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Libyan
Coaxed by ‘A Secret Admirer,’
regime
the governor orders the removal
of artwork depicting the state’s
defying
labor history – and finds himself
again at the center of controversy.
By SUSAN M. COVER
attacks
MaineToday Media State House Writer Despite allied airstrikes,
AUGUSTA — Labor leaders and Gadhafi intensifies his
the state’s biggest Latino group ex- efforts – moving troops
pressed outrage Wednesday at Gov.
Paul LePage’s decision to remove a and targeting opponents.
mural depicting workers from the
By DAVID S. CLOUD
Department of Labor’s headquar- and BORZOU DARAGAHI
ters and rename conference rooms McClatchy Newspapers
in the building. TRIPOLI, Libya — Col. Moam-
Matt Schlobohm, executive direc- mar Gadhafi’s forces intensified
tor of the Maine AFL-CIO, called Gov. Paul LePage attacks in opposition-held cities,
the decision “insulting to working creating panic in the town of
people, petty and shortsighted.”
“It seems the governor is much
MORE INSIDE Misrata, even as U.S. and al-
lied warplanes broadened their
more interested in picking fights BILL NEMITZ airstrikes across Libya, U.S.
with labor than creating jobs that WRITES: Mural military officers and eyewit-
people so desperately want,” he mandate from the nesses said.
said. “We believe their story de- governor is truly Despite the increasing pres-
serves to be told on the walls of the a piece of work. ence of allied aircraft overhead,
Department of Labor.” PAGE B1 Gadhafi has rushed to put down
The 36-foot-long, 11-panel mural MORE FROM THE the remaining pockets of the
depicts the state’s labor history, STATE HOUSE: rebellion that has threatened
including a shoe worker strike in Maine Heritage his rule.
Lewiston, female shipbuilders and Policy Center In the rebel-held town of
striking papermakers in Jay. and other groups Misrata, government forces re-
It also highlights dangerous work- organize rally sumed their assault Wednesday
ing conditions, long work hours and in support of evening despite allied airstrikes
LePage’s budget. for the second day on the out-
Please see MURAL, Page A10 PAGE B4 skirts of the city.
Imbrogno Photography photo and detail photos courtesy of Judy Taylor Studio Witnesses there said Gadhafi’s
Maine Gov. Paul LePage has ordered the removal of a 36-foot-long mural, top, depicting the state’s labor history from the lobby of the tanks closed in on a large medi-
Department of Labor headquarters in Augusta. In addition, the LePage administration is renaming several department conference rooms that cal center used to treat the in-
carry the names of pro-labor icons, such as Cesar Chavez. Administration officials say they were responding to complaints and that the artwork jured and as a gathering point
and conference room names send a “one-sided” message when state government should be neutral. The 11-panel mural, created by artist Judy for the opposition. Rockets fired
Taylor and erected in 2008, depicts moments in Maine labor history, including a 1937 strike in the shoe mills of Auburn and Lewiston. by Libyan units have landed
Please see LIBYA, Page A9
By TOM BELL
The banquet, which in recent
an era of careful spending. years has been held at the
Wyndham Portland Airport Ho-
tel in South Portland, has cost
MaineToday Media State House Writer
a $3.7 million shortfall. The two-time Oscar-winning actress from $15,000 to $19,000. Mills
AUGUSTA — The Maine Turn- said the authority needs to re-
became well-known later in life as a pike Authority is canceling its duce spending so it operates
By LESLIE BRIDGERS
Staff Writer businesswoman and philanthropist. annual employee recognition more like government agen-
The proposed school budget in banquet, ending a 21-year tra- cies, which have had to deal
Westbrook recommends cutting By ADAM BERNSTEIN dition because of concerns that with funding cutbacks in recent
The Washington Post the agency has been too lavish years.
53 positions, including 22 full-
time teachers, and all middle Elizabeth Taylor, a voluptuous violet-eyed in its spending. “It’s not that we don’t like our
school and freshman athletic actress who lived a life of luster and anguish Peter Mills, the new interim employees. We do,” said Mills,
programs to address a $3.7 mil- and spent more than six decades as one of the executive director, decided who started at his new post last
lion budget shortfall. world’s most visible women, died Wednesday at Wednesday to cancel the ban-
The staff and program cuts age 79. quet after meeting with the au- Please see TURNPIKE, Page A10
in the budget, which was put Taylor’s life offered a mesmerizing series of
together by Superintendent sagas to rival any movie
INDEX
Reza Namin before he resigned plot – she won two Acad- Actress Elizabeth
earlier this month, will be the emy Awards, but was as Taylor as she
subject of a public hearing next well known for her eight appeared in 1958.
week before the School Com- marriages, ravaging ill-
nesses and work in AIDS philanthropy. Her life Advice D7 Local & State B1-6 Volume 149 Number 238
mittee’s Finance Committee. Business C6-8 Lottery A2
Interim Superintendent Marc had been scrupulously chronicled by the media
since her boost to fame as the enchanting 12- Classified D1 People A2
Gousse presented Namin’s Comics D6 Public Notices D5
$33.7 million budget to the Fi- year-old star of “National Velvet” (1944). Crossword D6 Sports C1-6
nance Committee three days By her mid-20s, she had been a screen god- Deaths B4-5 Stocks C6
after the school board named Dispatches B4 Sudoku D7
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ednesday marked the anni- are a lot of things that need to be im-
versary of the health care law proved upon.”
