Archive for October, 2008
Monday, October 27th, 2008
According to the Maine Department of Labor, 2,400 Mainers have lost their jobs in the last year, putting Vactionland's unemployment rate at 5.6% (these numbers are seasonally adjusted). The number is not horrible, and Cumberland county's rate is only 4%. As things slow down, though, maybe you are ...
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
Last week I was in Manhattan for a few days. After catching this episode of Throwdown with Bobby Flay, I decided to head over to a place called The Doughnut Plant NYC. In the episode, two NYC cops declared Mark Israel, owner of the Doughnut Plant, the winner. ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
Last night I was watching Donny Deutsch's The Big Idea. On there was a guy named Roger Fowkes, inventor of a system called MiraLynx. The show was interesting to me because it gave the other side of entrepreneurship. By "other side" I mean the sacrifices. Sometimes ...
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
When I was in high school, I worked in my parents' janitorial services company. It was a straightforward industry where virtually anyone with a mop and bucket could start a business- and did they ever! As the job market grew tighter, more and more “fill-in-the-blank’s cleaning services” kept ...
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