drugmaker has made over $20 billion in profits over the past two years, and the U.S. government contributed billions toward the shots' development.
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The popular Irish pub opened in 2002.
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The study also found that acidity is increasing in the Gulf of Maine faster than at other locations on the East Coast.
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Meanwhile, the National Transportation Safety Board is examining six recent close calls between planes.
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The recalled drops from EzriCare and Delsam Phama were made by Global Pharma Healthcare in India.
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The owners say they intend to return to Portland 'when the time is right.'