Lawmakers proposed loosening child labor laws in at least 10 states over the past 2 years.
2023
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Stone Mountain Arts Center plans Matt Nakoa show
Matt Nakoa plans to take the stage at 8 p.m. Friday, June 2, at Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dugway Road, in Brownfield. The singer song writer and pianist grew up on a small goat farm in Smyrna, New York, and began composing music as a teenager. Nakoa first solo album,”Light In The Dark” (2012), […]
Posted inBoston Red Sox, Sports
Angels complete sweep of slumping Red Sox in 7-3 win
Boston has lost four straight for the second time in two weeks.
Posted inJ.P. Devine, Life & Culture, Movie Review J.P. Devine
Julia Dreyfus should have passed on ‘You Hurt My Feelings,’ writes JP Devine
“Writer-director Nicole Holofcener is the gift that keeps on giving. Consider her work, all of which features the gifts of Catherine Keener: ‘Walking and Talking,’ ‘Lovely and Amazing’ and the wonderful ‘Friends With Money.’ If you’re a Keener fan, welcome home. Happiness is a thing called Keener.” I wrote those words about Nicole Holofcener 2010 […]
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Douglas Rooks: Despite what you hear, guns do not equal freedom
Since the 1970s, I’ve written editorials about what was then called “gun control.” In recent years, I largely passed over the subject. Back then, it was unthinkable elementary school kids could be gunned down in a classroom, Bible classes and synagogues profaned, or that shopping malls, cinemas, restaurants and music festivals would see mass killing […]
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Commentary: Nuclear power won’t help Maine reach its clean-energy goals
The industry lobby is promoting a renewed call for investments in nuclear technology, but there are less complex, more affordable choices.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Commentary: Proposed paid family and medical leave bill unworkable for Maine
The proposal is for a new short-term disability insurance program that will cost hundreds of millions of dollars and be one of the most benefit-rich programs in the country.
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May 25, 1995: Momma Baldacci’s Italian Restaurant set to reopen in Madison after around 2 year hiatus, full-time Oakland police officers may need to have college degree in order to be on force, and area students accepted into new Limestone magnet school await fate of school
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