By SARA BURNETT Associated Press CHICAGO — As Democrats across the country make an election-year push to raise the minimum wage, they often point to fast food workers, baristas and others who are struggling to raise families, pay rent or get through school ”“ some on as little as $7.25 per hour. First, though, they are […]

SCARBOROUGH (AP) — Hillary Clinton is slated to make a stop at Scarborough High School to campaign with Democratic gubernatorial nominee Rep. Mike Michaud. The former Secretary of State and first lady of the United States will appear at the school on Friday with Michaud, who’s in a race with Republican Gov. Paul LePage and […]

OTTAWA, Ontario — Authorities and ordinary Canadians sifted through confounding shards of a gunman’s life seeking to understand what motivated the man to storm the nation’s seat of power. The emerging portrait of Michael Zehaf-Bibeau is a fragmented one: A misfit who went more than five years without seeing his mother. A crack cocaine user […]

I spend a fair amount of time out of the office. So I am frequently being asked by folks in our community how things are going at the Journal Tribune, and what I think is going to happen to the industry as a whole. I was asked nearly identical questions regarding the industry for years […]