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Out & About: Tip-top music for late January

With the calendar approaching the end of January, the seasonal slowdown in the performing arts has pretty much ended, with most of southern Maine’s performers, producers and presenters returning to local stages with a variety of tip-top offerings.

Scott Andrews • Lifestyle •
Monday, January 21, 2013 at 2:10 pm

Forecaster Forum: 'Out' in Maine: How people, times change

Weeks before graduation from my small-town high school in the spring of 1975, I was caught by a state trooper having sex with another man in the woods of Maine. We were minors, exploring our sexuality in the back seat of a Volkswagen bug. The implications surrounding this event changed my ...

Dana Marcoux • Opinion •
Monday, January 21, 2013 at 11:50 am

The View From Away: Online college education isn't college or education

A friend recently sent me an article predicting the imminent demise of college as we know it at the hands of the cheaper, more efficient Internet. My friend sees this trend toward online higher education as an opportunity for me to teach in the digital classroom. She may be right. God know...

Mike Langworthy • Opinion •
Monday, January 21, 2013 at 11:10 am

The Universal Notebook: It's time to tax guns, ammo

Walking the dog the other day at Twin Brook Recreation Area in Cumberland, I was treated to the incessant bam-bam, bam-bam-bam, bam-bam, bam-bam-bam-bam, bam of someone targeting shooting somewhere off to the west. At least I hope they were just target shooting. You can’t discharge a...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
Monday, January 21, 2013 at 10:30 am

Forecaster Forum: Reports that we are dying are greatly exaggerated

Back in 1897, James Ross Clemens was ill. Not-so-careful passing on of information resulted in word that Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name of Mark Twain, was dying in London. When an enterprising reporter decided to check on Twain before publishing his demise, the author resp...

Cheryl Wormley • Opinion •
Monday, January 21, 2013 at 10:20 am

Letter: Looking forward to Delogu's follow-up

I would like to thank Orland Delogu for his well-researched Policy Wonk column on corporate welfare in Maine ("Corporate welfare in Main...

• Opinion •
Monday, January 21, 2013 at 9:50 am

Letter: Portland should reject tar-sands oil

I am writing in support of a policy currently being considered by the Portland City Council that would direct the city to only purchase and use fuel for city-owned vehicles that come from oil refineries that do not process tar sands. The tar sands policy is part of a larger environmental performa...

• Opinion •
Monday, January 21, 2013 at 9:20 am

Westbrook woman's death in Portland ruled a homicide

PORTLAND — A woman found dead in a vehicle at a motel Thursday afternoon has been identified as Margarita Fisenko Scott, 29, of Westbrook. After an autopsy by the state medical examiner, police said Scott's death was a homicide, the first in the city this year. The cause of deat...

News •
Monday, January 21, 2013 at 8:30 am

Police investigating 'suspicious' death at Portland motel

PORTLAND — Police are investigating the death of a woman whose body was discovered Thursday afternoon in a vehicle parked at a Riverside Street motel, near the Westbrook border. The body was discovered at Motel 6 at about 3:30 p.m, and police are treating the death as "suspicious," C...

News •
Friday, January 18, 2013 at 2:10 pm

From hot to not: Sussman, Hampton Inn projects put on hold in Portland

PORTLAND — Two proposed redevelopment projects in the India Street neighborhood have taken dramatic turns in the past week. Billionaire hedge-fund manager Donald Sussman put plans on hold to construct a 60-foot-tall condominium complex between Hampshire and Franklin streets. A...

William Hall • News •
Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 3:50 pm
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