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  • Anthem releases details of new Maine insurance plan

    By JESSICA HALL and JOE LAWLOR Staff Writers Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield on Tuesday filed a list of doctors and hospitals that would be part of the health insurance plan it is proposing to be available in the state of Maine under the federal Affordable Care ...

  • AP PHOTOS Astrodome JFK terminal endangered

    WASHINGTON -- Houston's Astrodome stadium, New York's old Pan Am Worldport Terminal at Kennedy Airport and Montana's one-room schoolhouses are joining a list of the nation's most endangered historic places.On Wednesday, the National Trust for Historic Preservation is releasing its listing of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. It includes sites from Maine to ...

  • Early black church in Maine named as endangered

    PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - The Abyssinian Meeting House is the nation’s third-oldest standing African-American meeting house, used for religious, social, educational and cultural events until its closing in ...

  • Prospective astronaut from Maine always on a mission

    Jessica Meir, a 35-year-old scientist from Maine, is among eight people who were selected from a pool of more than 6,000 applicants to be trained as astronauts. Meir, who grew up in Caribou, is the youngest of five in a family of ...

  • Home sales on rise in Maine

    HLFSCRN HOUSING MARKET TURNAROUND? MORE SIGNS OF RECOVERY FOR BUYERS, BUILDERS, AND SELLERS, AS HOME SALES HIT A MAJOR MILESTONE THIS MONTH, SHOWING A POSSIBLE ECONOMIC REBOUND FOR A ONCE STRUGGLING MARKET.. GOOD EVENING AND THANKS FOR JOINING US, I'M TRACY SABOL. THE COMMERCE DEPARTMENT SAYS BUILDERS BEGAN CONSTRUCTION ON MORE SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES AND APARTMENTS IN MAY. IN FACT.. HOUSING ...


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The Artist [Blu-Ray]

The Artist [Blu-Ray]

Michel Hazanaviciuss The Artist grew on me. I resisted the self-conscious cleverness of its retro-silent-film conceit for quite a while; it felt too mannered and deliberate, the clear product of a modern mind trying to evoke a bygone era without fully getting lost in it. In a word, it w ... ...

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  • Hospitals Maine Medicaid expansion would help

    By JOE LAWLOR Staff Writer The cost of free care provided by Maine hospitals to uninsured patients has more than doubled since 2007, and those expenses will continue to grow ...

  • Maine lawmaker unanimously endorse no toxic chemicals in childrens toys

    – Maine lawmakers on Tuesday quietly and unanimously advanced a bill aimed at beefing up the state program designed to phase out toxic chemicals in children’s products, but final passage is still in question. The proposal, L.D. 1181, sponsored by Sen. Seth Goodall, D-Richmond, requires manufacturers of 49 chemicals on the so-called "high concern list" to report what ...

  • Attempt to strengthen Maine mining laws likely fails

    – A bill designed to tighten mining laws that took effect last year appears headed for defeat, with the House and Senate unable to reach consensus on the ...

  • Maine Gov. Paul LePage hands out 5 more vetoes

    Among the bills is one that would have required the state’s public charter schools to be run as nonprofit organizations. LePage said that the bill puts new constraints on charter schools, limiting students’ educational ...

  • Democrats grading plan for Maine schools gets initial Senate approval

    , sponsored by Sen. Rebecca Millett, D-Cape Elizabeth, the Senate chairwoman of the Legislature’s Education Committee, would hold up action related to the existing grading system and wait until the 2014-2015 school year to implement a new one. It passed the ...

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