Mission Working Dogs of Oxford claims its handlers and dogs were detained and then kicked out of the mall unlawfully during a visit in May 2022.
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Posted inMaine
Portland’s first director of equity and diversity wants to start community dialogue
Umaru Balde is tasked with promoting equity and inclusion and will serve as an adviser to the city manager and council.
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Posted inNews
In Selma, Biden says right to vote remains under assault
The president is urging Congress to pass voting rights changes despite divisions on Capitol Hill.
Posted inMaine, News
Lawmakers may limit use of facial recognition software by police in Maine
A bill sponsored by Rep. Grayson Lookner, D-Portland, would limit police use of facial recognition technology to investigations of only the most serious crimes.
Posted inNation & World, Politics
Biden moving to improve legal services for poor, minorities
President Joe Biden plans to take executive action to ensure minorities, low-income Americans and others have better access to quality legal representation after services dwindled during the Trump administration.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Leonard Pitts: America spends a lot of time trying to kill democracy
Senate Democrats must unite to block the filibuster and pass 2 bills that will expand access to voting.
Posted inNation & World
From medieval times to our current crisis, plagues often accelerate extremist movements
Since ancient times, pandemics have spurred sharp turns in political beliefs, spawning extremist movements, waves of mistrust and wholesale rejection of authorities. Americans are falling prey to the same phenomenon.
Posted inNation & World, Sports
Baseball great and civil rights voice Henry ‘Hank’ Aaron, 86, passes into history
Baseball’s all-time home run king died Friday at the age of 86.
Posted inNation & World, News
Bruce Carver Boynton, who inspired 1961 Freedom Rides, dies at 83
The civil rights leader’s arrest at a Virginia bus station helped light a fire that tore down Jim Crow laws in the U.S.
Posted inNation & World
‘Fifth girl’ injured in 1963 Klan church bombing asks Alabama governor for restitution
The explosion killed Sarah Collins Rudolph’s 14-year-old sister, Addie Mae Collins, and their friends, Denise McNair, 11, Carole Robertson, 14, and Cynthia Wesley, 14.