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MAINE News:
 Money
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-  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 
 Barack
Obama - 2008
Election - Race
-  Terrorism
- Politics
-  New
Jersey -  New
York -  Michigan
-  Pennsylvania
-  Calif
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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 
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
 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
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Czech
Republic - History
- Maine
- Politics
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Nuclear
- "Russians
threaten to counter US shield." ... "Russia could
site cruise missiles in Kaliningrad, the Russian enclave between Poland
and Lithuania, if the US goes ahead with plans for a missile defence shield
in central Europe, Russia’s first deputy prime minister warned on Wednesday."
... "The televised comments by Sergei Ivanov – a possible successor to
President Vladimir Putin – came two days after Mr Putin proposed using
a new radar station being built in southern Russia in place of a planned
US radar in the Czech Republic. The proposal was made during informal talks
with US [Republican] president George W. Bush in Kennebunkport, Maine."
... "Mr Putin warned last month that Moscow would once again target Europe
with nuclear missiles if the US shield went ahead." ... "Formerly the German-speaking
region of East Prussia, Kaliningrad became part of the Soviet Union after
1945. In the cold war it was a military base and closed to outsiders. After
the break-up of the USSR in 1991, Kaliningrad became an enclave cut off
from Russia." -By Neil Buckley in Moscow and Demetri
Sevastopulo -FT.com
Michael
Hayden - 
Intelligence
- Terrorism
- Secrets
- Law
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Privacy
- Porter
Goss - Maine
- Russ
Feingold
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Wisconsin
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Oregon
- "Senators
Use Hayden Hearing to Criticize Bush Surveillance Plan."
... "Senators reviewing General Michael Hayden's nomination to lead the
CIA used his confirmation hearing to criticize the Bush administration's
failure to tell them about warrantless eavesdropping of suspected terrorists."
... "``The Congress was really never consulted or informed in a manner
that we could truly perform our oversight role,'' Maine Republican Olympia
Snowe told Hayden. The failure to brief all members of the House and Senate
intelligence committees until the day before the confirmation hearing ``breeds
corrosive mistrust,'' she said." ... "Democrats Russ Feingold of Wisconsin
and Ron Wyden of Oregon accused Hayden of misleading Congress in 2002 when
he said the government was obtaining warrants to conduct surveillance."
... "President George W. Bush nominated Hayden to succeed Porter Goss,
himself a former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. Goss resigned
from the CIA post earlier this month. Hayden is currently deputy director
in the Office of National Intelligence, which was created last year to
coordinate all U.S. intelligence-gathering operations." -By
James Rowley and Jeff St.Onge -Bloomberg
Internet
- Business
- Telecommunications
- Legislation
- Intel
- Maine
- 
ND
- "Intel
throws support to Net neutrality push." ... "Intel
Corp. has waded into the debate over the future of the Internet, joining
major Web companies in supporting legislation that would force Internet
service providers to treat all traffic equally." ... "The House Committee
on Energy and Commerce approved a telecommunications bill Wednesday that
did not contain the kind of safeguard the "net neutrality" proponents are
seeking." ... "With the defeat in the House, attention on the issue is
expected to shift to the Senate, where Sens. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, and
Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., plan to introduce a net neutrality bill."
-AP via -MSNBC
Gordon
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Lott - 
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Ga
Texas
- Maine
- Gay
- Law
- "Texas
Voters Approve Ban on Gay Marriage." ... "Texas voters
Tuesday overwhelming approved a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage,
making their state the 19th to take that step. In Maine, however, a proposal
to repeal a new gay-rights law was trailing in early returns." ... "In
Maine, early returns indicated voters were spurning a measure placed on
the ballot by a church-backed conservative coalition that would repeal
a gay-rights law approved by lawmakers earlier this year. The lawmakers
expanded the state's human rights act to outlaw discrimination based on
sexual orientation, a step already taken by the five other New England
states." -By David Crary
-AP via -Guardian.co.uk
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- Maine
- "Realities
vs. policy: Women face growing combat roles in Iraq."
... "Jennifer Guay went to war to be a grunt. And the 170-pound former
bartender from Leeds, Maine, with cropped red hair and a penchant for the
bench press, has come pretty close." ... "It was mid-February and Guay,
26, an Army specialist who was the first woman to be assigned as an infantry
combat medic, was spending 10 hours a day on missions with the 82nd Airborne
Division, dodging rockets and grenades in the crowded streets of Mosul
[Iraq]." ... "As American women in uniform patrol bomb-ridden highways,
stand duty at checkpoints shouldering M-16s and raid houses in insurgent-contested
towns, many have come to believe this war has rendered obsolete a decade-old
Pentagon policy barring them from serving with ground-combat battalions."
-By Ann Scott Tyson-WashingtonPost
via -SeattleTimes
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- Maine
- "Welcome
Stop for Warriors: Locals in Bangor, Maine, are on
a mission to greet every military plane, at any time, in any weather. Their
tally so far: 200,000 troops." ... "Tired and bleary-eyed, Marines of the
1st Battalion, 7th Regiment, based at Twentynine Palms, Calif. [California],
were finally back on U.S. soil after seven months on the front lines in
Iraq." ... "But they were still many miles and hours from their families
and the homecoming they longed for. Their officers told them they would
be on the ground for 60 to 90 minutes while their chartered plane was refueled."
... "So they disembarked and began walking through the airport terminal
corridor to a small waiting room." ... "That's when they heard the applause."
... "Lining the hall and clapping were dozens of Bangor residents who have
set a daunting task for themselves: They want every Marine, soldier, sailor
and airman returning through the tiny international airport here to get
a hero's welcome." -By Tony Perry -LAtimes
via -KTLA
- 2004
ELECTION - "Kerry's
rivals say race still open, but voters say otherwise."
... "The three major candidates hoping to outlast one another and take
on John Kerry, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination,
argued Sunday that it's too early to end the race. But in contests across
the country, Democrats are indicating they disagree." ... "Saturday and
Sunday, Kerry won caucuses in Washington state, Michigan and Maine for
a season record of 10 wins, two losses." -By Jill
Lawrence -USATODAY
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- "U.S.
identifies four Marines killed in helicopter crash:
Maj. Jay Thomas Aubin [36, Waterville, Maine], Capt. Ryan Anthony Beaupre
[30, was from Bloomington, Illinois], Cpl. Brian Matthew Kennedy [25, Houston,
Texas] and Staff Sgt. Kendall Damon Watersbey [29, Baltimore, Maryland]
were the four Marine crew members killed aboard the U.S. CH-46 Sea Knight
helicopter that crashed early Friday in Kuwait, according to a statement
from the Department of Defense." ... "The eight British military personnel
aboard also were killed in the crash, which occurred as the helicopter
was flying through heavy wind and a sandstorm" ... "Watersbey's father
angrily blamed President Bush for his son's death." ... ""George Bush,
take a good look at this man, cause you took my only son away from me,"
Michael Watersbey said, holding up a picture of his son."
-CNN
