Greater Portland Books/Authors Wednesday 9/16 Monica Wood, novelist speaking on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, part of “Art in Our Front Yard” Series presented by Portland Public Art Committee, 3 p.m., free, Longfellow Square, Portland. Thursday 9/17 “The Spirit of Capt. Reuben Blanchard,” discussion with author Chet Blanchard, sponsored by Cumberland Historical Society, 7 p.m., free, Cumberland […]
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Raymond W. Allen, 87: Longtime teacher gave much to students, community
PORTLAND — Raymond W. Allen, 87, died Sept. 4. He was born Sept. 9, 1927, and attended schools in Camden and Portland. Allen then graduated from Boston University, earned a master’s degree at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and completed a doctorate at Tufts University. He served in the U.S. Army as a covert investigator for […]
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Patrick M. Mullin, 55
YARMOUTH — Patrick Michael Mullin, 55, of Portland, died Sept. 9 in Yarmouth. He was born in Portland on June 13, 1960, a son of Jack and Barbara (Kane) Mullin, of Cumberland Foreside. Patrick graduated from Portsmouth Abbey School in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, and the University of New Hampshire. He devoted his professional career to […]
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People and Business
Hires, Promotions, Appointments Portland law firm Verrill Dana recently named Susan E. Bryant as counsel in its Business & Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions and Securities Law groups. Previously, Bryant practiced at her own boutique law firm, and also headed the Oklahoma Department of Securities. She earned her law degree from the University of Oklahoma School […]
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Portland landlord registration fee discounts headed to City Council
PORTLAND — City landlords will begin paying an annual registration fee of as much as $35 per housing unit on Jan. 1, 2016. But discounts to the fee, part of an ordinance requiring landlords to register with the new Housing Safety Office, are expected to have a first reading at the Sept. 21 City Council meeting, and a public […]
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Portland Meetings: Sept. 16-22
Wed. 9/16 10:30 a.m. Continuum of Care 190 Lancaster St. Wed. 9/16 4 p.m. Public Art Committee LFK Wed. 9/16 5 p.m. Historic Preservation Board CH Wed. 9/16 5:30 p.m. Transportation, Sustainability & Energy Committee CH Thur. 9/17 8:30 a.m. ESAC 190 Lancaster St. Thur. 9/17 1 p.m. Substance Abuse Subcommittee CH Thur. 9/17 3 […]
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Letter: Columnist smears Pingree with 'guilt by association'
I’ve taught inductive and deductive reasoning, but four readings do not discover one valid argument in Julie McDonald-Smith’s column “In Pingree’s case, it takes a fat cat to know one.” McDonald-Smith finds “the hilarity” of the “American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act of 2010” almost unbearable after Rep. Pingree’s praise of an earlier version, […]
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The Right View: Who pulls the strings for Maine education policy?
While everyone is busy freaking out about last week’s Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability report, Gov. Paul LePage and House Speaker Mark Eves, I’d like to point out that all of this noise speaks to a much larger scandal surrounding education in Maine. The 2011 law that ushered in the era of charter schools, […]
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Intentionally Unreasonable: The recipe for Maine's political apocalypse? Blueberry nut bread
I’m convinced that hardly anyone really cares about big “P” Politics (government functionality, constitutional integrity, etc.) in Maine – mostly just the little “p” version rooted in partisan pettiness. As individuals, we are all generally hardwired to care and act upon issues that touch us directly or connect with our own personal areas of empathetic […]
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The Universal Notebook: Huckabee's hillbilly heroine
A sorry county clerk from tiny Rowan County, Kentucky (pop. 23,333), is being held up by the religious right as a Christian martyr for going to jail rather than issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. In fact, Kim Davis is the kind of backwards bigot who gives Christianity a bad name. Grandstanding Republican presidential hopefuls […]