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Policy Wonk: Corporate welfare in Maine: Alive, well -- and growing

Fourteen years ago, investigative reporters Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele did a lengthy, four-week series for Time magazine that estimated the federal government “shells out $125 billion a year in corporate welfare.” That number is much larger today. Recently, Lo...

Orlando Delogu • Opinion •
Monday, January 7, 2013 at 10:00 am

The Universal Notebook: Peeved at my own incompetence

Nothing puts me in a foul mood faster than something I can’t fix. That means I’m in a fuming funk a lot of the time, not fit to live with until whatever is broken is either repaired or replaced. At the moment it’s the #*(^%$! roof. The roof over my sunroom office has been...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
Monday, January 7, 2013 at 9:50 am

The View From Away: There's snow end in sight

OK, show of hands: who has shoveled enough snow? Come on, get 'em up. I refuse to believe that I am the only one. And please, no homespun Downeast folk wisdom. “You call this snow? We can still see the windows on our house! Longfellow wrote 'The Song Of Hiawatha' in deeper sno...

Mike Langworthy • Opinion •
Monday, January 7, 2013 at 8:50 am

Yarmouth power plant, Freeport junkyard hit with environmental fines

YARMOUTH — The Maine Department of Environmental Protection levied fines totalling more than $48,000 against the Wyman Power Station and a Freeport junkyard.   Wyman, the oil-fired power plant at 667 Cousins St. on Cousins Island,

Will Graff • News •
Friday, January 4, 2013 at 4:00 pm

Unsung Hero: Janet Kandoian, the indomitable 'Miss K'

SOUTH PORTLAND — The year: 1971. The setting: a fourth-grade class at the Willard School. The question from one of the students to the young, new teacher: “Just how old are you, anyway?” Janet Kandoian, known as “Miss K” to many students, well re...

David Treadwell • News •
Friday, January 4, 2013 at 3:20 pm

Yarmouth-based Cuddledown acquired by Mass. catalog company

YARMOUTH — Cuddledown, the high-end bedding retailer based in Yarmouth, has been acquired by a catalog company in Massachusetts. Potpourri Group acquired Cuddledown in December, according to an announcement Thursday by American Capital Ltd., Potpourri's parent company. Details of the...

Whit Richardson, Bangor Daily News • News •
Friday, January 4, 2013 at 10:30 am

Freeport Police Beat: Jan. 3

Arrests 12/23 at 7:12 p.m. Peggi J. Conners, 38, of Foye Road, Wiscasset, was arrested on Main Street by Officer Matthew Moorehouse on a charge of theft by unauthorized taking or transfer. Summonses 12/26 at 4:35 p.m. Noelle L. Fochler, 2...

Police Beat •
Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Northern Meetings: Jan. 3-9

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Community •
Wednesday, January 2, 2013

People and Business

Appointments Falmouth Historical Society recently elected a new board: Scott McLeod, president; Janice de Lima, vice president; Betsy Jo Whitcomb, secretary; Fred Howe, treasurer...

• Community •
Tuesday, January 1, 2013

'Frugal' local budgets dictate employee salaries

PORTLAND — Elected officials and public employees in greater Portland didn't get rich on their wages during 2012, but some individuals came closer than others. The information was compiled by The Forecaster, which obtained the names and annual compensation of the highest-paid officia...

William Hall • News •
Monday, December 31, 2012 at 11:40 am
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