If they can keep them:
"Maine research firm looks to Florida to house lab" by Clarke Canfield, Associated Press | April 11, 2010
PORTLAND, Maine — The state’s largest biomedical research institution is planning to open its first out-of-state research branch if it wins enough public funding in Florida.
You know what you are going to have to do to keep 'em, right, Maine taxpayer$?
The Jackson Laboratory, which is based in Bar Harbor and specializes in mouse genetics, has been in talks about building a 145,000-square-foot research center in southwest Florida where scientists would apply genetic research toward human health problems. Jackson Lab trustees could decide by the end of summer whether to proceed if the Florida Legislature and the county government agree to spend more than $200 million....
If plans fall into place, the institute would employ about 200 people during its first five years and grow to as many as 300 employees over 10 years. In time, it could act as a magnet and draw a medical school, a teaching hospital, and biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies with 7,000 to 8,000 employees. Some people are asking why the facility can’t be in Maine.
GREAT QUESTION!
Florida was chosen because of the availability of public funding, the state’s commitment to growing its biomedical community, and the proximity of other nonprofit research institutes, Mike Hyde, Jackson’s vice president for advancement said.
Translation: They offered to THROW the MOST TAX MONEY at them!
The governor’s office said Maine can’t match the financial incentives offered by Florida.
F*** 'em!
Let the traitorous, self-serving sleaze slink down there then.
What do they have for health care up there anyway?
"Court backs Maine in insurance rate fight" by Glenn Adams, Associated Press | April 23, 2010
AUGUSTA, Maine — The Maine Superior Court has affirmed a decision by state regulators to cut the increase in
Superior Court Chief Justice Thomas Humphrey said in a ruling Wednesday that Maine law does not “expressly entitle insurers to a mandated profit margin.’’
Anthem had contended that the 10.9 percent increase allowed by Maine’s insurance superintendent was not enough to be profitable....
Not healthy enough?
Attorney General Janet Mills said Anthem “cannot impose high rate increases on the backs of individual policyholders to maximize its corporate profits.’’
“In the past three years alone, Anthem turned over $200 million in dividends to its parent company
Greed.
So who gets to run the place next?
"Richardson quits Maine governor’s race" by Glenn Adams, Associated Press | April 27, 2010
AUGUSTA, Maine — John Richardson said yesterday he is dropping out of the race for governor, acknowledging that he failed to qualify for public campaign funding because of irregularities in the way his campaign workers sought donations....
Not him.
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Related: Around New England: Cleaning Up in Maine
I $till $mell a $tink.
Also see: Race to lead Maine gets crowded
AUGUSTA, Maine — Most of Maine’s Republican gubernatorial candidates are tepid to cool on a party platform pushed through by activists in the Tea Party movement, but none responding to Associated Press queries rejected the statement of party principles outright.
The platform adopted at last weekend’s Maine Republican Convention showcased the influence of conservatives and activists within the Tea Party movement. Among other things, it stresses a need for state sovereignty, 12-year congressional term limits, limiting marriage to one man and one woman, and the sanctity of life, including the unborn.
It seeks the elimination of the Department of Education and the Federal Reserve and refers to global warming as a “myth.’’ It also calls for spending cuts and a balanced budget, freezing stimulus funds, and says health care “is not a right. It is a service.’’
Yeah, you would not want to warm up to things like that (or the unmentioned ending of imperialistic wars).
GOP candidates, who were asked whether they support the platform, generally chose to point to their own priorities instead....
Translation: they are all politicians.
Outside Maine, the Tea Party movement has had an influence on major political races.
In Florida, Governor Charlie Crist quit the GOP so he can run for the Senate as an independent after polls indicated he was trailing Tea Party-friendly Marco Rubio in the race for the Republican nomination. In Kentucky the Tea Party movement is a driving force behind the Senate candidacy of Rand Paul, the son of libertarian presidential candidate Ron Paul.
Oh, my, I can't believe his name made the paper.
In Utah Tea Party activists toppled Robert F. Bennett, a three-term GOP senator....
Yes, it is an INCUMBENT OUT kind of MOOD!!!!
So WHAT ELSE is going on in Maine this past month or so, readers?
"Portland, Maine, meeting with Japanese delegation
Maine's largest city is marking the 25th anniversary of its relationship with a sister city in Japan. The city of Portland is welcoming a delegation on Saturday from Shinagawa, including the mayor and chairman of the city's assembly. For the next week, the delegation is touring the greater Portland area and take a ferry to Peaks Island. The cities were brought together in 1984 by the work of Edward Sylvester Morse, a zoologist and Portland native who is credited with bringing the study of archaeology and anthropology to Japan in the 1870s. Morse artifacts have been shown at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Peabody Museum in Salem, Mass. The two cities have exchanged delegations through the years.
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Better than Boston's sister city.
"A BURNING SUCCESS -- Rangers with Maine's Forest Service intentionally set fires along railroad tracks this week in Bangor, to prevent a passing train from igniting anything by accident. More dry weather is expected today (Boston Globe April 15 2010)."
Good time to go camping.
"Maine boy treated at Boston burn center
Maybe not.
A Maine boy who threw gasoline on a campfire in the town of Jefferson is being treated at a Boston burn center. Fire Chief Walter Morris says the boy was airlifted to Massachusetts General Hospital after suffering first- and second-degree burns on his chest, back, face and hands. Morris tells WCSH-TV that the 10-year-old victim found a can of gasoline and tossed some of it on the campfire while no one was looking.
Stoo-pid kids!
