PORTLAND — The Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce and Maine Health Access Foundation are hosting a morning breakfast forum Thursday, Oct. 9, 7-9:15 a.m., focused on Maine small businesses and the Affordable Care Act, entitled, “What are the options to cover my employees in 2015?” This forum is specifically designed for small businesses with 50 […]
October 2014
Posted inJournal Tribune
Protesters at hearing to cut sex-assault sentence
OSSIPEE, N.H. — The victim in a child sex-assault case keeps reliving what happened after a judge said he is inclined to reduce her attacker’s prison sentence, her mother said Tuesday. “This has had a big backlash on my daughter,” the woman said Tuesday, after the pair sat through a hearing in Carroll County Superior […]
advertisement
Posted inJournal Tribune
YCCC awarded NASA grant
WELLS — The Maine Space Grant Consortium announced York County Community College and Southern Maine Community College have been awarded funds to pilot and evaluate a model that aims to increase the number of community college students that complete their degrees on time and pursue aerospace science and technology careers or transfer to four-year institutions […]
Posted inJournal Tribune
UNE soccer teams both off to impressive starts
BIDDEFORD — A little more than a month ago, University of New England men’s soccer coach Peter Oestergaard and UNE women’s soccer coach Heather Davis were both quietly confident heading into their respective seasons, believing their teams had what it takes to compete with anyone on their schedules, including the upper-echelon teams of the Commonwealth […]
Posted inJournal Tribune
MacDonald represents middle ground in Legislature
Partisan rancor permeates debate in the Maine Legislature. Too many feel the need to toe the party line and vote with leadership. Collaboration and compromise seem to be foreign concepts. I co-chair a small contingent of Democrats and Republicans who seek to work from the middle. We call ourselves the Common Ground Caucus, moderates who […]
Posted inJournal Tribune
Fall Colors
Flowers in fiery hues bask in the sun in Rochester, New Hampshire in this recent photo.
Posted inJournal Tribune
Wealthy giving less to charity; Utah tops states
NEW YORK — Even as the income gap widens, the wealthiest Americans are giving a smaller share of their income to charity, while poor and middle-income people are donating a larger share, according to an extensive analysis of IRS data conducted by the Chronicle of Philanthropy. The Chronicle, a leading source of news coverage of […]
Posted inJournal Tribune
Police: Teen boy broke into Smithfield camps
SMITHFIELD (AP) — A 13-year-old boy is facing charges after allegedly breaking into a half-dozen unoccupied camps in Smithfield and grabbing loose change and other small items. The Somerset County Sheriff’s Department says the daytime burglaries occurred between Sept. 20 and Sept. 26, and the camps were either closed for the season or vacant. Police […]
Posted inJournal Tribune
Colby rallies past UNE
BIDDEFORD — Misha Strage scored an unassisted goal 5:27 into the second half to give Colby College a 3-2, come-from-behind victory over the University of New England in non-conference field hockey action Tuesday evening at the Big Blue Turf. The Mules (6-4) trailed 2-0 after the opening 12 minutes of play, but a pair of […]
Posted inJournal Tribune
Republicans’ deep cuts are not the answer to prosperity
Load 16 tons and what do you get? Another cut in your welfare check. Gov. Paul LePage has solved Maine’s welfare problem, and all he had to do was put on a time limit. Now, like any Republican, he forgot to mention how this plan works. He brags how he stop overpayments, but how did […]