Comments from Jim McConnon, business and economics specialist and professor of economics with University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the UMaine School of Economics, were included in a Bangor Daily News article about the increasing strength of the Portland-area economy. The Bangor-area economy also is important as a service center for northern and eastern Maine, according to the article, which notes that McConnon has developed a method based on taxable retail sales figures to measure a community’s success in attracting money from outside its confines.
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