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Where have all the workers gone? And when will they return?

Short answer: Most of them won't. The past two years have upended the job market and created a vast labor shortage. It won't improve anytime soon.

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Where have all the workers gone? And when will they return?

Where have all the workers gone? And when will they return?
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No Laughing Matter: Making a case for community-scale forestry

No Laughing Matter: Making a case for community-scale forestry
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Plymouth Holiday Parade kicks off the season

Plymouth Holiday Parade kicks off the season
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MOFGA gets growing with new market in Freeport

What started as a pop-up store last winter is now a permanent, year-round marketplace operated by Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association.

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Doing good business in the food economy


Doing good business in the food economy | Jim Hightower
Jim Hightower
This opinion column was submitted by syndicated columist, populist author, public speaker and radio commentator Jim Hightower.
A cadre of business school economists, high-tech speculators and corporate planners have been hyping and investing billions in a food-economy model that renders many millions — family farmers, local restauranteurs, independent food processors, small grocers and food workers — passe. No need for such costly and cumbersome "units," argue these schemers for a revolution enabled by artificial intelligence, robotics, genetic engineering and cell-cultured foodstuffs. A few conglomerates will consolidate and automate every step from planting to plate, producing and distributing the calories necessary to sustain the masses and "free" all the "small" people tied up in food production to do something more useful.

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George Smith: Wild crops abound to harvest, put up as we fall toward winter


George Smith: Wild crops abound to harvest, put up as we fall toward winter
By George Smith
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Longtime columnist George Smith, whose work filled this space every Wednesday for three decades, died Feb. 12. For the next several weeks, we will reprint some of George’s best columns. Here’s one from Oct. 19, 2011.
Warblers arrive in the spring garbed in colorful clothing, but they head back south in the fall dressed in drab colors. There’s got to be a message there, but those of us who don’t follow the birds south are too busy getting ready for winter to recognize it.

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The Presidents' plates: We look back at presidential visits to Maine, with an eye on the food


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The Presidents’ plates: We look back at presidential visits to Maine, with an eye on the food
From lobster to coconut ice cream, it's Fare to the Chief.
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower eats a steak dinner at the Skowhegan home of Republican Sen. Margaret Chase Smith in June 1955. Smith is sitting next to Eisenhower, and Gov. Edmund Muskie is seated across from the president.
Photo courtesy of Margaret Chase Smith Library
On June 27, 1955, President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave a speech at the Skowhegan Fairgrounds. Afterward, he joined Sen. Margaret Chase Smith at her home in Skowhegan for a picnic on her lawn.

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