that its advocates said would Price said he saw little risk in re-
change so much. In one very real peal, saying his constituents are more
sense, they were right. The political ardent about doing away with the law
landscape one year later is radically than ever. A more recent Republican
altered, strewn with the fallen congres- line of attack has been the hundreds
sional careers of many of its support- of waivers the Obama administration
ers. has issued to businesses, unions and
The emotional debate over the bill states, exempting them from comply-
arguably gave rise to the “tea party” ing with the law at least until 2014,
movement. Republicans now control when the new state-based insurance
the House and aren’t far from seizing exchanges are supposed to begin oper-
the Senate. Potential candidates for ating. “Every waiver that occurs brings
the 2012 GOP presidential nomination life to the fact that this bill is unwork-
need only say one word, “Obamacare,” able,” Price said.
to get a rise from a crowd. And the The GOP political action group Cross-
president himself has struggled at roads GPS announced Wednesday that
times to ensure that his first term isn’t it was suing the Department of Health
defined by the legislation. and Human Services for information on
Public attitudes toward the law, how- the administration’s waiver process.
ever, have not shifted much at all. The Democrats argued Wednesday that
Affordable Care Act remains almost the GOP isn’t focused on the economy
as equally loathed and celebrated as — the same charge Republicans lev-
it was 12 months ago, despite the best eled against them when the law was
efforts of Democrats to praise it and being debated.
Republicans to bury it. Even worse “Republicans are continuing to re-
for both sides, a majority of Americans fight the political battles of the past
remain confused about what the law while the American public is ready to
actually accomplishes. move on,” said Rep. Debbie Wasser-
This week, the trench warfare has man-Schultz of Florida. She said repeal
heated up once again. Democrats point would be “catastrophic.”
to the tangible gains the legislation has Health care reform advocacy groups
already delivered, from lifting caps on such as Health Care for America Now
lifetime benefits to prohibiting discrim- are sponsoring some 200 events this
ination based on pre-existing medical week in 35 states to highlight the ben-
conditions to helping seniors pay for efits of the legislation, including one
prescription drugs, while saying even in Harrisburg, Pa., on Wednesday that
more lies ahead as the law’s provisions The Associated Press will be attended by Health and Human
go fully into effect in coming years. Health care reform arguments are intense on both sides of the issue, such as this one last year during a speech Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
Republicans continue to pin the law by President Obama, at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. The emotional debate continues though the But the White House and Democratic
to the sluggish economic recovery, overall attitude has not shifted much since the law’s passage. leaders on the Hill have been relatively
dismissing Democratic arguments quiet in their defense of the law on
that the law won’t blow up the deficit, remain in Congress have witnessed similar law while he governed Mas- against the law plays well to the GOP its one-year anniversary, leaving the
and maintaining that it has already Republicans vote to repeal the law in sachusetts. base, it risks alienating centrist voters heavy lifting to advocacy groups. The
hurt small business and lowered the the House and muster a fair share of “If courts do not do so first, as presi- who may be taking more of a wait-and- White House did release a video in
quality of health care nationwide. In votes to do so in the Senate — and the dent, I would support the immediate see approach to the act. which the president called a Michigan
the meantime, the law’s most contro- GOP says it’s committed to using the repeal of Obamacare and replace it Some in the Republican Party have college student who will be able to stay
versial aspect, its requirement that all appropriations process to gut the law. with market-based health care re- recognized that certain provisions, on his mother’s health insurance plan
Americans have health insurance, is On the putative Republican presi- forms,” Pawlenty said in a statement such as ensuring that people — es- as a result of the act.
under assault in the courts. dential campaign trail, targeting the Wednesday. pecially children — with pre-existing Republicans say they will continue to
While public opinion has stayed rela- health care law remains a favorite But according to polls, advocating a medical conditions can find health in- push the Democratic-controlled Sen-
tively static on the act, there’s no doubt sport. Repeal is an article of faith full-blown repeal also carries political surance, play well with the electorate ate on repeal efforts. Price said that
that the GOP still senses a political among tea-partiers and budget hawks. risk. According to a new survey from and have suggested that a GOP plan with 23 Democrats in that chamber up
opportunity. For much of the last year, Candidates such as Tim Pawlenty are the Kaiser Family Foundation, fewer would accomplish the same at less cost for re-election next year momentum
Democrats have sat on their heels on seeking to use the law’s persistent than 40 percent of Americans favor through the use of purchasing pools may build next year for action, he said.
the issue; most incumbents ran as far unpopularity to boost their profiles, repeal, regardless of whether the Re- and other market-based reforms. “We may get a critical mass at some
away from the as possible during the while Mitt Romney’s prospects remain publicans replace it with an alterna- GOP leaders are still working up a point and actually be able to move
congressional midterms. The ones that fogged because of his support of a tive. That suggests that while agitating replacement in the House. “We don’t something,” he said.
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WASHINGTON — Two airlin-
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Knudson said.
The Federal Aviation Admin-
will get mental evaluation
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were banned, and mobile phone another test of Europe’s ability to
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip lines were cut, according to Ammar deal with its public debt crisis.
