Recognition Waynflete School math, business and personal finance teacher Steve Kautz was announced as the first-ever recipient of the Maine Jump$tart Coalition Financial Educator of the Year Award. He was also the coach of Maine’s First New England Federal Reserve Cup Team in 2011. Kautz will be formally presented with his award at the annual […]
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Portland Regional Chamber selects Hall as CEO
PORTLAND — The Portland Regional Chamber announced Tuesday that Christopher Hall has been hired as chief executive officer, after serving in the role on an interim basis for two months. Hall replaces Godfrey Wood, who stepped down as CEO last December after serving in the position since 1997. The selection comes out of a nationwide […]
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Letter: Legislature drops the ball on special interests
Thank you for printing Orlando Delogu’s columns exposing the issue of corporate welfare in our state. I do not want to subsidize big-box stores like Wal-Mart with my tax dollars, especially when they do not pay a living wage or provide health benefits to employees (ultimately receiving another subsidy when their employees go on government […]
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The View From Away: Oh, Canada?
A few months ago, an old friend from Los Angeles, a director who emigrated to Canada for professional reasons, invited me to help him out on a television pilot he was producing for Canadian television. After a delightful week in Toronto, for which I was paid nearly enough to cover the cost of transportation to […]
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Letter: Access to health care should be guaranteed
Access to health care should be guaranteed to all citizens. Bruce LeClaire argued in a letter that government-run health care is inefficient. But as a senior currently on Medicare, I can assure him it is not only efficient, but effective. I might agree, as an unabashed liberal, that efficiencies are needed in government-run services, but […]
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Short Relief: Send in the drones
It’s early March and I should be wary, but I don’t think it is too early to pronounce unmanned drones the greatest achievement of the 21st century. They are relatively cheap, quiet and effective. They can solve a host of our problems: terrorism, climate change, illegal immigration, our budget gap, crime, Congress – you name […]
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The Universal Notebook: The enemy within
Remember back in 2009, when the Department of Homeland Security report “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment” warned that right-wing extremists posed a greater threat to America than Islamic militants? And remember how swiftly the Republican Party condemned and suppressed that report? Well, four years later we have […]
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Unsung Heroes: The Knit Wits, knitting for love
HARPSWELL — Enter the basement of the Islands Community Church on Bailey Island any Wednesday afternoon between 1:30 and 3:30 p.m., and you will see a dozen or so women knitting – and telling stories and laughing and eating cookies prepared by one of the women’s husbands. You will feel the energy these women have […]
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Editorial: A history of open access to concealed handgun permits
In February, as debate swirled in the House regarding emergency legislation to temporarily conceal the personal identifying information printed on concealed handgun permits, there were a lot of questions about why the 112th Legislature defined these permits as public records way back when. A lot of questions, but no answers. So, in our effort to […]
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Two-alarm Portland fire damages building, business
PORTLAND — Overheated computer equipment led to a two-alarm fire that caused more than $600,000 of damage to a commercial building near Morrill’s Corner Tuesday night, City Hall spokeswoman Nicole Clegg said Wednesday. No one was injured. Firefighters responded shortly before midnight to an activated smoke alarm at 812 Stevens Ave., a two-story building that […]