Gretchen Frank has spent 30 years working on Portland's waterfront, for Casco Bay Lines. So she's met a lot of different kinds of people. Still, she didn't know what to make of photographer Tom Bloom, ...

Amaranth adds that in past periods of austerity, government employment has declined by 4,000 to 10,000 per month. In a report last week, Wells Fargo economists said their best guess is that federal ...