Eleven future homeowners will benefit from Freeport’s growing partnership with Habitat for Humanity.
2012
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State House Notebook: Lawmaker fights back against LePage veto
AUGUSTA – Gov. Paul LePage vetoed three bills last week — adding to the dozen he rejected last year. But at least one isn’t going away without a fight. Sen. Phil Bartlett, D-Gorham, is challenging LePage’s reasons for vetoing a bill that would require public agencies to consider energy efficiency in designing new buildings. On […]
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People & EntertainmentHawking: Colonize other worlds
CAMBRIDGE, England – Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking was too ill to attend a conference in honor of his 70th birthday Sunday, but in a recorded message played to attendees, he repeated his call for humans to colonize other worlds. University of Cambridge Vice Chancellor Leszek Borysiewicz told the conference that Hawking, who is almost completely […]
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Another View: Will column oversimplifies alternative energy debate
Even if you don’t consider climate change, economic factors argue for new power sources.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Letters to the editor:Member who resigned over NRA praised
Kudos to the man who left the Spurwink Rod & Gun Club rather than be forced to join the National Rifle Association. He objects to some of the NRA’s extreme beliefs. The NRA hasn’t always been the fanatical organization it is today. Originally, the goal was to improve marksmanship. Over the years, the organization supported […]
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Maine Voices: MaineCare system was allowed to expand to a Cadillac budget
The governor has more logic going for him with his proposed cuts than he is being given credit for.
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Our View: Congress shouldn’t hurry back for more dysfunction
Last year was such a disaster, the country can live without a quick return to Washington.
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Dana Milbank: Largest! First! Best! Campaigning, Gingrich doesn’t hold back
LITTLETON, N.H. – “I think I am a transformational figure,” Newt Gingrich told The Washington Post’s Dan Balz back in 1994 — before his Republicans won control of the House. Modesty has never been the speaker’s strong suit. He came in a distant fourth place in Iowa, and polls show he’ll do no better in […]
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George Will: In a redistributive government, wealth travels upward
Liberals have a rendezvous with regret. Their largest achievement is today’s redistributionist government. But such government is inherently regressive: It tends to distribute power and money to the strong, including itself. Government becomes big by having big ambitions for supplanting markets as society’s primary allocator of wealth and opportunity. Therefore it becomes a magnet for […]
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Dispatches
SOUTH PORTLAND Professor honored Florence Chambers, a professor at Southern Maine Community College, will be honored with the 2011 Teaching Excellence Award. The American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges presents the award biennially to math instructors, who “display excellence in the classroom, superior professional development, and outstanding leadership qualities,” the press release said. Chambers has […]