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Member Blog | July 9, 2008 12:57 am | 0 recommendations

Don't trash your lightbulbs...

I learned an important fact a couple of days ago. I can't throw my funky energy-efficient lightbulbs I recently bought at Target to help keep my...

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Member Blog | July 3, 2008 8:17 pm | 1 recommendation

Laid Off

In the span of 15 minutes on Tuesday I was laid off from my job managing MaineBusiness.com and given a new job as a night content producer for...

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Member Blog | June 26, 2008 3:59 pm | 0 recommendations

Retirement by the Numbers

I don’t care if you’re 25 or 55 – putting money away for your retirement years is a necessity. I have compiled some figures from a Fidelity...

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Member Blog | June 25, 2008 12:43 pm | 1 recommendation

Big Tobacco, Little Pouches

Have you heard about the new tobacco pouches? I hadn’t either until I opened ...

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Member Blog | June 20, 2008 8:13 pm | 0 recommendations

Unemployment: 10 Year High

The Boston Globe ...

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Member Blog | June 17, 2008 7:36 am | 0 recommendations

Advertising Inside Jokes

Sovereign Bank has a new television ad out that...

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Member Blog | June 10, 2008 8:07 am | 0 recommendations

Internet Advertising on the Rise

The current economic crisis hasn’t affected U.S. Internet advertising spending, according to Massachusetts-based global market intelligence...

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Member Blog | June 3, 2008 9:31 am | 0 recommendations

Boston Lobster Company Survives

When I first heard about James Hook & Co. lobster business going up in flames I thought to myself “the owners probably torched it on...

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Bio and Interests: Melanie Brooks

I am a journalist and content producer living in Portland, Maine.