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Others seeking reelection on June 13 are school board representatives Timothy Akers and Karen Thurston, each for three-year terms.

The school board retains one incumbent, adds a newcomer.

The school board retains one incumbent, adds a newcomer.

increase font size Read Article On April 15 testimony was heard before the Taxation Committee in support of L.D. 428, an Act to Prevent Tax Haven Abuse. This act would hold corporations accountable to pay taxes on all the profits from income generated in Maine. The corporations have used these havens to help them avoid paying their fair share of taxes.  That is unfair and needs to be changed. I owned a small business for 35 years, and every year I paid taxes on the profit my business made. Wh...

Read Article A recent letter to the editor — “Support for Electoral College“, Robert Casimiro, Jan 29 — left out some important facts. We can all have opinions, but facts matter, and in his letter he does an injustice to the truth when he states there was no mention of slavery concerning the compromise that the Electoral College reached in 1787. A major factor of this deal was the three-fifths compromise, which was based on slavery. It counted three-fifths of each state’s slave popul...