There are homeless people in the park in part because the hotel eliminated low-income housing.
September 2013
Posted inNation & World
Colorado looks to Vermont for road repair advice
The state faces a short time frame before winter, just as Vermont did after Tropical Storm Irene.
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Wall Street slides on budget fears
Stocks turn lower after the House of Representatives votes to defund President Obama’s health care law.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Letters to the editor: USM could help make Maine younger
In 2011, I wrote (and the Portland Press Herald published) a letter about news of declining enrollment in the University of Maine System and notably, the University of Southern Maine (“USM’s offerings unfairly overlooked,” Dec. 22, 2011). I offered a solution that would help grow the perception of USM as an integral campus of the university […]
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UNEMPLOYMENT RATES FOR AUGUST COMPARED Briefcase
– 7.0% Statewide unemployment rate in August 2013 7.3% Statewide unemployment rate in August 2012 The rate for August this year was slightly higher than the rate of 6.9 percent in July. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsAbout 50,000 Mainers were jobless in August, data show Maine’s unemployment rate for August was 7.0 percent, up […]
Posted inOpinion
Maine Voices: Proposed federal policy shift presents threat to rural Maine hospitals
A plan to reassess the certification of critical-access hospitals could close four Maine facilities.
Posted inReligion and Values
High court asked to take up contraceptive coverage issue
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration set the stage Thursday for another Supreme Court showdown on the president’s health care law, this time to decide whether for-profit companies can be forced to provide full contraceptive coverage for their employees despite religious objections from their owners. The administration’s lawyers asked the justices to take up the issue […]
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Author seeks Maine killer’s prison drawings
John Joubert was found guilty of the murder of a young boy whose body was found in Portland.
Posted inNation & World
Obama, Iran’s new president may meet
The two have exchanged letters and will be in New York next week for the U.N. General Assembly.
Posted inNation & World
Knox won’t return to Italy for new appeals trial
NEW YORK – American student Amanda Knox on Friday defended her decision not to return to Italy for a new appeals trial over the 2007 killing of her British roommate, even as she acknowledged that “everything is at stake,” insisting she is innocent. “I was already imprisoned as innocent person in Italy, and I can’t […]