When her teammates at Maine Maritime Academy began practices for the 2011-12 season, Alexis Bennett was with them. For the first time in her college basketball career, Bennett, a junior, wasn’t still with the Mariners soccer team.
December 2011
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Senate OKs un-American piece of legislation
A few days ago, the U.S. Senate voted to keep a provision in the national defense authorization bill. The provision allows for the U.S. military to detain indefinitely and without due process any American in America or in another country or any other person in America or in another country that they suspect to be […]
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Honor U.S. service members this Christmas
Another Christmas is coming, and once again I am reminded of my Marine Corps buddy and what he went through in Korea circa 1950-1951. At the time, America and the U.N. embarked on saving South Korea as the North Koreans invaded, bent on making the whole of Korea communist. My pal and his unit had […]
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Augusta Occupiers say they will stay despite arson
AUGUSTA — Scared. But not scared out of occupying. So say Occupy Augusta participants, following a tent fire Monday night at their Capitol Park encampment that authorities later said was intentionally set.
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SNAPSHOT: No need to water these
Terri Webber, of Benton, walks with an umbrella Tuesday while choosing a Christmas along Waterville’s College Avenue.
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Do presidents age faster than rest of us?
White House wannabes take note: Contrary to the idea that being president speeds up aging, a study shows that many U.S. commanders in chief have actually lived longer than their peers.
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Former Maine Dem chief tapped for State Dept. post
Frederick “Rick” Barton has been nominated to be assistant secretary for conflict and stabilization operations and coordinator for reconstruction and stabilization.
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Obama sees ‘make or break’ time for middle class
The president warns of the unraveling of the American dream, and calls for restoring financial security for middle-class workers.
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Collins to introduce bipartisan payroll tax cut bill
As promised when she became the sole GOP senator last week to vote in favor of raising taxes on millionaires to pay for a Social Security payroll tax cut extension, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine today is unveiling a bipartisan payroll tax cut extension bill that also advertises itself as a “jobs bill.” Get […]
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LePage calls for overhaul of Medicaid benefits
The governor released a proposal today that calls for eliminating Medicaid eligibility for more than 60,000 people.