Business
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Clean-tech jobs aren’t yet abundant in every part of the US. And some employers say they’re looking for workers with years, rather than weeks or months, of specialized training.
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The approval comes less than a year Bristol Myers Squibb paid $14 billion to acquire the developer of the drug, Karuna Therapeutics.
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Many websites require password habits that actually don’t keep you safer. Neither special characters nor frequent password resets really help security.
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Advocates say carbon credits are ready for prime time. Lawyers say they need a legal definition to become an asset as tradable as stocks and bonds.
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The pizzeria, known for grilling its pizza, has been in business in Portland for five years.
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Owners said the modern gastropub faced steep financial challenges from its inception.
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Entertainment Luxury Cinemas has opened in the former Cinemagic at Clark's Pond in South Portland, with big plans to expand and build a multifaceted theater complex.
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Five years ago this Halloween, Home Depot introduced the 12-foot-tall skeleton.
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A new request for proposals on the Belfast property will be released by the end of next week and will remain open until November.
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Military deployments are depleting the workforce, while the death toll devastates families and communities.
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Parents and guardians who profit from social media posts featuring their children will soon be required to set aside some earnings for the young performers.
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In a speech in Pittsburgh about the economy on Wednesday, Harris said it was important for the United States to maintain its dominance in blockchain technology, which facilitates trade of cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin.
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While OpenAI already has a for-profit division, where most of its staff works, it is controlled by a nonprofit board of directors whose mission is to help humanity.
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Amanda Beal has been elected to serve on the board of the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture.
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Inflation has been easing broadly for more than a year now, and it's been cooling faster for grocery items since the middle of the year.
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A development company behind several other hotels in the city plans to turn a historic bank building into a 92-room hotel with a restaurant.
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Owner Michaela McVetty has decided to focus on her other location, in Bath.
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The former owners of the decades-old ice cream stand said that they could not come to an agreement with the new property owner about how to keep the business in operation as it was.
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More than half will do their shopping on their phones.
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Over the past 3 decades, the traditional supermarket industry shrank as a handful of big-name grocers acquired their smaller local and regional rivals.
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The blockbuster online multiplayer game is caught in the middle of a dispute between Hollywood’s actors union and an audio company that provides voiceover services.
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Interest in buying gold often comes at times of uncertainty – with potential concerns around inflation and the strength of the U.S. dollar, for example.
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Jeff McCabe, a former Democratic majority leader in the Maine House, succeeds Carolann Ouellette, who has returned to a previous role as Maine's director of tourism.
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Also, the second annual Maine Needham Festival is on Saturday; the East Bayside food and drink scene gets some love from Boston Magazine, and more local food news.
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Weight loss drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic sell in Europe for a fraction of what they cost in the United States – a pattern that is typical for brand-name prescriptions.
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The solar industry built expansive farms in Texas by leasing farmland and allowing sheep to graze on the same land. Clean energy now powers the grid.
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The complaint says Visa penalizes merchants and banks who don't use its payment processing technology to process debit transactions, even though alternatives exist.
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A report published Tuesday includes targets that each county should hit to meet a statewide goal of adding 84,000 homes by 2030. But it falls short of issuing any mandates.
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A strike would shut down 36 ports that handle roughly half the nations' cargo from ships.
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The company said the offer includes pay raises over 4 years, up from 25% in the first proposal. The union originally demanded 40% over 3 years.
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Towns want and need more housing but say they lack the developers and the money to make it happen.
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Kyle Rancourt’s connection to the Dempsey Challenge has only grown over nearly a decade that he has been participating in the challenge.
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It's the second lawsuit filed this year in Maine against insurance carriers that limit coverage of popular drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Zepbound.
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Those who owned the ice cream stand at 23 Island Ave. said the property’s new owner has other plans for the location.
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Some 45,000 dockworkers at every major eastern and Gulf coast port are threatening to strike Oct. 1.
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American companies haven’t adopted 4-day weeks as broadly as, say, Australia or Europe, but that could change.
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With holiday shopping season around the corner, experts recommend caution when your favorite store offers you a credit card.
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Shipping needs to cut emissions rapidly, and there are no solutions widely available today to fully decarbonize deep-sea shipping. But there's a lot of interest in ammonia as an alternative fuel.
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Consumer surveys show that most Americans remain unhappy with the economy, still bruised by an inflation rate that hit a 4-decade high 2 years ago as the economy rebounded from the pandemic recession.
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The new funding could fill some gaps, but bandwidth for actually using the money at the local level may remain a challenge.
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In this case, the Fed’s action was widely anticipated, so rates moved lower well before the cut was even announced.
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Authorities blamed the blast on a leak of methane gas.
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The brewery and taproom, which opened in August on the north shore of Cobbosseecontee Lake, take their inspiration from the local history of drinking and dancing.
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Despite pervasive 'supply skepticism,' the evidence suggests the answer is yes: As the number of homes grows in an area, prices tend to fall and lower-cost units get freed up. But advocates say it takes time – and there are many hurdles.
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NENPA judges said 'we applaud the newspapers’ persistent efforts to learn and report what happened, what failings may have occurred, and what, if anything, can be done to prevent another tragedy.'
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The game maker bought some land in 2017 as part of a stunt aimed at blocking a southern border wall.
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Potential supply shortages are plaguing the world's largest coffee producer as well as the second-biggest – Vietnam.
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The owner of the shuttered nuclear power plant says it plans to restart the reactor under a 20-year agreement that calls for tech giant Microsoft to buy the power to supply its data centers.
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FedEx drags markets down as stocks drift around their all-time highs and close on a quieter note.
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The effort is part of the Biden administration's continuing push to reduce China’s global dominance in the sector.
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The layoffs are part of a broader restructuring of the systemwide IT department, Chief Information Officer Robert Placido told workers Friday afternoon in an email obtained by the Press Herald.
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The aircraft manufacturer has started rolling furloughs of nonunion employees to conserve cash.