A statewide group is launching a campaign to increase community involvement in all Maine schools.
Kelley Bouchard
Staff Writer
Kelley writes about some of the most critical aspects of Maine’s economy and future growth, including transportation, immigration, retail and small business, commercial development and tourism, with emphasis on consumer issues, sustainability and minority ownership. Her wider experience includes municipal and state government, education, history, human rights, health and elder care, the environment and the housing crisis. A Maine native and University of Maine graduate, she was a college intern for two summers at the former Lewiston Evening Journal. She previously worked at the Ipswich Chronicle, Beverly Times and Salem Evening News in Massachusetts. Favorite pastimes include gardening, cooking for family and friends, streaming foreign TV series and kayaking at camp.
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Maine students prepareto experience a financial future
Unlike many of his peers at Portland High School, Matt McInnis knows something about personal finance.
He’s had a savings account since he was 4 years old and he works part time at Maine Red Claws basketball games. Now a senior, he’s saving money to study criminal justice at Husson University in Bangor.
Still, as McInnis enters adulthood, he concedes that the broader financial landscape looks increasingly complicated, despite the efficiency of online banking and other benefits of modern technology.
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Panel: Revise expulsion procedures
All districts should give expelled students a re-entry plan, a study group says
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SMCC gets $1.9M federal grant for student success
New programs will target students in the formative first semester of college.
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Voters cite many reasons at the ballot box
The mood among Maine voters ran from resignation to outrage as they went to the polls.
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Campaign Diary: ‘Gloves are off’ for Libby Mitchell as campaign nears end
‘I didn’t cause the recession,’ she tells a radio host on a day of interviews and visits to get-out-the-vote centers.
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Former Gov. King endorses Pingree for Congress
King said Pingree was tough but fair when they worked together in Augusta and Mainers should “send her back” to Washington.
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Campaign Diary: Mitchell’s family close at hand as her campaign winds down
Libby Mitchell’s husband, children and grandchildren were with her as usual Sunday, when former President Bill Clinton rallied the crowd at the Lewiston Armory. Later, Mitchell was scheduled to visit supporters at get-out-the-vote operations in Lewiston, Bath and Brunswick. Then she planned to attend a children’s Halloween parade and accompany her grandchildren when they went […]
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Clinton: Give Democrats time
Former President Bill Clinton described the national political climate as a “fact-free feast” Sunday and urged Maine voters to give Democrats more time to fix the economic problems that arose during the Bush administration.
Clinton was back in Maine for the second time in a little over a month, campaigning for longtime friend and gubernatorial candidate Libby Mitchell and other Democrats on Tuesday’s ballot.
About 800 people gathered to hear Clinton give a rousing speech just before noon at the Lewiston Armory, where he praised Mitchell’s efforts to improve education, reform health care, promote alternative energy, protect the environment, reduce taxes and create jobs.
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Clinton stumps in Maine for Mitchell and other Dems
It’s the second time in a little over a month that former President Bill Clinton has come to Maine to campaign for Mitchell.