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Maine
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Maine State is bordered
by the state of New Hampshire (north).
Maine state also borders the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Maine (southeast),
and the Bay of Fundy (east).
Canada
Maine state is also bordered by the country of Canada and the Canadian
provinces of Quebec (northwest) and New Brunswick (northeast). Across from
the Bay of Fundy is the Canadian province of Nova Scotia (east).
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Maine
MAINE News:
20090211
Money
- Law
- Politics
- Federal
- Workers
- Maine
"Source:
Collins Strips Stim Bill Of Whistleblower Protections."
... "The House stimulus bill contained a provision designed to protect
federal whistleblowers. Currently, those protections are shockingly weak.
According to the Project On Government Oversight, whistleblowers who are
fired or demoted can file a complaint with a government board -- but over
the last eight years, that board has ruled in favor of whistleblowers only
twice in 55 cases." ... "More to the point, the protections were designed
to encourage federal workers to point out cases where taxpayer money is
subject to waste, fraud, or abuse -- a legitimate concern when Congress
spends $800 billion, and one that centrists and Republicans have been particularly
exercised about." ... "Yesterday, 20 members of the House, from both parties,
sent a letter to House negotiators urging them to ensure that the protections
remained." ... "But, according to a person following the bill closely,
Collins used today's conference committee to drastically water down the
measure, citing national security concerns as the reason for her opposition.
In the end, the protections were so weakened that House negotiators balked,
and the result was that the entire amendment was removed." ... "According
to the person following the bill, [Maine Republican Senator Susan] Collins
was the "central roadblock" to passing the protections." ... "So when,
in the coming months, conservatives start jumping up and down over the
fact that money from the stimulus bill is being wasted, as they surely
will, it's worth remember that a key measure designed to help expose that
waste was removed from the bill -- and by a senator said to be a champion
of fiscal discipline." -By Zachary Roth
-TPMMuckracker
.TalkingPointsMemo
20081112
Barack
Obama - 2008
Election - Race
- Terrorism
- Politics
- New
Jersey - New
York - Michigan
- Pennsylvania
- Calif
- North
Carolina - Maine
"Local
Newspapers Cover Rising Number of Racist Anti-Obama Actions in Small Towns."
... "Away from the spotlight, many local newspapers around the country
have covered recent incidents of racially-motivated reactions to last week’s
[2008] election, from flags hung upside down to the dangling of nooses
and cross-burnings. As we noted last week, a couple in northern New Jersey
who had an [Democratic President-Elect Barack] Obama sign on their front
lawn woke up to find the charred remains of a cross out there. Local residents
today announced a "unity march" to protest the still-unsolved incident."
... "Now come these fresh reports." ... "The Associated Press revealed
today, "Police on eastern Long Island [New York region] are investigating
reports that more than a dozen cars were spray painted with racist graffiti,
reportedly including a message targeting President-elect Barack Obama.
The graffiti included racist slurs and sexually graphic references. At
least one resident in the quiet Mastic [New York] neighborhood told Newsday
her son's car was scribbled with a message threatening to kill Obama.""
... "Employees at Hampel's Key and Lockshop in Traverse City, Michigan,
flew an American flag upside down last Wednesday protesting of the new
president-elect, the Traverse City Record-Eagle reported." ... "Also in
Michigan, in Midland, a man dressed in full Ku Klux Klan regalia walked
around toting a handgun and waving an American flag. Initially denying
it, the man eventually admitted to police that the display was a reaction
to the Obama victory." ... "In Pennsylvania, an interracial couple in Apolacon
Township discovered the remains of a burned cross in their front yard."
... "Authorities in Temecula, Calif. [California], found spray-painted
graffiti on a city sidewalk containing a swastika and anti-Obama slogan."
... "Today, the NAACP called on North Carolina State University to expel
four students who spray painted racist messages about Obama." ... "Another
post-election noose incident happened in Maine. “More than 75 people rallied
Sunday against an incident last week in which black figures were hanged
by nooses from trees on Mount Desert Island the day after Barack Obama
won the presidential election,” according to the Bangor Daily News." -By
Dexter Hill -EditorAndPublisher.com
20081108
Barack
Obama - Nebraska
- History
- Law
- Maine
- 2008
Election
"Obama
wins electoral vote in Nebraska." ... "For the first
time ever, a blue circle will appear in Nebraska on national electoral
maps." ... "[2008 Election Democratic President-Elect] Democrat Barack
Obama won the Omaha-based 2nd Congressional District on Friday, scooping
up one of the state's five electoral votes." ... "In the process, he made
history and shone the spotlight on Nebraska's unusual electoral college
system." ... "[Obama's Nebraska campaign director John] Berge said the
victory was a tribute to all the work done by staffers and the hundreds
of Obama volunteers who manned telephones and walked neighborhoods in the
Omaha [Nebraska] metropolitan area." ... "Obama's win will assuredly spark
interest in the split electoral system, which only Nebraska and Maine use.
