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USM grows scholarship program for disadvantaged and first-generation students A Scarborough couples effort to help a handful of Portland-area students pay for college has grown to an endowed scholarship fund that aims to help 100 Maine students at a time graduate debt-free. Share Elizabeth Muana, originally from South Sudan, came with her mother and two sisters to the U.S. She is a freshman at the University of Southern Maine and a Promise Scholarship recipient. Derek Davis/Staff Photographe...

The USM Promise Scholarship program gives financial, academic and social support to students facing serious financial disadvantages. Author: Beth McEvoy (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 1:06 PM EST January 22, 2021 Updated: 1:06 PM EST January 22, 2021 PORTLAND, Maine — Anyone who has gone to college or sent a child there knows how incredibly expensive it can be; debt accrued can sometimes take decades to pay off. But for students who cant even ge...

With rumors circulating that Jodie Whittaker may depart the lead role at the end of her third season, it seems right to reflect upon her time in the TARDIS. In particular, one of the most revealing and interesting aspects of that time: the persistent criticism that the show’s recent seasons have been “too woke” or “too politically correct.” It’s interesting to think about what those phrases mean, particularly in the context of the most conservative stretch of Doctor Who in over thr...

Alone. but he had to put these proposals together in a way that would bring some consensus around them in terms of what could be done. he had to get community of people thats being newly effective on this? >> absolutely, rachel. there are a lot of really good organizations out there that im learning from that im working with that are smart and effective. there are different roads we can take in this space and i think weve all been instrumental on having these conversations with our elected offic...

Newtown. first graders. and from every family who never imagined that their loved one would be taken from our lives by a bullet from a gun. every time i think about those kids, it gets me mad. >> president obama in the east room today announcing new executive actions on gun safety and doing so with some uncharacteristic display of presidential emotion. joining us now for the interview is mark barton, who is a member of sandy hook promise who is the father of 7-year-old daniel

Bill but senate republicans blocked it. and moments later, literally minutes later, minutes after that vote or that nonvote, president obama was introduced in the rose garden by the father of one of the little boys who had been killed at sandy hook. daniel bardens father introduced president obama that day. mark barton. >> we will not be defeated. we are not defeated and we will not be defeated. we are here now, we will always be here because we have no other choice. we are not going away. and e...

Barton who was killed at newtown. mark, its nice to see you again. thank you for being here. how did it feel to be back in washington today introducing the president again for ultimately what was a very different occasion? >> thats exactly right. and the honor is the same. the honor is incredible. but to be there to share in this moment of great progress was overwhelming. >> you say great progress. theres been a lot of talk today about whats possible without congress, about what the president ca...

>> this effort is not over. that was president obama in the rose garden, spring, 2013. today, more than two years later, mark barton, again introduced president obama in washington, but this time he was there to talk about something that was getting done, not thing is that congress was blocking but something that the president was able to do himself even if congress wont act. >> in april of 2013, i had the honor of introducing president obama in the rose garden. and unfortunately, that was to an...

He was joined by the father of daniel barton who died at sandy hook. >> as a nation we have to do better. we are better. we are better than this. >> this is not a community that people want to belong to. just leave it at that. you dont want to be invited into that club. >> the new executive action stopped short of mandating uniform background checks across the country. the president blamed nra and the republicans in congress for that. >> the gun lobby may be holding congress hostage right now, b...

That his mother, nancy, had grown increasingly frustrated with her sons isolation, trying and failing to get him to leave the room and interact with others, perhaps go to school or get a job. he was uncomfortable, unreachable and like a ghost, a friend says and nancy reached tout out to a psychiatrist for help. another report says, nancy had planned to have adam committed to a psychiatric institution and the boy found out about it and thats what set him off, the reason apparently that he killed ...