Qurabi, chief of the National Organi- The developments occurred in
Israeli airstrikes hit tunnels, zation for Human Rights in Syria. advance of a summit today at which
training sites, Hamas says A second human rights activist
said, “the conditions are hellish”
European leaders were expected to
approve an economic program they
Hamas security says a series of in Daraa. “There are hundreds of hope will convince world markets
Israeli airstrikes have hit its training wounded and injured in the streets,” that the 17 nations that share the
facilities and smuggling tunnels he said, sobbing. euro will stand behind each other
beneath the Gaza-Egypt border. and better coordinate economic
It reported no casualties from the policies.
airstrikes early Thursday. CAIRO Instead, the European leaders will
The attacks came hours after a meet amid a new round of uncer-
bomb struck a crowded bus stop Military issues new rules tainty. Strapped for cash and mired
in central Jerusalem, killing one
woman and wounding more than
to help prepare for elections in slow economic growth, Portugal
must raise $6 billion or more next
20 other people. No group claimed Egypt’s military government has month, and it faces high interest
responsibility, but Israeli authorities handed down new constitutional rates demanded by investors who
blamed Palestinian militants. rules designed to underpin parlia- are not confident in the govern-
Israel threatened harsh retaliation mentary and presidential elections ment’s ability to pay.
for the bombing, the first in Jerusa- later this year and provide a legal After the resignation Wednesday
lem in several years. framework for the army’s continued of Prime Minister Jose Socrates, the
The bombing came against a back- rule in the meantime. country will be forced to go to the
drop of Palestinian rocket attacks The interim measures, which stand market in the middle of an election
from Gaza and Israeli reprisal raids. in for the constitution that was campaign, with no guarantee that
The recent wave of violence has suspended after President Hosni an incoming government will make
threatened to end a lengthy period Mubarak’s downfall Feb. 11, contain a the reforms likely to be demanded
of relative calm. promise of democracy in the months by European governments in return
ahead and an eventual end to the for financial help.
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Fifteen people were killed by Syr- decades to smother any challenge
ian security forces, witnesses said, to his authority.
as a bloody campaign to end politi-
cal protest continued Wednesday in
An announcement from the mili- TODAY, MAR 24th 10-8
tary council, relayed by the official
the southern city of Daraa. FRI, MAR 25th 10-8
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Middle East News Agency, said the
The deadliest day in the week-
long unrest began at 2 a.m. when
intent of the changes was to “orga-
nize authorities in the transitional SAT, MAR 26th 10-6
hundreds of government security
agents raided the al-Omari mosque
phase.” But it did not detail the pre-
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near the center of the Roman-era things, holding elections or writing a
city, the witnesses said. Protest- permanent new constitution. MAR 28
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Despite the crackdown, supporters
of the protests from the nearby vil- Portugal on brink of bailout 10am to MIDNIGHT
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lages of Inkhil, Jasim, Khirbet Ghaza-
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them, but security forces used live Portugal’s government collapsed
ammunition against them. Wednesday after the parliament
By nightfall, Daraa was sealed by rejected a budget-cutting plan,
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Even so, Hueber conceded of the country but Gadhafi still and a small but unknown num- Wednesday to try to work out opposed intervention in Libya,
LIBYA
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that Gadhafi’s forces had inten-
sified their attacks against rebel
in power in Tripoli and other
areas.
ber were carried out by planes
from other countries.
Allied warplanes destroyed
an agreement on who will
assume command of the op-
eration in Libya after the U.S.
to pull military personnel from
NATO aerial reconnaissance
teams in the Mediterranean
areas in the last day, despite the At least four powerful explo-
stepped-up air campaign. sions consistent with airstrikes two missile sites around Trip- steps back from the lead. Re- so that they would not be par-
within 100 yards of the facility. or cruise missile strikes could oli, the capital, and also hit a ports suggested some progress ticipating in the Libya mission.
“In Ajdabiya, regime forces
“The situation is very serious be heard in central Tripoli on government ammunition depot in bridging divisions between But Berlin said it would assign
intensified combat in, into and
here in Misrata,” said an op- Wednesday at around 11 p.m., outside the city of Misrata and alliance members such as Brit- 300 more troops to Afghanistan
out of the city. In Misrata, re- Libyan Army ground forces ain and Italy that want NATO to compensate so that there
position supporter in the city apparently from the direction
gime forces continue to clear around Ajdabiya, the eastern to take command, and others, would be no net effect on NATO
reached Wednesday evening. of Gadhafi’s Bab Aziziya resi-
opposition, increase combat dential compound. city where large numbers of including France and Turkey, personnel.
“The tanks are coming again to
operations and target civilian The senior U.S. officer of- Libyan troops remain. that say a NATO command Despite discord over the no-
the center of Misrata city and
populations in the city,” he told fered no timetable for how A witness in Misrata said the would be politically unwise with fly zone, NATO began helping
they are bombing the hospital at airstrike on the ammunition regard to public opinion in the to enforce the arms embargo
reporters at the Pentagon from long the U.S. and its allies were
this time.” depot caused an earth-shaking Arab and Muslim world. against Libya. The alliance has
a ship off Libya’s coast. prepared to let the limited air-
U.S. officers said the U.S.-led strikes continue, or how the explosion and sent a fireball One compromise envisions sent six warships to waters off
The signs that Gadhafi is
campaign is not conducting international effort could be into the sky early Wednesday the coalition tapping NATO mil- the Libyan coast to help “cut
moving forces and targeting op-
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MURAL
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“What is next, the burning of books or the end of
Labor Day as a holiday? When you add it all up, he is
liberal/democrat/socialist/
communityist Left that is tak-
ing over Maine!!!”
