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Watch Out, Cape Wind: Deepwater Wind Proposes Largest Offshore Wind Farm in U.S.

Deepwater Wind proposed this week the biggest off-shore wind farm ever in the U.S.--a deepwater wind farm near Rhode Island that will include 200 wind turbines and power up to 800,000 homes at a cost of $5 billion dollars. READ»

The Innovations of Microsoft’s New Research Building

Over the past two years Microsoft has been building a new building to house all of its Redmond, WA-based researchers. The researchers themselves helped design the building and Kevin Schofield, General Manager of ...READ»

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Coming Soon: America's High-Speed Rail Network

Efficient high-speed rail networks are already staple of many European and Asian countries. President Obama outlined an ambitious plan today to bring the United States up to speed--literally. It won't be cheap.READ»

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 electric bill down can't simply be thrown away in 12 years when they burn out. There's ...READ»

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 the Portland Press Herald. I went from working from 6am to 2pm, Monday through Friday and ...READ»

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 study released yesterday that I got from an article in the Boston Globe. A ...READ»

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Big Tobacco, Little Pouches

Have you heard about the new tobacco pouches? I hadn’t either until I opened the latest issue of Advertising Age. The new pouches – called snus -- look like tiny tea-bag pouches and don’t require a spittoon. They just sit ...READ»

Unemployment: 10 Year High

The Boston Globe reports that the unemployment rate in Maine is the highest it has been in 10 years to 5.4 percent for May. Labor Commissioner Laura Fortman said last month's increase was "unusually large," adding that ...READ»

Advertising Inside Jokes

Sovereign Bank has a new television ad out that stars Jerry Remy – the Red Sox analyst on NESN. I didn’t get this ad at first, even though I know who Jerry Remy is. I read further on down the Boston.com story and found out ...READ»

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Internet Advertising on the Rise

The current economic crisis hasn’t affected U.S. Internet advertising spending, according to Massachusetts-based global market intelligence firm IDC. Total revenue for the first quarter increased by 23.9 percent. And although ...READ»

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 purpose.” It’s expensive to be in the lobster business in New England these days. Not only ...READ»