Conventional wisdom has it that the greatest benefit of our new e-reality is its social interaction, that more and more shared data optimizes life, personal and worldwide. However, to know everyone, everyone must know us. The question is: how well? Privacy still remains a much valued commodity despite e-media’s redefinition of past expectations. Unintended third […]
2014
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Our Arctic interests
I was recently sent an email alerting me to a conference at the University of Maine that appears to be about dragging us into another one of the oil-i-garchy’s latest chaos zones. Here is a bit from the invite: “The University of Maine School of Policy and International Affairs and the Maine Army National Guard […]
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Staggering delivery costs?
Post Office costs, it’s time for us to change our expectations and ask, do we require daily mail delivery? Face it, information transfer requirements have changed; presently, many legal documents and most payments of bills are transmitted electronically; funds transfer by paper check is all but an anachronism. We, citizens, need to step back and […]
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Rules won’t apply to all trains carrying crude oil
AUGUSTA Just as the state has revealed that crude oil shipments by rail have resumed along the state’s rail lines, Maine state emergency officials say new federal rules about shipping hazardous materials such as crude by rail don’t go far enough. For example, the new rule does not apply to trains carrying less than a […]
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Officials to release school report cards
AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine officials are handing out new grades to the state’s schools. The new A-F grades for Maine schools are set to be released to the public on Thursday. Schools received their individual grades earlier this week. Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s administration began handing out letter grades to schools last year. It says […]
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Man pleads guilty to pharmacy robbery
PORTLAND (AP) — A Portland man who claimed he had a bomb in a backpack during a pharmacy robbery last month has pleaded guilty. Jason Campbell pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Portland on Wednesday to robbing a Congress Street CVS store on April 11. Prosecutors say the 39- year-old Campbell approached the counter, […]
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Honors for officers who died on duty
AUGUSTA (AP) — A ceremony in Augusta will honor 83 Maine law enforcement officers who have died in the line of duty. Police officers from all over the state are expected to attend the event Thursday on State Street in Augusta adjacent the Maine State House. The annual observance at the Maine Law Enforcement Officer’s […]
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Car rash leads to meth charges
BANGOR (AP) — A car crash on Interstate 95 has led to the arrest of a Danforth man on in methamphetamine trafficking charges. State police investigating the single car crash near the Penobscot-Aroostook County line near Sherman on Tuesday night called the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency to the scene after discovering the driver was in […]
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Maine to N.S. ferry to make first run
PORTLAND (AP) — The Nova Star ferry from Portland to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, is set to make its first voyage. The overnight cruise ferry departs Portland at 9 p.m. today and arrives in Yarmouth at 8 a.m. Friday. It’s scheduled to run seven days a week until Nov. 2. on the same schedule. The return […]