He says he's encouraged that the boy was screaming and crying when firefighters arrived. He says that means his lungs weren't damaged by the hot gases.
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"Canadian wins canoe race
Trevor Maclean of Halifax, Nova Scotia, won the 44th annual Kenduskeag Stream Canoe Race in Maine. Maclean started a minute behind 11-time champion Robert Lang, but passed Lang when he hit a rock and rolled his kayak about 4 miles into the race. Lang later hit another rock, allowing Maclean to lengthen his lead. Maclean finished the 16 1/2-mile race in 2 hours, 19 minutes and 5 seconds. In all, 889 paddlers in 479 canoes and kayaks entered the race, which was run under low water conditions and cloudy skies (AP)."
Be careful, readers.
Just downriver:
One man died and another was injured after their canoe capsized off Provincetown yesterday, possibly after dolphins or a breaching whale knocked the boat over, according to authorities.
The two men were off Long Point at the outside of Provincetown harbor just before 11 a.m. when their boat capsized. A spokeswoman for the US Coast Guard said the agency received word that a breaching whale may have caused the canoe to overturn. The Cape Cod Times reported that at least one pilot whale had surfaced and made contact with the canoe. Pilot whales are known to approach boats on occasion. Males of the species can grow to 20 feet in length.
Related: There Be Whales Here!
But Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O’Keefe and a local Provincetown official both said that dolphins, not whales, were in the vicinity of the canoe around the time of the accident. The chairwoman of Provincetown’s Board of Selectmen, Michele Couture, said Assistant Harbormaster Luis Ribas, who participated in the rescue, told her dolphins were swimming near the canoe....
Provincetown Police Chief Jeff Jaran told the Cape Cod Times that one of the boaters, a 47-year-old local man, died of his injuries and that a second man, William Vannoy, was treated at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis. The identity of the dead man was being withheld pending family notification. Jaran could not be reached last night. A hospital spokeswoman said Vannoy was treated and released.
Vannoy told authorities the two men had purchased liquor earlier in the day, O’Keefe said, adding that it was unclear if alcohol played a role in the accident. He said the state medical examiner will perform an autopsy on the victim, possibly today.
It could not have helped.
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Related: Woman, two children rescued from Taunton River
Better get back on land:"1 dead, 2 hurt after hitting moose on I-295
Police say a 50-year-old man was killed when the car in which he was a passenger struck a moose on Interstate 295 in Topsham. Maine State Police said Jose Jarez of Scarborough died Saturday night after the car driven by his brother, Jorge Jarez, struck the animal on the highway. Jorge Jarez suffered minor injuries. Moments after the collision, a car driven by 22-year-old Meghan Glancy of Woolwich also struck the moose, overturned, and skidded on its roof. Police say Glancy suffered back and neck injuries and was taken by helicopter to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston (AP)."
"Teen injured when bull escapes farm pen
A 17-year-old Maine youth is recovering from injuries sustained when he was attacked by a bull that had escaped a farm pen in the town of Durham.
You should not have been teasing him.
Officials say the teenager, whose name was not released, suffered a serious puncture wound to the back and other bumps and bruises. The injuries are not considered life-threatening. Durham Fire Captain Michael Lacasse said the bull was out of control and charged at people trying to get it back in its pen.
NO ONE likes IMPRISONMENT!
WGME-TV said family members and neighbors tried to corral the animal but were unsuccessful. The bull was put down with a rifle (AP)."
That's the answer to everything in AmeriKa: KILL IT!
"Suspect named in topless coffee shop fire
Maine fire investigators say a former boyfriend of a waitress at a topless coffee shop is being charged with arson for last year’s fire that destroyed the shop and some adjoining apartments in the small town of Vassalboro.
Couldn't you have killed yourself instead, shit bag?
Officials say an arrest warrant has been issued for 49-year-old Raymond Bellavance of Augusta in connection with the June fire at the Grand View Topless Coffee Shop. Police say they are searching for Bellavance. The fire was set hours after club owner Donald Crabtree met with town officials and told them of plans to make the business more like a strip club (AP)."
All over a woman?
"Women subdue man accused of Maine campus stabbing" by Associated Press | May 6, 2010
BANGOR — Five female students, including one who had recently completed a self-defense class, jumped to the aid of a fellow student, grabbing her knife-wielding attacker and holding him until police officers arrived at Husson University, officials said yesterday....
:-)
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Any more heroines out there?
"Girl, 11, halts car after father is overcome
They are not all good girls up there:
"Maine family sues over high school honor code" by David Sharp, Associated Press Writer | April 9, 2010
PORTLAND, Maine --The parents of a Yarmouth High School student are challenging the constitutionality of the school's honor code for extracurricular activities after their daughter was suspended from her lacrosse team because of a photo that shows her holding what school administrators contend is a beer....
Related: Friday Night Festivities
Spending the Night in North Andover
Best to sleep it off, kids.
Michael Waxman, the family's lawyer, said the honor code allows the school to monitor and discipline students 24-7 regardless of whether they're attending school-sanctioned events....
Related: Around AmeriKa: The Homework Has Eyes
Make sure you sig heil before falling asleep, kids.
Melissa Hewey, lawyer for Yarmouth schools, said the lawsuit in Maine raises no new legal arguments, and she said similar state and federal lawsuits have been rejected elsewhere....
Laws never stopped the authorities before.
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Also see: Maine man denies stealing Nobel PrizePreacher, wife held in child custody case
Maine college student planning Portland gun rally
My paper reported the rally in a brief on April 21; however, that was nowhere to be found on the Globe website.
