I am a small business owner and cancer survivor, and, on May 2, I traveled to Augusta with my wife Jenny to testify for LD 1491, the Maine Work Credit, an expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). Expanding the EITC to middle-income earners will directly benefit tens of thousands of small business owners […]
2019
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Jim Fowler, former host of ‘Wild Kingdom,’ dies at 89
NORWALK, Conn. (AP) — Jim Fowler, a naturalist who rose to fame on the long-running television program “Wild Kingdom” and who famously bantered with Johnny Carson on “The Tonight Show,” has died. He was 89. Fowler died peacefully Wednesday at his home in Norwalk, Connecticut, surrounded by family, said Jennifer Whitney, a spokeswoman for Mutual […]
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Letter to the Editor: Democrats too liberal on voting rights
How desperate can the Democrats be to think we would allow criminals to vote and children, age 16, to vote, when parents have to sign for them to take driver’s education classes, etc.? Criminals should never be allowed to vote unless they earn that right, which I don’t think will happen. We certainly have a […]
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Maine Voices: Forget 2020 campaign promises – Washington can’t solve anything
The National Unity Agenda reflects an effort to turn public interest-driven policy recommendations into a blueprint for nonpartisan change.
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Travel ban forces Americans to wait years for loved ones
NEW YORK (AP) — Eight-year-old Mutaz cries when he sees his classmates with their mothers at teacher conferences. His 9-year-old brother, Adel, gets into trouble at school. In hourslong weekend calls with their mother, the children always have the same question: When are you coming to America? It’s a question with no answer. Their mother, […]
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‘Teaching Mass’ to be celebrated Monday in Springvale
SPRINGVALE — A “teaching Mass” to offer explanations about what is happening during the different sections of a Catholic Mass will be held at 6:30 p.m. Monday, May 13 at Notre Dame Church, 10 Payne St. in Springvale. The teaching Mass will be an actual Mass, celebrated by The Rev. Jack Dickinson, judicial vicar for […]
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US wildlife officials propose downlisting endangered beetle
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Federal wildlife officials said Wednesday a large scavenging beetle that has been classified as endangered since 1989 has become more plentiful and should be downlisted to threatened, a decision that environmentalists said is not justified by scientific data. The American burying beetle was once found in 35 states and three Canadian […]
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David McCullough explores the pioneers in new book
“The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West,” by David McCullough (Simon and Schuster). When the Revolutionary War was over, and the Treaty of Paris had Great Britain recognize that a new country had been formed, Britain also gave the new government of the United States vast land northwest […]
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DNA, family tree help solve 52-year-old Seattle murder case
SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle police said Tuesday they have solved a murder from nearly 52 years ago with the help of DNA and a family tree — a method that has revolutionized cold-case investigations across the U.S. in the past year. Susan Galvin was a 20-year-old records clerk for the department in July 1967 when […]
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