Over the past month, the Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee has received some positive financial news that will greatly help us as we finalize our recommendations to the budget. As many of you know, Maine revenues for December and January were better than expected and recently, the Revenue Forecasting Committee reported that General Fund revenues […]
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A Bible any way you like it
In the same century that Spain found an outlet for its murderous religious practices in the New World, Joe Gutenberg invented the printing press, and Martin Luther used it to print copies of his 95 criticisms of the way the pope conducted Christian affairs. Little did these gentlemen dream that they might be giving birth […]
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A Voice from Cape – Teaching really is rocket science
I borrowed the above headline from my stepdaughter’s comment on two recent articles on teaching – “What Makes a Great Teacher” in the Jan/Feb issue of The Atlantic magazine and “Building a Better Teacher” in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine. Both articles are essential reading during school budget deliberations, because they can help school boards […]
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EDITORIAL – A new opportunity for our newspapers
In the realities of today’s newspaper business, investigative reporting on larger, statewide issues – stories that can take weeks or even months to report – have mostly disappeared. Newspapers cannot afford to dedicate a reporter to one story for that amount of time. It is a fact of the industry well known to John Christie, […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Current, Lakes Region Weekly
EDITORIAL – A new opportunity for our newspapers
In the realities of today’s newspaper business, investigative reporting on larger, statewide issues – stories that can take weeks or even months to report – have mostly disappeared. Newspapers cannot afford to dedicate a reporter to one story for that amount of time. It is a fact of the industry well known to John Christie, […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Current, Lakes Region Weekly, Web
EDITORIAL – A new opportunity for our newspapers
In the realities of today’s newspaper business, investigative reporting on larger, statewide issues – stories that can take weeks or even months to report – have mostly disappeared. Newspapers cannot afford to dedicate a reporter to one story for that amount of time. It is a fact of the industry well known to John Christie, […]
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Risky business – Les Otten and the rise and fall of American Skiing Co.
(Editor’s note: The following examination of gubernatorial candidate Leslie B. Otten’s role in American Skiing Co. by the nonprofit Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting is the first in a series examining the claims and records of some of the leading candidates for governor.) If you Google “American Skiing Co.” and “Otten,” you get 4,700 […]
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As friends mourn, police stay mum on home invasion investigation
Darien Richardson was smart, athletic and had a smile that could light up a room. Those are some of the ways that the 25-year-old South Portland resident is being remembered since she died Feb. 28 from complications due to an earlier gunshot wound. Her death has been ruled a homicide. Those who knew Richardson are […]
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As friends mourn, police stay mum on home invasion investigation
Darien Richardson was smart, athletic and had a smile that could light up a room. Those are some of the ways that the 25-year-old South Portland resident is being remembered since she died Feb. 28 from complications due to an earlier gunshot wound. Her death has been ruled a homicide. Those who knew Richardson are […]
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City high school plan back on front burner; budget OK’d
SOUTH PORTLAND – South Portland Board of Education members said Monday that they plan to push for putting a $41.9 million plan to renovate and expand South Portland High School on the ballot in November. The board also passed a $37.9 million budget on Monday that would cut 25 jobs but doesn’t contain such controversial […]