Wow. I just started this letter two days before the Maine Sunday Telegram on June 7 featured the news that the USPS was making a bid to keep permanent the emergency 49-cent rate increase in place since January 2014 (“Court stamps out USPS bid to keep rate increase”). A first-class mailing to me from a […]
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Posted inMaine, News
Did former Biddeford police officer turn into a monster?
Allegations of sexual abuse – old and new – swirl around Stephen Dodd. He’s not talking, but people who have known him offer some answers.
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Posted inMaine, News, Politics
Welfare reform among unfinished business
Maine lawmakers have dozens of bills to wade through before wrapping up this session.
Posted inMaine, News, Politics
His own party agonizes as Gov. Paul LePage burns political capital
Feeling Maine’s governor ‘turned his back on them,’ some Republicans show their displeasure by joining Democrats in overturning vetoes.
Posted inPolitics
How Maine’s members of Congress voted, week ending June 20
WASHINGTON — Here’s a look at how area members of Congress voted over the previous week. Besides roll call votes, the House also took action on legislation by voice vote. The House passed the VBID for Better Care Act (H.R. 2570), to authorize a demonstration program for using value-based insurance design in Medicare. It also […]
Posted inNation & World
Spaceship set to fly by, collect data about Pluto
But the journey of NASA’s New Horizons, the fastest spaceship ever launched from Earth, is not risk-free.
Posted inBusiness, Food, Maine, News
Local food ordinances gaining traction in Maine towns
They say it’s OK for farmers to bypass state and federal regulations when selling agricultural products directly to consumers.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Commercial loan activity exploding at local banks
The rise in Maine’s nonresidential real estate lending since the recession dramatically outpaced the nation’s. What’s behind this economic trend?
Posted inPolitics
Needs of female breadwinners present challenge for Republicans
More working mothers have been voting Democrat since 2004.
Posted inLife & Culture, Maine, News
New book recounts victory of Angel of Bataan
World War II nurse Alice Zwicker was the only servicewoman from Maine held as a prisoner of war.