Forget your high school civics class, the one where they taught you how laws are made. It wasn’t true. Here’s the truth. Congress sometimes manages to pass broad laws, leaving it up to the experts — regulators or administrators — to fill in the details that apply to people. While rulemaking, they’re under heavy pressure […]
September 2018
Posted inJournal Tribune
Home Country: Gotta scratch an itch
You have to look for the schism, Jasper said to himself out at the woodpile. He put another chunk of firewood up on the splitting block and took a look at the checking cracks that ran part way through the circles of age rings. If I hit it right there, he said to himself, it […]
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Clemson to play this weekend with storm battering coastline
CLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson is moving forward with plans to host its scheduled football game on Saturday while Hurricane Florence wreaks havoc on the Carolinas’ coastline with officials bracing for historic flooding and record-setting rainfall that has forced people to evacuate their homes to escape the wrath of the storm. School officials reiterated their plans […]
Posted inJournal Tribune, Obituaries
Carol A. Boucher
ALFRED — It is with great sadness that the family of Carol Ann (Landry) Boucher announces her sudden passing on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018 at the age of 74. Carol will be lovingly remembered by Norman Boucher, her husband of 56 years, and her four daughters, Lynne Boston and husband Rick, Brenda LaFrance and husband Jim, Shirley Dickson and […]
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Hurricane stokes talk of extending college football season
With an eye toward player safety and scheduling flexibility, the NCAA last year considered ways to lengthen the college football season so every team would have 14 weeks to play 12 games every year. It didn’t come to pass. The topic popped up again this week as Hurricane Florence prompted the cancellation, postponement or relocation […]
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Manafort pleads guilty, will cooperate with special counsel
WASHINGTON — Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort agreed Friday to cooperate with the special counsel’s Russia investigation as he pleaded guilty to federal charges and avoided a second trial that could have exposed him to even greater punishment. The deal gives special counsel Robert Mueller a key cooperator who led the Trump election effort […]
Posted inMaine, News
As Portland seeks compensation for shelter costs, Maine welfare directors tell towns not to pay
General Assistance administrators claim the city is misinterpreting ordinances in an effort to collect money for people who go to Portland’s emergency shelters from other communities.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Judge Kavanaugh no friend of Roe, marriage-equality rights
Sen. Collins holds a key and perhaps pivotal vote on his confirmation. She should vote to reject him.
Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: If Sen. Collins believes in rule of law, she should vote against Kavanaugh
Sen. Susan Collins is well aware that Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court is being rammed through at breakneck speed and without appropriate review – we’re seeing only 10 percent of his White House work product, hand-picked by an old friend. She knows that there are credible claims that the nominee has committed […]
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Letter to the editor: McCain funeral a bad place to insult sitting president
John McCain was a great man, and I am one of his great admirers. However, I do not think that his funeral was the time and place for two of our former presidents to make snide remarks regarding our present president. That was very rude and crude. Norma Stanley South Portland
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