SCHOOLS
Continued from Page A1
Among the positions
that stand to be cut
talking about business in a narrow sense that excludes The mural was unveiled in
August 2008, following the con- are six teachers in the
child labor, according to a 2008 Maine people and the public interest.” him to the position.
solidation of five offices in the city’s four elementary
memo from the Department of Augusta area and one in Lew- Gousse said the proposed cuts
Labor. Jose Lopez schools, nine full-time
director, League of United Latin American Citizens iston to a central location on would cause “the systematic
LePage explained his deci- Commerce Drive in Augusta. dismantlement of public educa- and four part-time
sion on the Boston-based served that this mural is noth- Rooms also are named after According to information tion in Westbrook.”
Howie Carr radio show late in teachers at the middle
ing but propaganda to further Charles Scontras, a longtime released at the time, the state “This is not bare-bones.
the day. the agenda of the Union move- University of Maine profes- used $60,000 in federal funds to school, and seven
This is devastating,” he said
“I’m trying to send a message ment. I felt for a moment that I sor and a leading authority on pay for the mural. LePage said
to everyone in the state that Wednesday. full-time and one
was in communist North Korea Maine labor history, and Wil- officials are looking for muse- Gousse, Westbrook High
the state of Maine looks at em- where they use these murals to liam Looney, a Republican part-time teacher at
ums in Maine that might be School’s principal for the past
ployees and employers equally, brainwash the masses.” state legislator from Portland the high school.
interested in displaying it. 10 years, said unavoidable ex-
neutrally and on balance,” he The fax is signed “A Secret who helped pass child labor Judy Taylor of Tremont, the penses, including contracted
said. “The mural sends a mes- Admirer.” laws in the late 1800s. artist who created and in- salary increases and utility
sage that we’re one-sided, and Dana Connors, president of In the memo, Boyett makes increase taxes or make the pro-
stalled the work, was traveling
I don’t want to send that mes- the Maine State Chamber of it clear to staffers that while costs, account for the 2011-12 posed cuts, “but one of those is
Wednesday and could not be
sage.” Commerce, said he has not they are awaiting a permanent budget’s increase over this going to happen.”
reached for comment. Her hus-
Ralph Carmona, spokesman received any complaints about labor commissioner, she wants year’s $32.2 million. The School Committee is ex-
for the League of United Latin band said they had been bar-
the mural from businesses. But the department to move ahead raged by media calls, including Finance Committee Chair- pected to adopt the budget on
American Citizens, said a di- he said LePage is trying to fol- with changes. man Alex Stone said the district April 27. Residents will vote on
rective to rename a conference one from The New York Times.
low through on his mission to “We have received feedback She told the Lewiston Sun expects about $30 million in that budget June 7.
room that’s now named for the make Maine more business- that the administration build- revenue for the year starting One position that Gousse has
late farm worker advocate Ce- Journal on Tuesday that she
friendly by being sensitive to all ing is not perceived as equally hadn’t heard any negative July 1, which is $3.7 million less already eliminated is the direc-
sar Chavez is troubling. interests. receptive to both businesses feedback about the mural from than it needs to cover expenses. tor of facilities, maintenance
“The really bad news is that He suggested a compromise and workers – primarily be-
his decision to remove a civil businesses. Namin’s proposed cuts, totaling and transportation, which
to taking down all 11 panels of cause of the nature of the mu- saves about $100,000 in sal-
rights icon’s name from the “There was never any inten- $3.2 million, wouldn’t complete-
the mural. ral in the lobby and the names
Labor Department reflects an tion to be pro-labor or anti-la- ly close the gap. ary and benefits, he said. Also,
“Instead of removing them all, of our conference rooms,” she
underlying pattern of actions bor,” she said. “It was a pure Gousse said he didn’t know the city and school technology
maybe we could add a business wrote. “Whether or not the per-
and words that affect all Main- depiction of the facts.” the effect the budget would director has resigned effective
element to it,” he said. “One ception is valid is not really at
ers,” he said. Scontras, the University of have on the city’s property tax April 15.
that depicts the importance of issue and therefore, not open
That pattern includes LeP- Maine professor, worked close- rate, with or without the cuts. Gousse said he and City Ad-
employer and employee.” to debate.”
age’s comment to the NAACP ly with Taylor to help create the He deferred questions to Dawn ministrator Jerre Bryant are
David Clough, director of the She asks workers to sug-
to “kiss my butt,” saying that Maine branch of the National gest names for the conference mural. He said he finds it sur- Ouellette, chief financial offi- discussing how to fill that posi-
women might grow “little Federation of Independent rooms by April 5 and indicates prising that LePage, a Franco- cer for the city and the school tion.
beards” if they are exposed to Businesses, said there is a there will be “a small prize” American, would remove im- “We’ve got some more re-
department, who could not be
the chemical Bisphenol-A, and need in Maine for better bal- for anyone who comes up with ages that depict the workers structuring to do,” he said.
reached Wednesday.
a statement that he would go ance between small business a new name. Boyett said that who once were the “spine” of Namin, who was hired to be
the state’s economy. The first public hearing on the
after union rights, Carmona and labor. replacing the mural with a proposed budget will begin at superintendent of the Spen-
said. “Small-business owners neutral paint and renaming “He’s erasing a couple hun- cer-East Brookfield Regional
dred years of history,” Scontras 7 p.m. next Wednesday at the
“What is next, the burning of would like to see a department the conference rooms after School District in central Mas-
said. “I can’t imagine a gover- Westbrook Performing Arts
books or the end of Labor Day that’s visually and substantive- mountains in Maine would be sachusetts, has said he decided
as a holiday?” said Jose Lopez, nor who has the audacity to Center. Another hearing will be
ly balanced between labor and appropriate. to leave Westbrook to be closer
director of the Latin American the businesses that provide The story generated heavy proceed this way when he can’t held April 13, if needed.
