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Out & About: 'The Last Romance' is outstanding dramatic-comedy

The recent wave of superb spring weather underscored the fact that Maine’s summertime is quickly approaching. The same can be said for the arts and entertainment calendar as the fall-winter-spring seasons wrap up for most producers and presenters, clearing the way for summer. It&rsqu...

Scott Andrews • Lifestyle •
Monday, May 6, 2013 at 1:00 pm

The Universal Notebook: LePage, Bowen both get F's

Did anyone ever benefit from being publicly identified as a total failure? I don’t think so. But that’s what Gov. Paul LePage and education Commissioner Stephen Bowen have done by releasing a completely bogus Maine School Performance Grading System report card that ranks some 600 publ...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
Monday, May 6, 2013 at 12:30 pm

Policy Wonk: Concrete alternatives to the LePage budget

As this column was about to go to press, a bi-partisan group of legislators led by Sen. Richard Woodbury, U-Yarmouth, released a bold proposal to reform state taxes and tax expenditures. There is a lot to like in the bi-partisan reforms, but some provisions will almost certai...

Orlando Delogu • Opinion •
Monday, May 6, 2013 at 10:50 am

Abby's Road: My son explains it all

My son is almost 19 months old. Recently, he was trying to bite my kneecap as I bent down to put away some folded laundry. I turned to him and I said: “Son, what is up?” This was his answer: “What is up? You are up. The stairs are up. The kitchen stools are up. I l...

• Opinion •
Monday, May 6, 2013 at 10:20 am

Short Relief: Portland should tap street-corner labor pool

I was relatively lucky to graduate from law school in 1986. The U.S. economy and employment rates were growing. Law firms were expanding and hiring, and increasing the opportunities for all law graduates. I took a job working for the federal government in Washington, D.C. By the early 1990...

Halsey Frank • Opinion •
Monday, May 6, 2013 at 10:00 am

Man rescued from water near Ocean Gateway in Portland

PORTLAND — Police, firefighters and a taxi driver rescued a man who fell into the water near Ocean Gateway marine terminal along the Portland waterfront late Tuesday night, City Hall spokeswoman Nicole Clegg said Wednesday.

News •
Thursday, May 2, 2013 at 10:30 am

Albert Brenner Glickman, 79: Well-known philanthropist

PORTLAND — Albert Brenner Glickman, 79, died peacefully April 27. He was known as a family man, philanthropist and business leader. Born in Portland, Glickman was raised by his widowed mother Mildred Brenner. Brenner later married Joe Glickman and the family moved to Cali...

Obituaries •
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 1:20 pm

Hotel's Portland plaza proposal remains divisive

PORTLAND — Eight months after a previous design was rejected, a City Council committee got a look last week at a new proposal for developing public space in Congress Square Plaza. But regardless of the revised design, interviews this week showed that the proposal continues to polariz...

William Hall • News •
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 1:20 pm

Portland school budget raises taxes 3.7%

PORTLAND — The City Council on Monday formally received a proposed $97.9 million budget for the School Department. The spending plan for fiscal 2014 is about $3.7 million more than this year's budget, and is based on raising the portion of property taxes that fund the schools by 3.69...

William Hall • News •
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 11:30 am

Portland business brings composting to the masses

PORTLAND — Tyler Frank believes garbage bags may someday be obsolete. The Vesper Street resident is one of the founders of Garbage to Garden, a community-based curbside composting service that was launche...

William Hall • News •
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 11:00 am
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