All other states are winner-take-all on electoral votes." ... "It was the
first time since 1964 that Nebraska has awarded an electoral vote to a
Democrat. The state has been reliably Republican since it voted for Democrat
Lyndon B. Johnson that year." ... "Obama ignored Nebraska's history this
year, sending 16 paid staffers into the 2nd District and opening three
offices in Omaha." ... "A 1991 state law allowed Obama to concentrate his
efforts on the Omaha area, where Democrats outnumber Republicans." ...
"Nebraska is the first state in the modern era to have a split electoral
decision." ... "Nebraska and Maine are not, however, the first states to
try a split-electoral system, said Randy Adkins, a political scientist
at the University of Nebraska at Omaha." -By Robynn
Tysver -Herald
20080602
Hillary
Clinton - Accounting
- Politics
- Florida
- Michigan
- Iowa
- Puerto
Rico - Nevada
- Washington
- Maine
- Barack
Obama - 2008
Election - "Hillary:
Peddling pop vote canards to the end." ... "The facts,
which must be repeated:" ... "[2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate]
Hillary [Clinton] does not lead in the popular vote by any measure other
than her own idiosyncratic belief that Florida should count even though
it didn't and hundreds of thousands of Floridians didn't vote because they
were told it wouldn't; that Puerto Rico should count even though Puerto
Ricans can't vote in the general election ("lead us to victory in November"???);
that Michigan should also count even though it didn't and thousands of
Michiganders didn't vote because they were told it wouldn't and she was
the only person on the ballot; that Obama should get zero votes -- Zero!!!
-- from Michigan ["Uncommited" received 238,168 votes, Clinton received
328,309 votes]; and that Obama also should get no votes from four states
that he won [Iowa, Nevada, Washington, and Maine], because they held caucuses
and didn't count the popular vote." -By John Riley
-Newsday.com
20080119
-
Illegal
- Sports
- Drugs
- Business
- Politics
- Maine
- "A
Debt of Gratitude Owed to Tom Davis." ... "On Tuesday
morning before a standing-room only crowd in Room 2154 of the Sam Rayburn
House Office Building on Capitol Hill, former Senate Majority Leader [Maine
Democratic Senator] George Mitchell, D-Maine — a man who almost single-handedly
could give politics a good name — speaking in cogent and complete paragraphs
commanded the entire room's attention." ... "Mitchell, the author of a
409-page report on the illegal use of steroids and performance-enhancing
drugs by 86 Major League Baseball players was the leadoff witness on hearings
on that subject called by the House Committee on Oversight and Government
Reform." ... "George Mitchell, who brokered peace in war-torn Northern
Ireland, and who, if the gods were just, would have been either president
or chief justice, or both, wears no man's collar. His indictment spared
nobody in a position of influence: "Everybody involved in baseball over
the past two decades — commissioners, club officials, the players' association
and players — shares to some extent the responsibility for the steroids
era."-Mark Shields -Creators.com
20070908
-
Mitt
Romney
- Robert
Lichfield - Political
- Money
- Child
- Behavior
- Schools
- Utah
- Massachusetts
- Maine
- 2006
Election - 2008
Election - "Businessman
quits as fundraiser for Romney: Robert Lichfield
of Utah is linked to the largest contribution in the 2006 Maine governor's
race." ... "Robert Lichfield, a controversial Utah businessman linked to
an organization facing civil allegations of child abuse and also connected
to the largest contribution in the 2006 [election] Maine governor's race,
has resigned from a fundraising position with [2008 election Republican
Presidential Candidate] Mitt Romney's presidential campaign." ... "Lichfield
is named as a defendant in a federal lawsuit filed by more than 100 families
alleging that their teenaged children were mistreated at "behavior modification"
centers associated with the World Wide Association of Specialty Programs
and Schools, an organization that Lichfield founded." ... "Until he resigned
from the Romney campaign, Lichfield was co- chairman of its Utah finance
committee." ... "Lichfield's role with the former Massachusettts governor's
campaign has come under scrutiny since the Portland Press Herald/Maine
Sunday Telegram reported in May on both the civil lawsuit and Lichfield's
connection to contributions totaling $250,000 to a political action committee
established in Maine by the Republican Governors Association. " -By
Kevin Wack -MaineToday.com
20070815
-
Kid
- Safe
- Health
- Consumer
- Manufacturers
- Mo
- Vt
- Me
- US
- China
- "U.S.-Made
Toys Benefit From China’s Troubles." ... "Whittle
Shortline Railroad, a company in Louisiana, Mo. [Missouri], that makes
wooden trains and trucks, posted a banner on its Web site several weeks
ago: “100 percent kid-safe,” it read, “with lead-free paints.” Mike Whitworth,
the company’s owner, said the recent recalls of Chinese-made toys found
to contain lead in their paint has been good for his business. Very good."
