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Watch your backs, useless people
Poll numbers
Poll numbers
By:
JEFF INGLIS
| May 16, 2013
Union battles continue
Organized labor
An update on the state employees' union's dispute with the governor, plus union organizers' plans for medical-marijuana workers.
By:
DEIRDRE FULTON
| May 16, 2013
Laptop program change sets schools back 10 years
Learning works
The webinar started with a five-minute effort to ensure the screen-and-audio sharing technology was actually working, punctuated by uncertainty about which representatives of which companies would be making remarks. Not an auspicious start.
By:
JEFF INGLIS
| May 09, 2013
Legislature wades through hundreds of proposals
From silly to serious
Want to know what your elected officials are mulling over? Here is a subjective selection of bills that piqued our interest.
By:
DEIRDRE FULTON
| May 09, 2013
When silence speaks volumes
Words off the Page
On her deathbed, Terry Tempest Williams's mother left her daughter three shelves of cloth-bound journals. When Williams opened them, hoping to find solace as well as perhaps some insight into her mother's soul, all she found was blank pages.
By:
DEIRDRE FULTON
| May 03, 2013
Dancing? You'll need a license
Papers, Please
Papers, Please
By:
SAM PFEIFLE
| April 24, 2013
Should companies be able to patent human genes?
Body Politics
Body Politics
By:
DEIRDRE FULTON
| April 24, 2013
You are the problem, not rich + corporations
Frank Talk
Stop believing that Big Money has a big effect on politicians. That's not the problem with Washington. You are the problem.
By:
LANCE TAPLEY
| April 24, 2013
North Pond Hermit's secret: meditation?
Mind power
Mind power
By:
JEFF INGLIS
| April 17, 2013
Moon Signs: April 18-24
Lunar lines
This period of quarter moon to full moon is the best time to take projects and relationships to the next level.
By:
SYMBOLINE DAI
| April 18, 2013
Death penalty sought for Maine prisoner
Escape-Artist Watch
Escape-Artist Watch
By:
LANCE TAPLEY
| April 10, 2013
Reworking Pulitzer masterpieces
Classic Remixes
Winners of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction will serve as fodder for Pulitzer Remix, an online initiative sponsored by the Found Poetry Review journal as part of National Poetry Month.
By:
DEIRDRE FULTON
| April 04, 2013
Story-telling: How to pass (or defeat) a bill
Legislative Logic
Humans haven't advanced much beyond the hunter-gatherer tribe around the campfire. That includes legislators.
By:
LANCE TAPLEY
| March 27, 2013
Whistleblower returns; Maine a prison-reform model
Prodigal Sons
On Valentine's Day, prisoner Deane Brown, who sounded an alarm that drew international attention to the savagery of solitary confinement and other abuses in the Maine State Prison's "supermax" unit, was returned to the Warren prison after an exile of more than six years.
By:
LANCE TAPLEY
| March 27, 2013
Chavez dies; will poor be cold?
Fuel Price Watch
Last week, a man whose determination to embarrass the American government extended to helping US citizens when their own government wouldn't died, reportedly suffering a heart attack.
By:
JEFF INGLIS
| March 13, 2013
Baldacci: watch your left flank
2014 Race
If John Baldacci runs for governor in 2014, he will encounter trouble on his left.
By:
LANCE TAPLEY
| March 13, 2013
Examining ‘Seneca, Selma, and Stonewall’
Making History
It will be recalled as the most famous line from President Barack Obama's second inaugural address delivered January 21.
By:
DEIRDRE FULTON
| March 06, 2013
Rare: Guard is charged
Prison Assault
Although prisoners and their advocates say rough treatment by guards of inmates — amounting to criminal assault — is not uncommon, Maine State Prison guard Captain David Cutler, 54, of Appleton, is apparently the only officer at the prison since 2005 to be charged with assaulting an inmate — and only the second in at least 20 years.
By:
LANCE TAPLEY
| March 07, 2013
Brennan takes leading role on school support
Learning for Dollars
Maine's high school graduation rate has improved by five percentage points in four years, the state Department of Education announced earlier this week.
By:
DEIRDRE FULTON
| February 27, 2013
Ponte’s prison reforms ramp up
Two Years Later
Several weeks after firing Maine State Prison warden Patricia Barnhart and two years after taking over the Department of Corrections, Commissioner Joseph Ponte appears determined to continue — and ramp up — his forceful program of reform.
By:
LANCE TAPLEY
| February 06, 2013
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BLOGS
LePage: Big company didn't ask about Maine taxes #mepolitics
About Town
| May 09, 2013 at 9:59 AM
LePage uses Obamacare to achieve his own political goal #mepolitics
May 08, 2013 at 10:12 AM
Portland, Maine tar sands resolution heads to full city council
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