AUGUSTA Lawmakers try laptops in effort to reduce costs Pilot program takes aim at paper use; part-time staff positions
AUGUSTA -- Rep. Kim Silsby cleared her House desk of papers late last week, filling a small black trash can with all sorts of documents.
CONSOLIDATION Senate to vote today on bill Cost-sharing has no opposition
AUGUSTA -- Planners working out mergers between local school districts are turning up the pressure on legislators to pass a bill that would allow their consolidation work to continue.
Bullying moves to the Internet Online anonymity presents a whole new set of problems to those protecting children
It's an age-old problem that's taken on a new form in a new age. And it's posing a new challenge for educators.
MCLU's Heath stirring the civil union pot
AUGUSTA -- The candidates running for the 1st Congressional District are scheduled to be in Augusta tonight for an event sponsored by the Maine Veterans Coordinating Committee.
Editorial
Counting what needs to be counted
College acceptances are in the mail, and high school seniors are ripping open fat envelopes and thin envelopes and sitting down with their parents to figure out where they'll spend the next four years of their lives.
Letters:
Attack on state workers misses important point
The letter from Kevin P. Morrissey was appropriately dated, April Fool's Day. In that letter Morrissey calls his wages "earned" and reflects that state workers are "non contributor" workers. Morrissey, my wages as a state worker are actually taxed twice. Once when you "earn" your wages, and once when we state workers "earn" ours. That makes me a "double contributor."
Lets make county jail inmates earn their keep
What's next at the Kennebec County jail? Religious services! What's wrong with the penal system today? How much is this going to cost taxpayers? I have to laugh when I read stories like this. It just doesn't make sense. Growing up in the 50's and 60's, my understanding of jail was that it was a place where people who committed crimes served their sentence.
Portland Press Herald
State leaders lobby for new refueling tankers
Gov. Baldacci and the congressional delegation also push for basing an active-duty unit in Bangor.
Some say they'll buy cigarettes online or in New Hampshire if lawmakers pass another increase.
Reservations at Maine state parks have hit an all-time high for this time of year, officials say.
As heating season winds down, no relief in oil prices
Prices usually head lower in the spring, but the volatile crude oil market may play the spoiler this year.
Diesel price hits record; truckers hold protest
One Maine driver spends $620 to fill his tank with diesel.
JUSTIN ELLISCredit card debt on rise among college students
Commentary:
Cigarette tax shouldn't be used to boost Dirigo
Tobacco taxes can be good policy, but the health-care system is already overfunded.
The test of new jail panel will be its ability to close jails
Corrections reform has begun slowly with a deal between state and county officials.
ELIZABETH MITCHELLA booster shot, and more, for health care
A bill before the Legislature would strengthen and extend the good results of Dirigo.
LEIGH DONALDSON, ColumnistAmericans have to be assured their votes will count
Lawmakers should make sure balloting fiascos can't happen again and that the next big election is secure.
Bangor Daily News
Monday, April 07, 2008
AUGUSTA, Maine - Mainers are paying more for their fuel because of unregulated speculation in the energy market, said Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine.
Down East Tattoo Show in Bangor draws more women, older clientele
Monday, April 07, 2008
BANGOR, Maine - For 57-year-old Levant resident Steve Doddy, attending the Down East Tattoo Show has become a yearly tradition that includes a group of friends from Canada, a birthday party and searching for the perfect ink.
Monday, April 07, 2008
A University of Maine graduate wounded Wednesday on a combat mission in Afghanistan died the next day after being airlifted to a U.S. Army medical facility in Germany for treatment.
Monday, April 07, 2008
BELFAST, Maine - A pilot of a single-engine aircraft was believed missing after witnesses reported seeing the plane crash into waters off Seaside Drive on Sunday evening.
Monday, April 07, 2008
PORTLAND, Maine - Along with robins and crocuses, a welcome sign of spring across northern New England is watching the heating season wind down. That usually signals a drop in the price of heating oil, but that hasn’t been the case this year.
Editorials:
Monday, April 07, 2008
Several Democratic politicians, a few columnists, and much of the talk-show world and blogosphere are telling Hillary Clinton to quit the race. She shouldn't and she almost certainly won't.
National Service
Monday, April 07, 2008
One of the injustices of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq is that this dangerous and arduous work has been borne by men and women who were essentially contracted to do the job. And that group, men and women who enlisted in the military, represents a small minority of American citizens.
Many of you have received a letter in the mail announcing how much money the federal government will be sending you as part of an 'economic stimulus' package.
The editorial 'Public Opinion: So What?' (BDN, March 29-30) touches on the crucial issue of American politics today, namely, that our political system is broken and needs to be fixed.
Delegation to explore Maine's economy
PORTLAND (AP) - A delegation of business, tourism and elected officials from Northern Ireland is coming to Maine to explore Gov. John Baldacci's "creative economy" initiative.
Truckers protest $620 diesel fill-up
EASTON, Pa. (AP) - Many drivers are shaking their heads at spending $50 to fill up their tanks.
Maine wants refueling tankers upgraded
BANGOR (AP) - Maine leaders used a weekend visit by the director of the Air National Guard to make a pitch for bringing new refueling tankers, and possibly an active duty unit, to Bangor International Airport, home of the 101st Air Refueling Wing.
Editorial
Taking the battle out of consolidation
"I don't believe a committee can write a book," the historian Arnold Toynbee once uttered. "It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can write a book."
Bush shamefully flees Iraqi refugee crisis
In several recent speeches on Iraq, there was one issue President Bush never mentioned. That's the issue of Iraqi refugees.
MPBN
Passenger Rail Funding Kindles Resentment in the House A bill that began as a well-intended effort to expand passenger rail service in Maine quickly degenerated into a 45-minute debate on spending priorities in the House today and rekindled some long-held resentments that divide Maine's less prosperous northern residents from their wealthier southern counterparts. Lawmakers utlimately approved spending $2.5 million dollars a year to extend passenger rail service from Portland to Brunswick in a vote that divided largely along regional lines. A.J. Higgins reports
Immigrants Target of Increased Prosecutions and Harassment
PolitickerME.Com
Allen, Michaud attend Dems’ office opening in Bangor
