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The Portland Daily Press was founded in June 1862 by J. T. Gilman, Joseph B. Hall, and Newell A. Foster as a new Republican paper. [3] Its first issue, published on June 23, 1862, announced strong support for Abraham Lincoln and condemned slavery as "the foulest blot upon our national character."
Eric Brakey (born August 8, 1988) is an American politician and the Executive Director of the Free State Project. [1] [2] [3] A libertarian member of the Republican Party, he served as a Maine state senator from 2014 to 2018, and again from 2022 to 2024.
Aug. 18—A Maine nonprofit that set a goal of acquiring and preserving the state's largest network of newspapers plans to dissolve following the papers' recent purchase by the National Trust for ...
In a paid advertisement published by the Portland Press Herald, a group of more than 100 rabbis and representatives of Jewish organizations blasted the Portland City Council’s unanimous Sept. 4 ...
In February 2011, a series of public employee protests began in the United States against proposed legislation which would weaken the power of labor unions.By March, eighteen states had proposed legislation which would remove some collective bargaining powers from unions, along with another five states which proposed legislation which would negatively affect unions. [1]
"Most Local School Districts Ignore State's Anti-Gay Bullying Law" by Phillip Zonkel, Press-Telegram "Turned Away, He Turned to the Bible" by Douglas Quenqua, The New York Times; Outstanding Newspaper Columnist Frank Bruni, The New York Times. Bill Nemitz, Portland Press Herald; Leonard Pitts, The Miami Herald; Eugene Robinson, The Washington Post
The Maine Switch – Portland, published once a week on Thursdays; The Mid-Coast Forecaster – published weekly alongside The Northern Forecaster, The Portland Forecaster and The Southern Forecaster; Midcoast Villager – formed by the merger of the Courier Gazette, Camden Herald, Free Press, Republican-Journal, and villagesoup.com.
Dec. 27—A downtown Portland hotel in the former headquarters of the Portland Press Herald has been sold. Fathom Cos., a Portland property development and hotel management company, said Monday ...