to his wife’s ailing father. He
league. “When you add it all up, jobs for workers,” he said. Web traffic Wednesday, includ- even win a runoff election.” Among the positions targeted
will be paid through the end of
he is talking about business in LePage spokeswoman Ben- ing hundreds of comments on Scontras was referring to for cuts are six teachers in the
June.
a narrow sense that excludes nett also released a memo MaineToday Media’s websites. LePage’s victory in November city’s four elementary schools,
Gousse, who earns about
Maine people and the public from acting Labor Commis- “When will this governor, with 38 percent of the vote. nine full-time and four part- $97,000 a year as the high school
interest.” sioner Laura Boyett that asks this state, this nation get it?” In a statement released time teachers at the middle
Wednesday, Maine AFL-CIO principal, will not receive a pay
LePage spokeswoman staffers for suggestions about wrote SidneyBob. “Without school, and seven full-time and increase until July. He signed
Adrienne Bennett said the renaming the seven confer- labor there’d be no business. President Don Berry described one part-time teacher at the
the removal of the mural as a contract to serve as interim
governor’s office has received ence rooms, some of which are Without business there’d be high school.
“political payback, the opposite superintendent through June
“several messages” from the named after labor leaders. no labor. They’re in this to- Under the proposal, no middle
of putting people first.” 2012.
public complaining about the Four rooms are named af- gether. WE’RE in this together. school or freshman sports
mural. She also released an ter women, including Marion Enough rancor, partisan poli- “It’s a spiteful, mean-spir- Gousse said Wednesday that
teams, or the ice hockey pro- he plans to nominate Jon Ross,
anonymous fax, dated Feb. 24, Martin, the state labor com- tics, demonizing, taking sides ited move by the governor that
gram, would receive funding. the district’s director of adult
that apparently came from missioner from 1947 to 1972 ... Divided we fall – and boy are does nothing to create jobs or
improve the Maine economy,” Field trips districtwide and and alternative education, to
someone who recently visited who is credited with forming we falling fast – as a state and
the Labor Department’s lobby. the National Federation of Re- as a nation.” he said. stipends for teachers who su- be high school principal for the
“In this mural I observed a publican Women; and Frances On the other side, someone pervise activities, such as the rest of this school year.
figure which closely resembles Perkins, secretary of labor un- named David supported LeP- MaineToday Media State House Writer chess club and yearbook, also
the former commissioner of der Franklin D. Roosevelt and age’s decision. Susan Cover can be contacted at 620- would be eliminated. Staff Writer Leslie Bridgers can be
labor,” the person wrote. “In the first woman to hold a U.S. “Go Gov. Lepage!!! Finally 7015 or at: “It’s sickening,” Stone said. contacted at 791-6364 or at:
studying the mural I also ob- Cabinet post. someone who will take on the scover@mainetoday.com He said he doesn’t want to lbridgers@mainetoday.com
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THURSDAY OPINION
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
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hile the world’s attention is fo- So, instead of being buried deep but none threaten human health as
cused on nuclear power – more underground in a geologically stable to complain about. There are unlim- many wars, illness and stress, yet
much as nuclear power. ited things happening right under kept loving and smiling – especially
on its obvious risks than its rock formation, the waste is scattered Paul Santomenna
equally real benefits, at least for now around the country, where it remains Executive director, Maine chapter
your noses that will really give you when she dug into a lobster at her
– it’s a good time to ponder a problem far more vulnerable to either attack or Physicians for Social Responsibility something to worry about. 95th birthday party. And I think of
that won’t go away even if no new natural disasters. Freeport Herb Strout Misha and Natasha, my grandchil-
Cape Elizabeth dren, and the possibility that they
nuclear plant is ever built. Although Congress created a federal
– and others like them – may make
That is the question of what to do mandate for long-term storage as far We can land people on the moon, I have read with some dismay the the world brighter and more peaceful.
with the 71,862 tons of spent nuclear back as 1982, with a deadline for ac- maintain an orbiting space station,
fuel being stored at more than 100 cepting it of 1998, the Yucca Mountain articles on the smart-meter contro- And I experience hope.
build human body parts. Why do we
sites around the nation, including in site wasn’t selected until 2002 and re- versy. It is unfortunate that we still Happy birthday, Veselin Kesich of
not seem able to respond to disasters
Wiscasset, the former location of the mains only partially constructed. have citizens who are ruled by such Scarborough. And, oh yeah, happy
both natural and man-made?
Maine Yankee plant. It’s time to stop fooling around. misguided fallacies and anti-science birthday to me, too.