... "With about 80 percent of the toys sold in the United States manufactured
in China, the relatively few manufacturers of American-made toys who remain
have relied to some extent on snob appeal and survived mostly by emphasizing
the quality of their products — even if they cost more money." ... "But
some are now pointing to another competitive advantage: you can count on
them to be lead free." ... "“It’s created a lot of buzz,” said Mike Rainville,
owner of Maple Landmark toys in Middlebury, Vt. [Vermont], who said his
company had experienced a “nudge” in sales." ... "Sue Dennison, co-owner
of Roy Toy, which is based in East Machias, Me. [Maine], said orders were
up about 25 percent over the last several weeks." -By
Andrew Martin -NYTimes
20070809
-
Maine
- Texas
- New
Orleans - Louisiana
- Hurricane
Katrina - History
- "Bush
on track to become the vacation president." ... "On
Thursday, [Republican President] Bush left for a weekend in Kennebunkport,
Maine, and his family's summer compound, Walker's Point. On Monday, he
heads to his Crawford [Texas] retreat, where he has spent all or part of
418 days of his presidency, according to Mark Knoller, a CBS News White
House correspondent and meticulous record-keeper." ... "Bush's August sojourn
will be his 65th trip to Crawford, according to Knoller." ... "The presidential
vacation-time record holder is the late Ronald Reagan, who tallied 436
days in his two terms." ... "Even so, this year's August vacation for Bush
is a contrast to previous years such as 2005, when he dragged out vacation
in Texas to five weeks. That was also the year Bush remained on vacation
immediately after Hurricane Katrina hit." -By Julie
Mason -Chron
20070730
-
Alberto
R Gonzales - Secret
- Government
- Wiretapping
- Torture
- Intelligence
- Law
- Politics
- Civil
Liberties - Wis
- Texas
- Maine
- "Gonzales's
Truthfulness Long Disputed: Claims of Misstatements
to Shield [Republican President] Bush Stretch Back a Decade." ... "When
Alberto R. Gonzales was asked during his January 2005 confirmation hearing
whether the Bush administration would ever allow wiretapping of U.S. citizens
without warrants, he initially dismissed the query as a "hypothetical situation.""
... "But when [Wisconsin Democratic Senator] Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.)
pressed him further, Gonzales declared: "It is not the policy or the agenda
of this president to authorize actions that would be in contravention of
our criminal statutes."" ... "By then, however, the government had been
conducting a secret wiretapping program for more than three years without
court oversight, possibly in conflict with federal intelligence laws. Gonzales
had personally defended the effort in fierce internal debates. Feingold
later called his testimony that day "misleading and deeply troubling.""
... "Over the past 2 1/2 years, lawmakers have accused Gonzales of dissembling
on many topics, including civil liberties abuses under the USA Patriot
Act and his role in reviewing aggressive interrogation tactics. After a
Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in February 2006, Gonzales sent the
panel a six-page, single-spaced letter to "clarify" six major points of
testimony, including his erroneous claim that the Justice Department had
never undertaken a legal analysis of domestic wiretapping." ... "Questions
about Gonzales's willingness to shade the truth on Bush's behalf came to
prominence in the 1996 episode in which Bush was excused from Texas jury
duty in a drunken-driving case. Bush was then the state's governor, and
Gonzales was his general counsel. If Bush had served, he probably would
have had to disclose his own drunken-driving conviction in Maine two decades
earlier." ... "The judge, prosecutor and defense attorney involved in the
case have said that Gonzales met with the judge and argued that jury service
would pose a potential conflict of interest for Bush, who could be asked
to pardon the defendant. Gonzales has disputed that account. He made no
mention of meeting with the judge in a written statement submitted to the
Senate Judiciary Committee." (1, 2)
-By Dan Eggen and Amy Goldstein with contributions
by Alice Crites -WashingtonPost
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