I really feel bad for all of the volunteers who have worked for the past year to get all phases of the festival organized. |
In many ways it has not hit the work force yet. |
It's a great example of how the economy adapts to find ways to use resources that are not being used anymore. |
The bulk of the growth in coastal areas came about as a result of a wealthier society that has a very high taste for the ocean. |
The conditions were just too bad for the other array of planes to fly in as we had planned. |
The discussion about the shipyard's really critical role in that area will highlight a lot of other issues of the southern Maine economy and make people much more aware of what they need to do to build a future. |
The jobless recovery in Maine is much more of a reality than we thought it was. |
There has been job growth. But it's not where we would like to see it. |
We will still have activities going on … and we still want people to come out. |
We're really in uncharted territory here. |
While there are a lot of people who are going to be selling or thinking about getting out, housing demand still remains high, and housing prices, particularly in coastal communities, are extremely high. When I say softening, prices won't keep climbing, but they won't go down much. |