Just as a rising conservative tide helped Republicans in 2010, a waning one could pose problems in the future.
May 2014
Posted inMaine, News
Serial OUI driver gets seven-year sentence
Kelly Jean Boyer, 52, had completed an intensive substance abuse treatment program just 20 days before her January arrest.
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Posted inMaine, News
Salisbury, Bates in House race for District 35
Both candidates for the seat now held by Ann Peoples say education is the top priority.
Posted inMaine, News
Debate over June 10 parks referendum, Congress Square Plaza heats up
Protect Portland Parks urges passage of a public spaces ballot question; opponents say it is really all about Congress Square Plaza.
Posted inNation & World, News
In New Orleans, charter schools rule
Wholesale change was badly needed, so the city swept out the entire traditional system of public schools.
Posted inMaine, News, Politics
Selectman, Rotary leader seek House District 7 nod
Robert ‘Bob’ Foley and Peter Leon are running for the Republican nomination.
Posted inNation & World
Pakistani stoning death has new twist: Husband killed his first wife
Police say Mohammed Iqbal was arrested for that 2009 killing, but the case was dropped.
Posted inSports, Varsity Maine
High school notebook: Future looks bright for renewed NYA baseball program
North Yarmouth Academy has struggled but improved with a young team after doing without the sport for two years.
Posted inNation & World, News
World/Nation Dispatches
CAIRO Voter turnout push taints election of new president Nearly a year after he ousted Egypt’s first freely elected president, former military chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi was elected president by a landslide of 92 percent of the vote, according to unofficial results released by his campaign Thursday. But questions over the authorities’ drive to boost turnout […]