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Turning development theory upside down

What if the premise guiding most municipal economic development schemes were wrong? So wrong, in fact, that this basic assumption is to blame for much of the gap between tax revenue and infrastructure repair? That's the idea Chuck Marohn of Strong Towns, a Minnesota-based consulting firm, asserted during a session… SEE MORE
Darius Kasprzak demonstrates a jig rig.

Working Waterfront

‘Jig’ gear: a better way to catch ground fish

When Darius Kasprzak, skipper of the Marona and president of the Alaska Jig Association showed up in Rockland, he knew that his biggest problem in convincing Mainers the merits of jig-fishing was the lack of… well, fish.  “There ain’t ground fish in Penobscot Bay, and good luck finding them anywhere else,”… SEE MORE