The Maine Public Utilities Commission voted Thursday to allow Statoil North America to move ahead with plans for an offshore wind energy project in federal waters off Boothbay Harbor. Spare us the hand wringing over subsidized energy — or else name us an energy source that isn’t subsidized. Now tell us how many of those […]
2013
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Amend Constitution to curb campaign cash
To the Editor: On Tuesday, I joined over 100 Mainers at the State House. We and many others around the state urge the 126th Legislature to declare its support for an amendment to the United State Constitution that would undo Citizens United — that is, it would empower state governments to regulate the raising and […]
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Interact Club empowering Bath youths
For the past two years Communities Against Substance Abuse has sponsored members of Morse High School’s Interact Club to attend the Maine Youth Action Network Maine Youth Leadership Summit, a two-day event that takes place each fall in Augusta. In 2011, I attended with four students and this past year, through the continued support of […]
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Susan A. Toth
BOWDOINHAM — Susan A. Toth, 56, of Preble Rd., died at her home on January 21, 2013 after years of illness with MS. She was born in Brunswick in 1956, the youngest child of Russell and Norma McPherson. She was an avid snowmobiler and loved to Jetski and to go camping. In recent years, her […]
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Biden heads to Va. to push gun control
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden is taking the White House’s campaign for gun control on the road to Virginia. Biden plans a roundtable discussion today in Richmond with experts who worked on gun safety following the 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech. President Barack Obama wants Congress to require background checks for all gun […]
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Boeing 787 battery shows short-circuiting
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Boeing 787 Dreamliner battery that caught fire earlier this month in Boston shows evidence of short-circuiting and a chemical reaction known as “thermal runaway,” in which an increase in temperature causes progressively hotter temperatures, federal accident investigators said Thursday. It’s not clear to investigators which came first, the short-circuiting or the […]
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Mali, French military forces push eastward
MOPTI, Mali (AP) — Mali’s military and French forces have pushed toward the Islamic extremist stronghold in the city of Gao, in their farthest push east since launching an operation two weeks ago to retake land controlled by the rebels, residents and a security official said today. The soldiers were seen in the town of […]
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Britain introduces same-sex legislation
LONDON (AP) — The British government has introduced a bill legalizing samesex marriage, and says lawmakers will get their first vote on it in Parliament next month. The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill, published today, extends marriage to gay couples but excludes clergy in the Church of England — the country’s official faith — from […]
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Iraqi troops shoot dead 5 protesters
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi troops shot dead five protesters today as they opened fire at stone-hurling demonstrators angry at the troops for preventing them from joining an antigovernment rally west of Baghdad, officials said. According to police officials, the soldiers started shooting after a group of protesters on their way to a Sunni rally in […]
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Cambodia reports 3 new bird flu cases
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia today reported three new human cases of bird flu, two of them fatal, in the first three weeks of this year. That’s as many cases as the Southeast Asian country reported in all of 2012. The cases are among the first reported in 2013 for the virulent H5N1 virus, […]