WASHINGTON – House Republicans resurrected the specter of Medicare rationing Thursday in an election-year vote to repeal cost controls in President Obama’s health care overhaul. In the GOP crosshairs is a board that has yet to be named but would be empowered to force cuts to drug companies, insurers and other service providers if Medicare […]
March 2012
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Maine wind power firm says it followed guidelines
Angus King’s former company says it broke no rules, despite what a federal report may say.
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Feature Obituary: ‘Bud’ Hertz, 68, antiques dealer and more, ‘loved by many’
OLD ORCHARD BEACH – Seems like everyone in town knew Bud Hertz. He was a well-respected antiques dealer and owned K & B Antiques on Route 1 in Saco for 29 years. He also worked for the Old Orchard Beach Fire Department. In his spare time, he refereed boys’ basketball games across southern Maine for […]
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February home sales surge, median price falls in Maine PORTLAND – Maine Realtors say homes sales were up by nearly 30 percent in February compared with a year ago. Figures from the Maine Real Estate Information System, a statewide multiple listing database, show 624 single-family homes were sold last month. Meanwhile, the median sales price […]
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Scores arrested in anti-nuclear protest
Another group protests at the New Orleans offices of the parent company of the Vermont Yankee plant.
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Gardening experts urge caution with early spring
Maine gardeners shouldn’t get too excited about the unseasonably warm weather in recent days. Anything planted too early could die.
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U.S. government says 3.1 million Americans now work in green jobs
But the Labor Department report is sure to add to the debate over exactly how to define what green jobs are.
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Bagel guru Murray Lender dies at age 81 in Florida
The Lenders were the first to freeze their bagels for shipping without fear of them becoming stale.
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Co-owner behind Mr. Coffee dies at 89
CLEVELAND – The co-owner of a business that developed the Mr. Coffee coffeemaker popularized by pitchman Joe DiMaggio has died in Cleveland. A funeral home said Thursday that Samuel L. Glazer died March 12 at the Cleveland Clinic of complications of leukemia. He was 89. Services were held March 14 the Berkowitz-Kumin-Bookatz Memorial Chapel in […]
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Senate passes bill to help startup companies
Senate Democrats manage to pass one amendment to increase protections for investors.