July 2007 - Posts - About Town

July 30, 2007

Portland Budget Collapse Claims First Casualty
By webteam
Amid cries for blood, the red-ink-stained Portland School Department announced today that the schools' finance director, Richard Paulson Jr., resigned today.

It's unclear just what kind of "finance directing" he was doing while the school department spent $500,000 they were not allotted by the City Council, plus an extra $1.

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July 30, 2007

Summers Plays the Bush Card (No, Not That One)
By webteam
Republican Charlie Summers, a hopeful in the 1st Congressional District race for the seat being vacated by Tom Allen (who's challenging Susan Collins for her seat), has announced that President Bush has made a donation to the Summers campaign. But not the one you're thinking of, the one who has approval ratings below Richard Nixon.

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Bush League

July 13, 2007

Trafficking in fear - Channel 6's "driver's license" expose (updated)
By webteam
(SEE UPDATE AT THE END OF THIS POST)

On July 12, Channel 6 aired a "special report" observing that illegal immigrants can come to Maine and get driver's licenses, and including allegations from US Attorney Paula Silsby that illegal immigrants have come to Maine, gotten a driver's license, used the license to prove residency required under federal law for purchasing a gun, and then used the gun to commit a crime.

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Media, WCSH-6

July 10, 2007

Press Herald prints poison?!
By webteam
A correction from the Portland Press Herald from Friday's paper:

A story on Page B4 on Wednesday about foraging for edible mushrooms contained a photo of amanita muscaria, which is a poisonous and hallucinogenic mushroom. It was a copy editor's error.

Here's the story. The correction appears not to have run online - though it is in the paper's online archive - but is not attached in any way to the online version of the story.

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Media, Portland Press Herald

July 09, 2007

Press Herald is Corrections' apologist
By webteam
The Portland Press Herald has taken its political criticism to a new low:

Not only did a Friday editoral fail to note that the Corrections policy of moving inmates from prison to a jail is in violation of a federal court order rediscovered by the Portland Phoenix and reported on in the June 29 issue, but Sunday's column by obscurer-in-chief Bill Nemitz makes no note of the fact that the Maine Department of Corrections has been failing to treat mentally ill inmates for their medical conditions for more than 18 months.

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Media, Portland Press Herald, Prisons

July 05, 2007

Blood on their hands? Maine prison released Conway murderer
By webteam
According to this Associated Press report, the man who shot three people dead in Conway, New Hampshire, during a botched robbery attempt, was released from the Maine State Prison in May, after serving five years, during which he was denied both medication and psychiatric help.

The story says, in part:
"I reached out, asking for help.

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Prisons

July 02, 2007

Release the hounds - or at least the liars
By webteam
President Bush has officially commuted the prison term of convicted liar Scooter Libby, meaning the Bush-Cheney henchman will not have to spend 30 months in a federal prison getting to better know the inmates.

MSNBC has a transcript of Bush's accompanying statement, explaining how Bush, an admittedly C student in college, has weighed evidence and come up differently from several federal judges.

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July 02, 2007

New England doesn't like Hooters
By webteam
So says a professor from Boston, in a Marketplace story about how a bunch of Hooters restaurants have closed in "the home of the Puritans."

See also: The Stadium.

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July 02, 2007

Bush stuck in the mud
By webteam
Bet you won't see this reported anywhere in the US mainstream media. There's always Canada... See what happened when Bush and his dad went fishing.

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