PORTLAND (AP) — Maine’s hotels and restaurants set a record for revenue last year, bringing in about $3.8 billion. The Portland Press Herald reports that tax records show lodging revenue broke $1 billion for the first time in 2017 after rising 7 percent from the year before. Restaurant revenue rose 4 percent to about $2.8 […]
March 2018
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Man who says boss called him ‘Big Indian’ wins $40k in suit
AUGUSTA (AP) — A man who says his jewelry company employers called him a “Big Indian” has won $40,000 in a lawsuit he filed in Maine. Jason Brown says his employers’ comments about “Indians and firewater” made him feel reduced to his Native American heritage as a joke and a stereotype. Brown is a Penobscot […]
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LETTERS
Walkouts Accomplish Nothing I think it is very sad and dangerous for teachers and school administrators to let the students have their planned walkout. There has been so much on the news about all the crazy people out there, that all this walkout is doing is sending them an invitation saying here we are all […]
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Looking Beyond BIW’s Beleaguered Tax Break
When I was a child my mom would ask: “Just because all your friends do it does that make it right?” Apparently for some Maine legislators it does, at least regarding tax breaks and nondisclosure. Because other large corporate entities in our state, or as distant as Pascagoula, Mississippi, get benefit from tax incentives without […]
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Proficiency-based Education is Failing Maine Students
Maine’s experimental education model, proficiency-based learning, has received strong pushback in recent weeks from various communities around the state as the Legislature’s Education and Cultural Affairs Committee considers another year-long delay of the 2012 law. Students and parents in Scarborough and Lewiston have protested the implementation of proficiency based policies that they claim are hurting […]
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Edward Schreiber
TOPSHAM — Reverend Edward Schreiber, 72 of Topsham, passed away Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at his home. Born in Gloucester, MA on November 15, 1945, the son of Rudolph Max and Bertha (Hyytinen) Schreiber. Reverend Schreiber celebrated over 40 years as a Lutheran pastor in Hempstead Long Island, Cambria Heights, Queens and Saugerties, NY. Originally […]
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John R. Shorey
BATH — John Raymond Shorey, 68, of Bath, passed away unexpectedly at his home in North Port, Florida, on Monday, February 26, 2018. Friends are invited to a Celebration of Life on March 10, 2018, at the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath, ME, from 12:30-2:30 p.m. Messages can be left on the Desmond Funeral Home […]
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DEATH NOTICE
FREEPORT — Beatrice F. Arria, age 75, of Old County Road, died on Tuesday, March 6, 2018, at the Hawthorne House. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, March 17 at 11 a.m. at Stetson’s Funeral Home, 12 Federal St., Brunswick.
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For many factory towns, white collar job loss hurts the most
ERIE, Pa. With the abandoned smokestacks off the bay and ramshackle factories along 12th Street, it’s easy to pin the blame for this industrial city’s plight on the loss of manufacturing jobs to China and Mexico. Many, including President Donald Trump, hold the belief that shuttered factories are what primarily ails Erie and other aging […]