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LANCE TAPLEY

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Playing to win

Baldacci is starving his opponents before crushing them
John Baldacci appears to be on track for re-election November 7, in spite of himself.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  October 04, 2006

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Visit Maine

Tourism promotion’s cozy—and now hot—world
This past spring, blogger and free-lance Web site designer Lance Dutson was sued by the Maine Office of Tourism’s New York advertising agency, Warren Kremer Paino, for defamation because of the manner in which he criticized the agency’s promotion of Maine, particularly in its advertising on the Internet.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  September 22, 2006

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Funny numbers

It’s not Maine, it’s the ads about Maine that bring tourists here
Maine spends more than two million dollars a year advertising our scenery to out-of-staters. Visit Maine: Tourism promotion’s cozy—and now hot—world. By Lance Tapley
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  September 20, 2006

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E-ZPass on ethics

Turnpike executives cruise past the state’s ethics rules
On June 20, the Maine Turnpike Authority’s five top executives and four of their consultants had one of their “management dinners,” which the authority has held every month or so for eight years.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  August 03, 2006

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Arbitrary imprisonment

In a mysterious Guantánamo-like move, the state refuses to follow a judge’s order committing a mentally ill prisoner to Riverview
Joseph Steinberger thought he had won one of the most important trials of his legal career.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  July 19, 2006

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The Left is reorganizing

Progressives take a page from the Right
This spring, after a vicious internecine battle, two of the state’s most successful liberal political-action groups collapsed: the Maine Citizen Leadership Fund (MCLF) and the closely allied Dirigo Alliance.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  July 12, 2006

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It’s global class war

And Maine is on the front line
Written by a former Mainer, The Global Class War barely mentions Maine, but it explains what is happening economically in our state — as well as in the world.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  July 06, 2006

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A wild, wild, wide-open race

What you won’t learn from the rest of the media about Maine’s upcoming elections
Here are five Big Things about the recent primary election that were missed or underemphasized by the “straight” press.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  June 21, 2006

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Battle of losers

Dems in primary seek Senate, governorship
The Democratic US Senate primary is a struggle between two minor political-candidate types: the Left-wing Perennial, Jean Hay Bright, and the Mysterious Stranger, Eric Mehnert.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  June 07, 2006

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Bailout

Big biomass boiler bust
One of the keys to the salvation of the 400-plus jobs at the Old Town Georgia-Pacific paper mill was supposed to be the installation of a new biomass boiler to generate the mill’s electricity and lower its costs.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  May 25, 2006

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Handicapping the GOP

Who wins in a Republican primary?
Because Governor Baldacci’s poll numbers have been in the depths for over a year, three substantial Republicans are competing to take him on. Here’s the tip sheet for the June 13 GOP primary.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  May 17, 2006

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Toxinland

Welcome to Maine, the way toxic waste emissions should be
I tried to find the answers to two questions: why did the Legislature pass LD 141, and why did Hillary Lister chain herself to the railing of the House gallery on April 11?
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  May 10, 2006

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Dirigo at the crossroads

Will Anthem get to have its cake and eat it too? Will Dirigo survive?
Joe Ditre, head of Consumers for Affordable Health Care in Augusta, is upset.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  April 19, 2006

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Second shutdown

The politics of the Georgia-Pacific decision
Some answers for John Baldacci's unpopularity may be discerned in an event that took place in Old Town March 16 — an event that could have sealed the Maine governor's fate.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  March 29, 2006

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Pressure rising

Supermax torture revisited
Four months ago, a Phoenix investigative series revealed abuses of inmates at the “Supermax,” a 100-bed, solitary-confinement, maximum-security facility inside the Maine State Prison in Warren; since our articles were published, several important developments have taken place.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  March 23, 2006

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Giving up

What’s the matter with Maine   progressives?
Lobbyists in the Maine State House outnumber legislators and do everything from write laws to raise political-campaign funds, so regulating lobbyists has long been a progressive priority.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  March 02, 2006

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Burning money

State gives extra millions to oil dealers, leaving the poor and elderly out in the cold
You’d think, with nearly $30 million to spend on heating oil for poor people this winter, the Maine State Housing Authority would have bargained a pretty good price with the oil dealers, right? Wrong.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  February 16, 2006

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Maine-ufacturing consent

Noam Chomsky himself is filtered by the news
Typical of the exposure given 77-year-old MIT linguistics professor and philosopher Noam Chomsky by most American news media, he was blanked out by the Portland Press Herald , and there was no coverage by the Portland TV news shows or Maine Public Radio.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  February 02, 2006

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Baldacci's re-election plan

Means higher taxes, or rent, for Portland
During the Legislature’s opening day this month, I was eager to know what would be the Big Thing of the session. In a gubernatorial election year, I figured it would have a strong political coloration. “The big thing is the repeal of the business equipment tax,” a state rep told me. “It’s Baldacci’s big thing. It’s an election year, and we’ve all got to get behind him on this.”
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  January 18, 2006

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Sticking it to political reformers

Power play gives State House Democrats control of 'nonpartisan' activist group
State House Dems don't get mad, they get even.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  January 12, 2006
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