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    October 31, 2011

    Maine’s Race to the Top plan provides help for youngest citizens

    Earlier this month, a cross-agency team made up of staff from the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services sent Maine's application for $32 million in Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge funds off to Washington, D.C.

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    October 31, 2011

    Grant for building owned by theater, not Grange

    The front page article of the Kennebec Journal tells us that Monmouth Grange has a grant.

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    October 31, 2011

    Time to review Japan’s global beef import rules

    An advisory panel of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare will start reviewing Japan's system to prevent beef contaminated with mad cow disease from entering the human food chain. The panel will consider whether the nation's guidelines for testing cattle for the disease, which are arguably the strictest in the world, and its restrictions on beef imports based on the guidelines are reasonable.

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    October 31, 2011

    Bilodeau a straight shooter who’s got our backs

    We are proud to endorse Jeff Bilodeau, for Augusta councilor at-large.

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    October 31, 2011

    Was America’s Shock and Awe war worth it?

    After nearly nine years, the deaths of more than 115,000 Iraqi civilians and more than 4,400 U.S. troops, and the expenditure of hundreds of billions of dollars, President Barack Obama has said the last American soldier would leave Iraq by year's end with his head held high.

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    October 31, 2011

    Bilodeau a breath of fresh air Augusta needs

    We need a person with fresh ideas on the City Council. We need his 23 years of experience serving in the Air Force and in the Maine National Guard. We need his energy and commitment to help us move forward as a community and a city.

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    October 31, 2011

    UMAINE NOTES: Bears look good in exhibitions

    ORONO -- The opposition will be more difficult from November on.

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    October 31, 2011

    COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Clemson, KSU take tumble in Top 25

    NEW YORK (AP) -- Clemson and Kansas State tumbled in The Associated Press college football poll after losing for the first time this season, and the top five teams in the rankings held their ground heading into the showdown between No. 1 LSU and No. 2 Alabama.

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    October 31, 2011

    Mess created by police, even if left by protesters

    It has been said that one picture is worth a thousand words.

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    October 31, 2011

    Obama’s jobs act should be called Union Jobs Bill

    The American Jobs Act the president continues to go around pushing is a jobs act I am sure, however, it is just like his first trillion dollar stimulus. It should be called the Unions Jobs Bill. It is nothing more than billions of taxpayer dollars to people who support him.