The event raises about $80,000 for Rippleffect, a Portland nonprofit youth and community development program that operates outdoor adventures.
May 2014
Posted inJournal Tribune
About 60 people gather in Portland to protest Keystone XL pipeline
Portland Mayor Michael Brennan and others speak out against tar sands oil.
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Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
About 60 people gather in Portland to protest Keystone XL pipeline
Portland Mayor Michael Brennan and others speak out against tar sands oil.
Posted inNation & World, News
Oregon voters asked to ban growing of genetically modified crops
Organic farmers want to protect their crops from being cross-pollinated by GMOs.
Posted inNation & World, News
Summit targets African terror group
Boko Haram is offering to exchange the 276 girls who remain captive for jailed insurgents and threatening otherwise to sell them into slavery.
Posted inMaine, News, Politics
Democrats accuse LePage of lying in radio address
The governor claimed Democrats opposed his effort to prevent welfare benefit cards from being drawn from ATMs at places like bars, liquor stores and strip clubs.
Posted inNation & World, News
Turkish search ends as last missing miners found
The death toll from the May 13 explosion and fire that devastated a coal mine in Soma is 301.
Posted inBusiness, News
Government fine hardly the end of GM recall saga
GM faces issues both in the near-term and longer term related to the recall.
Posted inNation & World, News
States move to expand experimental drugs for dying patients
But skeptics call “Right To Try” a feel-good campaign.