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Saving a sinking waterfront
Redeveloping the Maine State Pier has gone wrong from the beginning — let’s get our priorities back in order
The near-identical proposals to fix up and revitalize the Maine State Pier are in as uninspiring shape as the pier itself.
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DEIRDRE FULTON, CHRISTOPHER GRAY, AND JEFF INGLIS
| August 29, 2007
Maine prison bosses violate court orders
Department of Corrections ignores federal rulings going back to the 1970s
In the activist climate of an earlier era, a Maine legal-aid group brought and won three prisoner-rights lawsuits against state corrections officials.
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LANCE TAPLEY
| June 27, 2007
Lockdown
What do prison officials have to hide?
If you were a reporter and you received a letter like the one excerpted below, what would you make of it? Lance Tapley discusses reporting the prisons
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LANCE TAPLEY
| December 14, 2006
Arbitrary imprisonment
In a mysterious Guantánamo-like move, the state refuses to follow a judge’s order committing a mentally ill prisoner to Riverview
Joseph Steinberger thought he had won one of the most important trials of his legal career.
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LANCE TAPLEY
| July 19, 2006
Tough talk
Upset by the tripling of an Old Port bar fee, owners plan a revolution
The day after the Portland city council tripled an Old Port bar fee that helps pay for overtime area police, a group of angry bar owners decided to hire a lawyer to sue the city.
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SARA DONNELLY
| May 25, 2006
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