Everyone knows that smoking causes health problems for the smoker. Smoking during pregnancy, however, causes a wide variety of additional health problems for the mother, the fetus and newborn.
March 2013
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JOHN FRARY: Legislators must understand consequences of supported bills
In May 2011, the Republican majority, along with a single Democrat, rejected a bill to increase the minimum wage from $7.50 to $8 per hour.
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Bill Nemitz: A gun in every home? Proposal ‘makes point’
BYRON – Don’t let the peace and quiet fool you. When the federal invasion comes, Bruce Simmons predicts, this tiny hamlet on the far edge of nowhere will be locked, loaded and ready for Armageddon. “It could happen tomorrow,” Simmons warned Friday, his .40-caliber pistol (complete with 15-round magazine) at the ready. “You say the […]
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M.D. HARMON: Student debt threatens to burst higher education bubble
This isn’t a surprise to anyone who knows — or is — a recent college graduate staggering under the weight of huge student loans.
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Maine’s dairy farms in twilight
The state’s dwindling milk producers toil every day in operations that are particularly fraught with financial uncertainty. Is it any wonder some are closing the barn doors for good?
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Washington Notebook: Bedeviled by cuts, Navy clips Blue Angels’ wings
WASHINGTON -— The sequester has been in effect for just over a week now and the economy hasn’t crumbled. A week’s time has not provided much clarity or certainty, however. For instance, the organizers of the annual Great State of Maine Air Show in Brunswick were counting on the Navy’s elite Blue Angels flying team […]
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SPRING TRAINING: Orioles prospect goes 2 innings in win over Sox
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Right-hander Dylan Bundy, the Baltimore Orioles top pick in the 2011 draft, made his first Grapefruit League start Saturday night, going two innings, giving up one unearned run on a hit and two walks with a strikeout.
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Rice likely to succeed Donilon as next NSA
The appointment would be a dramatic twist of fate after her flawed account of the Benghazi attack.
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Maine syrup producers hope to avoid repeat of last year
Last March, temperatures reached nearly 80 degrees for most of a week, inhibiting sap production by southern Maine maples.