Cuts to health care and education and punitive tax proposals are causing a grass-roots backlash.
2013
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Legislature, feds should hike minimum pay
Slow wage growth has kept the economy from emerging from the financial collapse.
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Posted inOpinion
Jonah Goldberg: Iraq war offers learning opportunities for the Republican Party
The unpopular conflict hurt Republicans, but President Obama’s failures could handicap his party.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Letters to the Editor: Turnover of school principals no mystery
Your front-page story (“Is knotty job undoing principals in Maine?” March 4) about several Maine high school principals leaving their jobs under a variety of circumstances tried to find an answer to a question that may not need be asked: Why the “high rate” of departures? Dig deep in most of these situations and you […]
Posted inNation & World
Syrian rebels seize key southern town
They take full control of Dael, where the uprising against President Assad began in March 2011.
Posted inOpinion
Maine Voices: Increase in marketing budget critical to lobster industry’s survival
A modest rise in license fees will pay off in the long run for lobstermen, buyers, truckers and processors.
Posted inNation & World
U.S. immigration bill is ‘very close’
A proposal on low-skilled workers had been a hurdle, but ‘we are optimistic,’ said Sen. Chuck Schumer.
Posted inNews
New England Dispatches
Students seek to overturn dodgeball ban / Fine of $1 million upheld in fatal nightclub fire / Powerball winner to buy house, plow truck … and more news from around the region.
Posted inNews
Heart pump allows girl, 13, to resume normal activities
Kyah DeSimone is the first patient at Boston Children’s Hospital ever to be implanted with the device.
Posted inLife & Culture
People & Entertainment: Folk singer stages a protest
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. – Her show had been canceled, but that didn’t stop alternative folk and rock singer Michelle Shocked from showing up at a Santa Cruz nightclub where she staged a sit-in with tape across her mouth that read “Silenced By Fear.” Moe’s Alley was one of several nightclubs that canceled Shocked’s gigs after […]