by Rose Lundy | November 8, 2020
On a sunny September morning in Dover-Foxcroft, more than 50 cars stretched from the Piscataquis Regional Food Center three blocks down North Street an hour before a food distribution event was to begin. Parked along the shoulder, with their engines off and windows...
by Rose Lundy | August 9, 2020
A committee of Maine economic experts and industry representatives this month outlined a $1.1 billion plan to steady the state economy in July. The plan from the Governor’s Economic Recovery Committee includes 11 focus areas based on insights from hundreds of Mainers,...
by Samantha Hogan and Meg Robbins | May 13, 2020
The recession arrived not as a slow and predictable financial decline, but as a cliff. Economists agree that Maine is experiencing an “unprecedented” economic downturn due to the coronavirus pandemic that has forced businesses to close and massive, rapid layoffs of...