The long haul: struggles of a lobster town
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Last year, Maine's lobstermen reported a 14 percent decline in catches. This year, the outlook could be worse.
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By JIM SUTTON  The St. Johns River has marched through time to its own internal beat.  Traveling almost imperceptibly north, its seasons are marked less by climatic changes than those of its inhabitants.
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Author John Steinbeck often  chronicled the struggle of the common man in times of economic  hardship. Now, a modern-day tale of financial struggle is  playing out in Steinbeck's hometown of Salinas, California.
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Two decades ago, when this seaport city was mired in a deep and seemingly endless recession, Mike Byrne, a local musician and businessman, sought public funds to help build an exhibition dedicated to ...
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Itâs all about location. As one Generation Y worker said, âIt doesnât make sense to have a great job in a crummy city.â
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So Iâve finally finished the tough slog through The World Is Flat, Thomas Friedmanâs much-cited opus on globalization. One could take issue with the 577-page bookâs uneconomical approach to language, but itâs hard to dismiss its basic economic premise: The playing field is leveling out, as India, China, and other emerging markets plug in to a global economy. Outsourcing is a fact of life.
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Thousands of people in Louisiana and along the Mississippi Gulf Coast are struggling to rebuild their lives. In some areas, the population and economy are growing, but in others, serious issues remain such as battered infrastructure and violent crime.
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Travel: Patrick Steel travels south past Tasmania to Bruny Island, a laidback haven where tourism works by local word of mouth and the fish are plentiful
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Yale University normally concerns itself with issues such as global warming and genetic research. But lately it is in a protracted battle over a restaurant that just wants to continue serving chorizo encrusted cod and lobster cassoulette.
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HISTORY: The city was a boomtown when shellfish ruled. In the days when crab was king, its claws pulled deeply at the soul of this old seafood town, which for decades was a bustling hub of Virginia's ...
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One chilly April morning two years ago, manager Jill Vanden Heuvel was at her desk at Algonkian Regional Park expecting a quiet Sunday when the cars started to arrive. Hundreds at first, then more than a thousand, bringing scores of Iranian families toting blankets, coolers and small grills.
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KITTERY, Maine - A Vermont man took home the top prize in a lobster-eating contest by devouring 19 of the crustaceans in 35 minutes.  Barry "Tink" Giddings of Chester, Vt., won the Weathervane Seafood Restaurant's third annual lobster-eating competition.
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Tourism officials have worked for years to make this beach town a gay-friendly destination. Now their biggest obstacle could be the mayor himself.
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Shipped halfway across the world to Asia as a seafood delicacy, abalone has become a prized commodity for South African entrepreneurs as well as criminals who have poached the mollusc almost to extinction.
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Transforming the rough craft of lobstering into a gentle art, a New Hampshire outfit has persuaded Whole Foods Market to waive its ban on live lobster sales at a new store opening next week in Portland, Maine.
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Imagine being 22, and having to carry a franchise. Now imagine being 22, and having to carry the hopes and dreams of an entire city. A city that's known nothing in sports but heartbreak for two generations. A city so starved for something good its most memorable events were somebody else's triumphs.
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By John Weiss, Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn.  Jun.