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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

Worth the wait...McAuley solves Deering, extends win streak to 34

PORTLAND—For 18 hours, McAuley junior Allie Clement and her teammates could do nothing but wait. After Friday night's highly anticipated girls' basketball Stevens Avenue showdown against rival Deering was suspended fi...

Michael Hoffer • Sports •
Saturday, January 5, 2013 at 8:00 pm

Anti-abortion, abortion rights demonstrators duel in Portland

PORTLAND — A business owner rallied an abortion rights demonstration on Friday to counter the regular appearance on his street of anti-abortion protesters he called “obnoxious.” The dueling demonstrations set the stage for chanting, arguing and sometimes yelling, as dozen...

Noah Hurowitz, Bangor Daily News • News •
Friday, January 4, 2013 at 4:10 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

Portland taps Virginia official for powerful, new 2nd-in-command post

PORTLAND — City Manager Mark Rees has chosen a veteran public official from Richmond, Va., to step into a new, powerful position in Maine’s largest city. As Portland’s first deputy city manager – an influential job that replaces what had previously been two ass...

Seth Koenig, Bangor Daily News • News •
Friday, January 4, 2013 at 2:40 pm

Like father, like son: Portland's new fire chief goes to work

Portland's new fire chief, Jerome LaMoria, right, receives his badge from his father, a former Vermont fire chief, after taking the oath of office in City Hall on Jan. 3. LaMoria, a 25-year firefighting veteran in Prince George's County, Md., replaced Frederick LaMontagne, who retired as chief in...

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Friday, January 4, 2013 at 2:30 pm

Nordstrom Rack, Bon-Ton coming to South Portland

SOUTH PORTLAND — Nordstrom, the Seattle-based high-end fashion and accessories retailer, will open its first store in Maine this spring at the Maine Crossing Shopping Center off Running Hill Road. A 30,000-square-foot Nordstrom Rack will be built in the space formerly occupied by clo...

David Harry • News •
Wednesday, January 2, 2013 at 2:50 pm

No bombs found in Portland transit hub scare

PORTLAND — A man who said he was carrying two bombs prompted the evacuation of the Portland Transportation Center on Tuesday morning, Jan. 1. Police later arrested the man and found he had no explosives. Police said Rodney Jewell, 44, of Portland, walked into the bus and train...

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Wednesday, January 2, 2013 at 8:00 am
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