PORTLAND — After earning a high rank in a Forbes magazine employment survey last week, city officials and business leaders are saying the future is bright for job-seekers in greater Portland. Forbes called the Portland-South Portland-Biddeford region the sixth best place for jobs in the country this spring, based on a survey of more than […]
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Phone scams preying on concern for loved ones
The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office says the scam has cost a Harpswell resident $7,000 and a Gray woman $2,000.
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SAT, ACT tests to require photo IDs to curb cheating
The change is one of a number of security initiatives following allegations of widespread cheating at a number of high schools on New York’s Long Island
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Gay marriage coalition names campaign manager
The Maine Freedom to Marry Coalition also creates a PAC and launches a website. An opposition group is also forming a political action committee, called Protect Marriage Maine.
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Debates set for U.S. Senate primary candidates
The race is on, with nine GOP forums scheduled and the first Democratic debate this weekend in Portland.
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Car fire disrupts I-295 traffic in Falmouth
The fire near Exit 14 burned a car that was being towed by a tow truck.
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Breaking barriers: Portland parent-teacher conferences in a multilingual era
PORTLAND — Shamso Farah, a Somali translator and parent liaison for the Portland Public Schools’ multilingual department, rushed into her boss’s office at Lyman Moore Middle School on March 21 with a minor crisis on her hands. It was parent-teacher conference day at the school, and for five weeks before, Farah and other members of […]
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Alicia Keys lists glassy-cool, Empire-State-of-mind penthouse for $17.950M
Forget about moving on up. Singer and New York native Alicia Keys did that a long time ago, trading her childhood residence at the artist-friendly Manhattan Plaza apartment complex in Hell’s Kitchen for a slick SoHo real estate market triplex. Now Keys and her producer husband Swizz Beatz have listed their Crosby Street penthouse for […]
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POLITICS AND OTHER MISTAKES – Glorification of failure
The last time the Maine Democratic Party had a competitive candidate in a statewide political race was in 2006, when John Baldacci was re-elected governor. And that was hardly a landslide. Even with Baldacci’s incumbency, he got barely 38 percent of the vote. Since then, not only has no Democrat won a contest for the […]
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POLITICS AND OTHER MISTAKES – Glorification of failure
The last time the Maine Democratic Party had a competitive candidate in a statewide political race was in 2006, when John Baldacci was re-elected governor. And that was hardly a landslide. Even with Baldacci’s incumbency, he got barely 38 percent of the vote. Since then, not only has no Democrat won a contest for the […]