After watching helicopters dump
The national high-level (dangerously While President Obama supports water on the reactors in Japan, I bias. Norman Abelson
To these people, the symptoms Moody
radioactive) nuclear waste amount is the continued development of nuclear thought there has to be a better way.
growing by about 2,200 tons a year, and plants, which now provide about 20 If nothing else, I am sure we have the they claim are real. No amount of
not only does it comprise a source of percent of U.S. electricity, and has ap- technology to build helicopters that evidence will shake their delusion. It was a joy to read Greg Kesich’s
hazard in case of natural disaster, it is proved guarantees for their construc- would shield the pilots from radiation. The only solution I can see would be March 16 commentary on his dad’s
a potential target for terrorist attack. tion, that pledge contains a huge gap The human race seems incapable to allow such people to opt out and 90th birthday, “The view from 90 in-
The sites are well-guarded, of as long as he avoids a decision on the of adequately preparing for emergen- then charge them for the extra cost cludes more than a few surprises.”
course, but as we learned in Japan, long-term storage of spent fuel. cies. After just about every emer- incurred in manual meter reading. To gain such insight from a long
huge earthquakes and 30-foot tsuna- New reactor designs are capable of gency the question is asked, “How My involvement with microwave life well-lived is a rare and important
mis can make a wreck of humanity’s automatic shutdown without radiation come we don’t have more basic first effects dates back to post-World War thing. The role of family, education
normal precautions. release in case of disaster, and some of responders?” II physiological experiments. Since and culture is made whole in the
But there is a better way. The fed- them would use less hazardous forms Larry Horn then I have tried to keep current on father’s struggles of life.
eral government has spent $9 billion of fuel. Sweden peer-reviewed publications on the But the son should know the great-
preparing a much more secure stor- As long as new plants are resisted, subject. So far I have not read of any est surprise and the best 90th birthday
reproducible effects being observed present must be for the father to see
age facility for the waste at the now- however, we continue to rely on older I have no connection to the power at power levels of much higher than what a fine man the son has become.
famous Yucca Mountain site in Ne- designs that are less safe and efficient. industry except to pay for electric-
vada, but local opposition and political And we continue to accept the obvious ity that I use. I am 95 years old. This
those produced by smart meters. Tom Connolly
influence has kept the facility from hazards of dispersed and exposed With the background radiation we Portland
old body has been subjected to every
becoming operational. above-ground waste storage. kind of electronic radiation known to
man since I was 12 years old. PAT OLIPHANT’S VIEW
It began when I started fooling
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emember when it seemed as if siderable weight with lawmakers on and around radio towers of 50,000-
redesigning the state driver’s and public opinion. But now, with al- watt broadcast stations, radars on
license was one of the most most no fuss, a new driver’s license ships, etc.
controversial issues Maine had ever is set to be implemented next week. All human bodies are made of the
confronted? It will debut on a limited basis at same material, so why would anyone
Spurred by a mandate for a form of first with renewals in Augusta, then be different than me? It comes down
identification that could not be eas- with all renewals statewide by June. to the fact that those people who
ily counterfeited, the federal govern- People who want one before their object to the new (Central Maine
ment told states that their licenses current licenses expire can get them Power) smart meters have no idea
had to be redesigned (at significant replaced for $5. about the subject and are either para-
cost) and that they had to include a The licenses resemble the current noid or need to visit a psychiatrist.
variety of security devices. ones, with a large photo on the left I live within 250 feet of three cell Letters to the Editor, The Portland Press
If the states failed to conform to and a smaller one in a hard-to-copy towers, as a matter of fact. It reminds TO OUR READERS Herald, P.O. Box 1460, Portland, ME
those “Real ID” standards, the gov- format on the right. me of the time I was applying for a Letters to the editor should run approxi- 04104-5009.
ernment threatened, their citizens Other security measures are incor- permit to build these towers. There mately 300 words or less. Longer ones Letters that are libelous, obscene, deal
could no longer use the licenses as a porated, but they apparently do not were many similar people making an may be edited for length. They must with personal or private matters or that
form of ID for air travel. contain a chip with personal data, issue of it, saying they would be ir- include the writer’s name, address and have been overtaken by events will not
After considerable resistance, the which was one of the concerns of pri- radiated and their children would be daytime phone number for verification be published.
Transportation Security Agency vacy advocates, who worried about harmed, etc. Now these same people purposes. Maine Voices columns (650-750 words)
standards were relaxed somewhat, disclosures if the licenses were lost have cell phones and all the other Letters may be emailed to: should include the author’s name, address
and some funds were provided for or stolen. Some such chips are also gadgets surrounding them that emit letterstotheeditor@pressherald.com (no and daytime phone and be emailed to:
the transition. Maine was one of the vulnerable to being read remotely, 10,000 times the (radio frequency) attachments) or faxed to (207) 791-6920. mainevoices@pressherald.com.
longer holdouts, with concerns over letting their data be stolen easily. energy put out by the meters. Letters are published online. Columns are also published online and
individual privacy and the specter of But one feature won’t change. The So, ladies and gentlemen, cool down Mailed letters should be addressed to: may be edited for length and content.
a “national ID card” carrying con- photos will still be awful. and find something more important
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MORE LETTERS
Trip abroad leaves Obama weak Recall teaches mayor who’s boss
His jaunt to South America ABOUT THE AUTHOR the House, and with it the rest of A Florida car dealer fed consider reforming the char-
his agenda. CAL ter and allow the public to vote
as bombs rained on Libya up with business as usual
Dana Milbank is a columnist The attack on Libya presented THOMAS on proposed changes.
is close to George W. Bush’s with The Washington Post the toughest test yet of Obama’s rallies voters from across Some pundits and Democrat-
Writers Group. He can be defiance of the news cycle. In a the political spectrum. ic politicians have predicted
‘The Pet Goat’ moment.
contacted at: danamilbank@ USA Today op-ed before his de- that the tea party movement
washpost.com. parture, Obama wrote that while to reform government is a
WASHINGTON — After two orman Braman is not flash in the pan and won’t last
N
the Middle East is important, he
years of being called a tyrant your typical billionaire car sented another county) would through the 2012 election. Nor-
military action. Obama admin- was going to Latin America be-
and a dictator, President Obama dealer. Nor is he your typi- be able to attract Hispanics man Braman begs to differ. He
istration officials calculated that cause “our top priority has to
returns to Washington from a cal establishment Republican, and African-Americans, angry tells me a tea party group in
he would take a hit. be creating and sustaining new
five-day overseas trip to find who too often puts party above whites as well as Democrats, Fort Lauderdale “gave me a
But they appear to have been jobs and new opportunities.”
