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A new documentary explores immigrant youth and their place in Maine and America

The weight of the world
"Back in the Congo, we heard rumors that America is paradise — where everything is perfect, money flows like water, you can eat as much as you want, whenever you want, you can get anything," says Emmanuel Muya, one of 15 immigrant high school students featured in a new documentary, The Whole World Waiting , which will premiere at SPACE Gallery on Thursday.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | May 23, 2012

The potential of TEDxDirigo

Spreading Ideas
There were several impressive, stick-in-your-mind talks at the TEDxDirigo: Engage conference, held last Saturday at the University of Southern Maine.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | May 23, 2012

Lawmakers mostly stand up against environmental assault

‘Holding the line’
Republican state Senator Thomas Saviello, at one point widely considered a foe of Maine's environment, may have just saved it. At the least, he was a leader in saving a good part of it.

By: LANCE TAPLEY | May 23, 2012

Lemonade: it’s not just a lark anymore

Starting Young
If you remember when a lemonade stand involved a folding table, pitcher, lemons, and a parent who was tired of hearing "I'm bored!" you'll find those lazy summer days are over.

By: | May 23, 2012

A browner shade of pale

Diverse City
Here in the least racially diverse US state, there isn't much danger of whites becoming a minority anytime soon, given that 94.3 percent of the population is non-Hispanic white.

By: SHAY STEWART-BOULEY | May 23, 2012

Got no plans

Politics + Other Mistakes
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By: AL DIAMON | May 23, 2012

Positive change, at last

Balls, Pucks & Monster Trucks
Even when the Sanford School Committee gets it right, its members manage to be wrong.

By: RICK WORMWOOD | May 16, 2012

Reviving the electric car

Transport Revolution
Electric cars — ones that are completely rechargeable and use no gasoline — are now available in Maine, in addition to plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and traditional hybrids, both of which boast higher fuel-efficiency than conventional cars.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | May 16, 2012

Grad students get the knife

Student Loan Cuts
On July 1 graduate and professional students will no longer be eligible for federally subsidized Stafford loans.

By: MELISSA NELSON | May 16, 2012

Never mind the bollocks

Politics + Other Mistakes
In the wake of its chaotic state convention, the Maine Republican Party has cleverly positioned itself to appeal to a whole new segment of the public: Anarchists.

By: AL DIAMON | May 16, 2012

Portland’s lady arm-wrestlers slug it out

Battle of the biceps
There was a moment during Saturday's raucous debut smackdown of the Superhero Lady Armwrestlers of Portland when it looked like the favorite, Voom Voom Valhalla, would certainly lose.

By: SARA ANNE DONNELLY | May 09, 2012

‘30,000 drones’ over America and other stories

Conventionland
"You are now being watched by 30,000 drones," Second District congressional primary candidate Blaine Richardson dramatically told the 3000 people assembled at the Republican State Convention in Augusta on May 5.

By: LANCE TAPLEY | May 09, 2012

Play: Beware what lies beneath

Disaster Preparation
The US Bureau of Land Management estimates that 90 percent of existing natural-gas wells in this country use hydraulic fracturing techniques — commonly known as "fracking" — that inject pressurized water and toxic chemicals into the ground.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | May 09, 2012