Maine’s senior senator is pushing for more local aid, more help for small businesses and more money for schools.
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Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
White House signals openness to unemployment compromise as crucial deadline looms for 30 million Americans
In less than two weeks, the federal program that provides a $600-per-week increase to unemployment benefits will expire.
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Posted inLakes Region Weekly
Program brings business COVID-19 compliance, enforcement to local level
The business training and public education program is funded by the state.
Posted inAmerican Journal, Lakes Region Weekly, Portland Forecaster
Fans have a (golf) ball at Hadlock Field
Inviting golfers to drive balls into painted targets in the outfield is one of the ways Sea Dogs staff is offering up Hadlock Field to fans in a different, but fun way during the coronavirus pandemic.
Posted inHealth, Nation & World
Discoveries from decades-long HIV research now repurposed in race for coronavirus vaccine
Decades of research into HIV have taught scientists about the immune system, honed vaccine technologies now repurposed against the coronavirus and created a worldwide infrastructure of clinical trial networks.
Posted inNation & World
Pence tells governors to protect citizens however they can
The vice president dropped previous talking points meant to argue that the pandemic’s threat was overstated.
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Maine CDC reports 8 new COVID-19 cases, announces 18 ‘swab and send’ testing sites
The state continues to avoid a spike in new cases that has been cause for alarm elsewhere as it expands testing availability even further.
Posted inNation & World
The Latest: Florida continues to surpass coronavirus records
The latest on the coronavirus pandemic from around the U.S. and the world. FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida — Florida surpassed its daily record for coronavirus deaths Tuesday amid rising global worries of a resurgence, even as researchers announced that the first vaccine tested in the U.S. had worked to boost patients’ immune systems. Florida’s 132 additional […]
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White House turns on Fauci as Trump minimizes virus spike, cites ex-game show host
The administration is working to undercut its most trusted coronavirus expert as the president continues to play down the threat posed by the virus and pushes to reopen the economy before the election.
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Preble Street closes soup kitchen dining room
Meals will still be prepared at the social service agency in downtown Portland, but they will be delivered to shelters and other sites around the city.