Lydia Leimbach is hardly the first person to take a stab at the vexing question of how Maine should best pay for its public schools. Nor, alas, will her answer lower anyone’s property tax bill. But Leimbach, who works as the technology integrator at Hall-Dale high and middle schools in Farmingdale, couldn’t just sit there […]
September 2013
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Two bicyclists killed in N.H. riding event
Two women, aged 60 and 52, are struck in Hampton, N.H., by a motorist, 20, who crossed the center line.
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Ex-Navy man falsely accused says ‘Verify before you vilify’
WASHINGTON – Rollie Chance was home in Stafford, Va., about 40 miles south of Washington, when he began watching the news about the shootings at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday morning. A retired Navy lieutenant, he had worked in Building 197 on the fourth floor and was worried that some of his friends and […]
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Winner recalls impact of ‘Battle of the Sexes’
The tennis match 40 years ago came as equal pay and opportunity were starting to be taken seriously.
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Washington Notebook: Conservatives pressure Collins over health care issue
The senator, who is up for re-election next year, voted against Obamacare in 2009 and has voted several times to repeal the law.
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Uninsured care about new health plans, not penalty
People in need of health insurance worry more about the costs of the options starting Oct. 1 than the government mandate to sign up.
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Book: U.S. had close call with H-bomb
LONDON – A U.S. hydrogen bomb nearly detonated on the nation’s East Coast in 1961, with a single switch averting a blast which would have been 260 times more powerful than the device that flattened Hiroshima, a newly published book says. In a recently declassified document, reported in a new book by Eric Schlosser, the […]
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Singer’s lawyer mocks NFL ‘values’
LOS ANGELES – M.I.A. is lashing out at the NFL’s reaction to her 2012 Super Bowl halftime performance. The British-Sri Lankan singer has been embroiled with pro football officials over her Super Bowl XLVI show. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the league is upset because during a number with Madonna, M.I.A. raised her middle finger […]
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Pope’s message a challenge for bishops
NEW YORK – In recent years, many American bishops have drawn a harder line with parishioners on what could be considered truly Roman Catholic, adopting a more aggressive style of correction and telling abortion rights supporters to stay away from the sacrament of Communion. Liberal-minded Catholics derided the approach as tone-deaf. Church leaders said they […]
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Bowdoin’s endowment reaches $1 billion mark
The figure has risen from $688 million in 2009, while Colby is at $650 million and Bates $233 million.