that he has become a weakling. principle. Norman Braman is Republicans and independents medal.”
surprised by the force of the The administration officials I
Would-be opponents such as the type of person who strikes of various hues is the ultimate The flip side of an energized
weakling complaint, coming not spoke with argued that this, it-
Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty and fear into the hearts of every in coalition politics. According electorate demanding that
just from usual suspects such self, was a sign of strong leader-
Sarah Palin had been trying out professional politician who to a recent story in the Miami government not spend more
as Karl Rove but from liberals ship. “To abandon course at ev-
this somewhat contradictory thinks he can say one thing Herald, “Eighty-eight percent than it takes in and that it
such as my Washington Post ery moment of pundit criticism
line of attack for more than a to get elected and then do the voted to oust Alvarez and take in only what it absolutely
colleague Richard Cohen, who is not strength,” said one of the
month, as Obama gave mixed opposite once in office. Seijas in the biggest recall of a needs, respecting the people
saw Obama “quite literally dis- president’s top advisers.
signals about events in Egypt In case you haven’t been local politician in U.S. history.” who earn it, is that increas-
tancing himself from the conse- They pointed to polls showing
and Libya. But the “weak paying attention, Braman led Braman says people should ing numbers of us must be
quences of his own policy.” most Americans continue to re-
leader” charge gained traction a successful drive to recall Re- take one message from his ef- torn away from the public
My own sense, based on years gard Obama as a strong leader,
last weekend as Obama chose publican Mayor Carlos Alvarez forts: “This is not a Republican trough. “You can do it,” rather
of Obamology and confirmed by and they argued that, beyond
to launch the attack on Moam- of Miami-Dade, Fla., and Com- or Democratic issue. It is a than “government will do it
discussions with current and Washington, headlines from
mar Gadhafi’s forces while on missioner Natacha Seijas. referendum for change.” for you,” is the type of think-
former Obama advisers, is that Obama’s trip justified his strat-
an excellent ad-venture in South Their offenses? In a tele- ing that built America and
Obama’s decision to proceed egy. (“Obama’s trip to Brazil key
America with his family. phone conversation, Braman sustained us through wars and
with spring break in Rio comes to N.J. businesses,” reported
SEEING THE SIGHTS less from weakness than from the Bergen Record.) tells me there were many, Increasing numbers of economic downturns.
At about the moment the stubbornness. including, he says, “sloppy us must be torn away Four years ago, the Christian
Tomahawk missiles began to Since his earliest days on the
DISCOVERING THE PERILS bookkeeping, fraud, and Science Monitor reported that,
But the White House is also the mayor’s decision to use from the public trough. according to an analysis by
rain down on Libya, Obama was campaign trail in Iowa, he has
discovering the perils of broad- tax dollars to build a sports Gary Shilling, an economist in
joking with Brazilians about made clear his aversion to the
brush leadership. The latest stadium for the local baseball Springfield, N.J., “Slightly over
Carnival, the World Cup and the flavor-of-the-day news cycle,
Post/ABC News poll found that team” when fiscal challenges The tough part comes next. half of all Americans – 52.6
Olympics. Rather than hearing instead measuring his progress
when Americans were asked for the city and high unem- While the symbolism of oust- percent – now receive sig-
an Oval Office address announc- toward a few broad-brush goals,
who is taking “a stronger lead- ployment were harming the ing two incumbent politicians nificant income from govern-
ing the new war, Americans got such as American competitive-
ership role,” Republicans had local economy. with a recall vote may encour- ment programs.” That figure
word from the president in a ness and America’s standing in
a seven-point advantage over Braman filed a lawsuit in age people who think the is probably higher today. No
scratchy audio recording. the world. If something – such
Obama; three months ago, hopes of stopping construction system can’t work for them, in- wonder many have become
As warheads pounded Libyan as the uprisings in the Middle
Obama had a narrow lead. of the stadium. He lost. The fi- stitutional change will require addicted to the politicians who
forces, Obama was kicking a East – doesn’t fit unambiguously
The White House justifiably nal straw, he tells me, was when scaling a much higher wall. keep sending them checks in-
soccer ball, seeing the sights and within his big goals, his instinct
complains that the criticism of Alvarez and Seijas backed an As the Herald reported, stead of encouraging the able-
watching cowboys in sequins. is to brush it off.
Obama’s Libya policy has been increase in salaries for public the county charter must be bodied to care for themselves.
It was perilously close to George “I know everybody here is on
inconsistent: First he was too employee union members and changed if political business is The United States is seriously
W. Bush’s “The Pet Goat” mo- a 24-hour news cycle,” he told
slow to take action, and now a property tax increase to help not to remain as usual. “Com- and dangerously speeding
ment, when then-President Bush reporters once. “I’m not. OK?”
he’s rushing to attack without pay for it. Braman says he was missioners,” it found, “have of- toward socialism, in function,
continued reading a storybook This worked to his benefit dur-
congressional approval – even enraged because seniors were ten refused to bring proposals if not in name.
with children on Sept. 11, 2001, ing the campaign, when he kept
though Congress is on its own not getting a cost-of-living in- to change the charter before Howard Jarvis led an anti-
after being told the second World his focus on electoral mechanics
10-day spring break. crease and the jobless numbers the public for a vote.” tax revolt over high property
Trade Center tower had been hit. rather than the vagaries of his
But it doesn’t matter if the were growing. The momentum may be shift- taxes in California. In 2011,
Bush later said he was try- opponents’ attacks.
criticism is fair. Obama left a Braman launched a website ing. The commissioners are Norman Braman of Miami
ing to maintain calm; likewise, But as president, his broad
vacuum, and his opponents (www.recallmayoralvarez. set to meet this week to plan could be his successor.
