A bipartisan majority proposal for ‘takings’ offers more reasonable protections.
2012
Posted inOpinion
Maine Voices: Last-minute workers’ comp bill would hurt the badly injured
The legislation benefits insurance companies, to the detriment of public safety workers and others.
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Dispatches
Inmate crew accidentally sets fire that destroys truck / Saco plant to help build gun systems for Navy jets / Nighttime repairs on bridge will stop turnpike traffic . . . and more Maine news.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Another View: Collins’ bill on emissions gives industry the certainty it needs
Delaying implementation of the Boiler MACT rules would pave the way to new investment.
Posted inNews
Killing of three described as northern Maine man’s trial starts
The prosecutor tells jurors the defendant planned to kill one man but also took the lives of a 10-year-old boy and a neighbor.
Posted inNation & World
Tulsa suspects confess to shootings, police say
The explanation for last week’s deadly rampage may lie in the 2010 killing of one suspect’s father.
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King vows to run positive Senate campaign
The independent former governor speaks in Brunswick for the opening of his campaign headquarters.
Posted inNation & World
Syrians see a surge in violence
BEIRUT — Syrian forces opened fire across two tense borders Monday, killing a TV journalist in Lebanon and wounding at least six people in a refugee camp in Turkey on the eve of a deadline for a cease-fire plan that seems all but certain to fail. Across Syria, activists reported particularly heavy violence with more […]
Posted inNation & World
Indiana man held in ‘sextortion’ case
Predators are blackmailing their victims into creating sexually explicit photos or videos for them online.
Posted inNation & World
North American bat deaths linked to foreign fungus
It remains unclear why European bats have not died off en masse from white nose syndrome.