PORTLAND The federal government has awarded Maine’s Department of Labor $3.66 million for statewide programs to help long-term unemployed people find work and training, particularly in the areas of health care, information technology and advanced manufacturing. Maine was one of 27 states to receive a grant, which U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez said aims […]
2015
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Clueless & Planless
We’ve known for a long time that Barrack Obama is clueless when it comes to dealing with what’s left of Iraq. Now we also know he’s still planless. Our president was in Europe earlier this week at a “Group of Seven” conference, where he met with leaders of the world’s seven most industrialized economies. During […]
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Bipartisan Democratic Defiance
U.S. House Democrats recently defied their sitting president by refusing to give him so-called “fast tracking” of his international trade deal, the Trans-Pacific Partnership. This was accomplished by voting against a worker protection provision, normally a Democratic assured yes vote. As the provision was tied to passage of fast tracking, voting against one stalled the […]
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Save the Earth, Human Dignity
As we witness increases in natural disasters (storms, flooding, fires, droughts, glacial melting, desertification), we know that our home planet, Earth, is undergoing severe environmental stresses. Fueled by human greed, ecologically destructive economic practices, e.g., deforestation, slash-and-burn agriculture, corporate agricultural chemical use, coal strip mining, gold prospecting, illegal poaching, and burning of fossil fuels are […]
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
Words are but the signs of ideas. — Samuel Johnson
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CALENDAR
THU/18 MISCELLANEOUS STORY TIME, 11a.m., Cundy’s Harbor Library. Weekly story time with activities and a snack. 725-1461. TECH HELP THURSDAY, 1-3p.m., Cundy’s Harbor Library. Drop-in tech help for eReaders, eBooks, tablets and computers. 725-1461. MEN’S BOOK GROUP, 6:30-7:30p.m., Topsham Public Library. This month’s book is “The Day the World Came to Town” by Jim Defede. […]
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Dear Abby
DEAR ABBY: I have been having an affair with a married man for eight years. At first, both of us were married, but my husband died two years ago. Since then, my lover and I have grown closer, but he won’t leave his wife because of his kids. I love him dearly, but cannot go […]
