AUGUSTA (AP) — Lawmakers are considering Maine Gov. Paul LePage’s latest and last push to boost the salary for the next governor. The Legislature’s state and local government committee is set to consider the proposal Wednesday. LePage, a Republican, has long said the $70,000 annual salary is too low, and he’s proposing boosting it to […]
March 2018
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Major development in Maine’s largest city appears dead
PORTLAND (AP) — A development project touted as a chance to overhaul a neighborhood in Maine’s largest city appears dead after losing approvals. The “Midtown” project included a pledge to turn former scrap yards into hundreds of housing units in the Bayside section of Portland. The Portland Press Herald reports the project’s developer, Federated Companies, […]
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Driver who used racist, sexist slurs wins school board seat
MINOT (AP) — A former Maine school bus driver who was fired for making racist and sexist comments has been elected to the school board. The Sun-Journal reports Mike Downing was elected earlier this month to represent Minot on the RSU 16 school board. Downing was fired from his job as a bus driver in […]
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LETTERS
Thank You, Hannaford I’m sure Hannaford had customers who were tempted to complain at the lack of parking on Saturday morning, March 24. But they should know that there were many more who appreciated the ability to park and walk across to the Town Mall to gather in support of gun control, the protection of […]
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
It isn’t what people think that’s important, but the reason they think what they think. — Eugene Ionesco, Romanian-French playwright (born 1909, died this date in 1994)
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Iron Filings
One could spend a significant amount of time in Bath and Brunswick and not even realize that every ship that sets sail from Bath Iron Works is originally launched up the road in Brunswick. Far away from the industrial elegance of the large cranes in Bath is a facility that makes those familiar shapes on […]
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Let’s Get Serious
Thirty years ago, James Hansen, NASA climate scientist, testified before the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that the earth was warming, and “it is time to stop waffling so much and say that the evidence is pretty strong that the greenhouse effect is here.” The conclusion at that time was that if we […]
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Spotlight on family of Sacramento victim
SACRAMENTO, Calif. A blinding national spotlight is shining on the family of Stephon Clark, the 22-year-old unarmed black man killed by Sacramento police last week. “You don’t know what it’s like until you experience it,” Clark’s uncle, Curtis Gordon, told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday. “You can see it on TV, it’s totally […]
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Trump: Good chance NKorean leader will do ‘what is right’
WASHINGTON President Donald Trump said today there’s “a good chance” that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will “do what is right for his people and for humanity” and make moves toward peace. In a pair of morning tweets, Trump says he received a message from Chinese President Xi Jinping that a meeting Xi had […]