While the city’s final property tax rate will not be calculated until mid-summer, it is expected to increase from the current $22.20 per $1,000 of assessed valuation to $23.80 per $1,000 of assessed valuation.
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Posted inMaine, News, Politics
Lawmakers reach deal on highway budget to avoid partial shutdown
Unanimous votes in the Senate and House would create a new revenue stream for highway projects to make it less reliant on fuel taxes and borrowing, a move that decreases the potential for a partial shutdown of state government.
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Posted inSchools and Education
Voters resoundingly reject RSU 4 budget
Wales-based school district must reassess, then start budget process again.
Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
Scathing report finds Boris Johnson deliberately misled U.K. Parliament over ‘partygate’
A committee of lawmakers found the former prime minister’s actions were such a flagrant violation of the rules that they warranted a 90-day suspension from Parliament. He, instead, resigned Friday.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Two-time Oscar winner Glenda Jackson, who mixed acting with politics, dies at 87
One of the biggest British stars of the 1960s and 70s, she won 2 Academy Awards for ‘Women in Love’ in 1971 and ‘A Touch of Class’ in 1974.
Posted inBoston Red Sox, Sports
Red Sox score 5 runs in 7th inning, avoid sweep with 6-3 win over Rockies
Boston is off Thursday before opening a three-game series with the rival New York Yankees on Friday.
Posted inJ.P. Devine, Life & Culture, Movie Review J.P. Devine
‘Blue Jean’ script has problems, writes J.P. Devine
Life is softer for LGBT people in the UK now than it was in the ’80s in “Blue Jean,” when Margaret Thatcher initiated “Section 28.” Now, as the clouds thin, we find ourselves in a small, dreary school in Newcastle upon Tyne, where our young Jean, a gay physical education teacher, is a basketball coach. […]
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Douglas Rooks: Gov. Mills is stonewalling Maine’s tribes. She should reconsider
tribeOf all the issues that divide Gov. Janet Mills from most members of her own Democratic Party, none is more vexing, or seemingly inexplicable, than her dogged opposition to any substantive alteration of the Land Claims Settlement Act governing Maine’s relationship with its Indian tribes. The 1980 law has had vast and invidious consequences far […]
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Ben Bragdon: Gardiner school officials remove Pride flag, and take sides with bullies
A Pride flag hung until recently in Gardiner Area High School, sending to LGBTQ students the message that they belong, just like everyone else. It’s the right message to send to a group of students who haven’t always been treated well, and who now face a targeted attack by some of the most powerful people […]
