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Pine Tree Legal Assistance (PTLA) is a nonprofit agency that specializes in providing free civil legal services for the poor in Maine, United States. Based in Portland, Maine but operating statewide, PTLA opened in 1967. [1] It was led by Nan Heald from 1990 to 2022. [2]
The history of Mardi Gras in the United States started with Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville's defense of the Louisiane territory (modern-day Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and parts Texas.) He and his men settled a camp around 60 miles away from present-day New Orleans on Mardi Gras in 1699. [6]
More on Mardi Gras. In 1992 Dorothy Mae Taylor authored an ordinance insisting that all Mardi Gras krewes stop discriminating and institute an open admission policy for anyone seeking to join their organizations, if they chose to use city services to hold their parades. The reaction to this ordinance was swift and downright vicious. Old-line ...
Nov. 28—State officials and a civil rights group say they have hashed out a new plan to work on long-term reform of Maine's system for providing attorneys to poor defendants without compromising ...
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Carnival celebrations — parties, fancy masked balls and other markers of the season — may start on Jan. 6, but the big buildup to Mardi Gras happens in New Orleans in the final 12 days of the ...
Mardi Gras in Baton Rouge, 2006. Baton Rouge hosts eight parades, including the Spanish Town Parade, Krewe of Southdowns, Krewe of Mutts (dog parade), Krewe Mystique, and Parades such as the Krewe of Orion, Krewe of Artemis, Krewe of Jupiter, and Krewe of Poseidon(new for 2010) which offer more of a traditional New Orleans-style parade. All ...
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