FARMINGTON — Bail was set at $3,500 cash for a man who, along with a woman armed with a meat cleaver, is accused of attacking his former roommate with an ax last week.
April 2012
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL: Dreadful start, again
TORONTO (AP) — Opening-season road trips don’t seem to agree with the Boston Red Sox.
Grateful to Legislature for still funding public radio
I was relieved to learn on MPBN’s “Morning Report” that the Legislature, has wisely agreed to retain funding for “Morning Report” and other treasures offered on public radio. The collective stations of MPBM are great places for all Mainers to learn much. This looming issue had become a “political football” and, in the governor’s own […]
MAINE COMPASS: Workers comp bill caps benefits of seriously injured employees
In the final days of the session, the Legislature is considering a bill that would make significant changes to our workers compensation system, affecting injured workers throughout Maine.
Obama, media unite, paving way for a tyrant
The Affordable Care Act has gone to the Supreme Court, and that event has overshadowed another significant event. The president attempted to single out the oil companies and discriminate against them by removing their business investment write-offs, which every business in America, big or small, enjoys. He did this by claiming it was time to […]
China planners resume septic ordinance work
CHINA — The Planning Board reversed its earlier position and decided to continue work on a revised shoreland septic system compliance program that voters may consider as an alternative to scrapping the existing rules.
Mt. Blue school taxes to rise
FARMINGTON — The proposed 2012-13 budget for Mt. Blue Regional School District would increase the overall amount district towns pay in school taxes by 4.3 percent, or $439,340.
VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: What is Romney trying to hide?
Mitt Romney can’t possibly think he can get away with this.
GOP lawmaker says ’78 to 81′ Dems are communists
The claim was reminiscent of Joe McCarthy’s 1950s charges that communists had infiltrated the top ranks of the U.S. government.
Man tied to murdered Maine prostitute pleads guilty in related case
Megan Waterman’s body, along with nine others, have been found on a remote beach parkway on Long Island.