Former President Donald Trump was suspended on Facebook on Jan. 7, a day after the deadly 2021 insurrection.
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Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Maine’s ACA enrollment declines slightly, but more people have health coverage
The percentage of Mainers without health insurance dropped from 8% in 2019 to 5.7% in 2021, the latest year data was available.
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Posted inMaine, News
State lawmaker calls for $200 million investment in affordable housing
Rep. Rebecca Millett’s bill is one of many that will be considered by a new Joint Select Committee on Housing, created by the Legislature this session.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Maine unemployment rate inches up
The state’s jobless rate rose slightly to 3.8% in December and is just slightly above the U.S. rate.
Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
Here’s how to compare the Trump, Biden, Pence classified papers cases
There are similarities – but also major differences – among the classified-records situations of President Biden, former President Donald Trump and Trump’s vice president, Mike Pence.
Posted inNation & World, News
Álvaro Colom, former president of Guatemala, dies at 71
Colom governed from 2008 to 2012 and supported a United Nations anti-corruption mission that later investigated him.
Posted inMaine, Morning Sentinel
Project planned for downtown Waterville would provide more than 60 housing units
As part of the plan, buildings at the corner of Temple and Front streets, as well as a former office building at the corner of Appleton and Front, would be razed and two buildings initially constructed in their place.
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Victor Navasky, historian and Nation editor, dies at 90
He presided for years over the liberal weekly The Nation and wrote influential books on the anti-Communist blacklist and Robert F. Kennedy’s justice department.
Posted inBusiness, Kennebec Journal, Maine
Winners of 3 awards recognizing contributions of local businesses, entrepreneurs to be decided Friday via text voting
Voting will take place at the Kennebec Valley Chamber of Commerce’s annual formal banquet, the Kenney Awards, which returns to the Augusta Civic Center for the first time since 2020.
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Lloyd Morrisett, who helped launch ‘Sesame Street,’ dies at 93
The co-creator of the beloved children’s education TV series is remembered as a ‘wise, thoughtful, and above all kind leader.’