White House officials tell me brushes have not always served
filled it. For a president sud- org) and the campaign was a special election to replace
the decision to proceed with the him well, as when his laser focus
denly called “weak,” such is the on. That a prominent Miami Alvarez and Seijas. There is
South America trip was made on health care left voters with Cal Thomas is a columnist for Tribune
tyranny of the news cycle. businessman who had voted also a good chance, given the
in part to convey that the Libya the sense that he didn’t care Media Services. He can be contacted at:
bombardment was not a major about unemployment. He lost — The Washington Post for Alvarez (Seijas repre- recall results, that they might tmseditors@tribune.com
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AUGUSTA — A panel of law- tile due to sexually transmitted insurance that offers the chance senfort of Anthem Blue Cross
Toothaker said she and her and keep the overall cost of
makers heard story after story disease. to get financial assistance with & Blue Shield. “We simply can’t
husband have been struggling health care down,” Knight said.
of heartbreak Wednesday from “That provision that discrimi- infertility treatments, who is the choose to increase our health
to start a family since 1999. Infertility treatment cover- nates against unmarried indi- state of Maine to judge whether insurance costs at this time.
would-be parents testifying in
“There are treatments avail- age is mandated in nine states, viduals is unconstitutional un- she is married or free of an Insurance doesn’t do any good if
support of a bill that would re-
quire insurance companies to able that offer high success including Connecticut, Mas- der Supreme Court precedent,” STD?” people can’t afford the coverage
cover infertility treatments. rates with our diagnosis with sachusetts and Rhode Island, said Shenna Bellows, executive Representatives from Maine’s to start.”
Many who spoke at the public unexplained infertility.” according to testimony. director of the civil liberties insurance industry also opposed
hearing were unable to control State Rep. Gary Knight, R- But the proposal, L.D. 720, union. the proposal, arguing it would MaineToday Media State House Writer
their emotions as they told of Livermore Falls, a bill sponsor, faces opposition from both the State Rep. Melissa Walsh increase costs for all ratepay- Rebekah Metzler can be contacted at
struggling for years to conceive, said many Mainers needlessly Maine Civil Liberties Union and Innes, D-Yarmouth, a co-spon- ers. 620-7016 or at:
spending thousands of dollars suffer the pain of infertility when the Family Planning Association sor of the measure, also said “The (Maine) Bureau of In- rmetzler@mainetoday.com
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time in emergency rooms and
hospitals.
Kelly said the service has
clearly reduced costs, saving
about $5 for every dollar spent,
and reduced depression, which
often contributes to patients’
health problems.
“We were taken aback by the
decision.” But, he said, “it’s
not unusual when states find
themselves in dramatic fiscal
distress.”
New Hampshire and Indiana
have also scaled back contracts
in recent years, he said.
Aetna’s prior-authorization
work will end March 31. “Some
of the services will be eliminated
altogether and some of them will
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be done internally” at Maine- Independent Distributor
Reiche School kindergarten students Nasteeho Mohamud, 5, and Greta Holmes, 6, attend Care, Nadeau said.
the Portland Pirates game Tuesday at the Cumberland County Civic Center in Portland. The contractor will continue
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and teacher at Eight Corners
Elementary in Scarborough
who accompanied about 40
hockey games and originally
decided that her grandson, a
fifth-grader, would not go on
going to be preserved. We are
bringing that” into the depart-
ment, Nadeau said.
the field trip. It is clear that care manage-
first- and second-graders to
“This is a physical, aggres- ment can save the state money,
the game, said she made the But his teacher called to
sive game,” he said. “We’re Nadeau said, and MaineCare’s
fight “a teachable moment.” encourage her to send him to
seeing less fighting in our ability to do care management
“I told them, ‘Hockey players the game and said the school
sport. In this case, yes, it went internally will expand over time
are much like first-graders had been “guaranteed” a non-
beyond a normal fight.” because of a new computer
sometimes – they have dis- violent game by the Pirates, so
Petrovek denied reports from system.
agreements and they have con- she relented.
The LePage administration
several school administrators sequences for what they do,’ ” Johnson said she saw other
also is evaluating a new man-
that they were told by a Pirates Allen said. “When the referee students at her grandson’s agement structure for Maine-
official who coordinated the thought they could make bet- bus stop mimicking the hockey Care that will include expanded
event that players would be ter choices, they were allowed fight Wednesday morning, and care management, she said.
reminded that students were back into the game.” then when she read about the MaineCare is a division of the
in the audience and cautioned Actually, four players were brawl, she wished she had state Department of Health and
about aggressive behavior. ejected from the game, but stuck with her original deci- Human Services, which had
Peter Mortenson, principal not the one the Eight Corners’ sion. been preparing to hire managed
of Lake Region Middle School, students were most interested “I’m ashamed of these guys care companies to start running
which sent 225 students to the in. That player, Nick Crawford, and what they did in front of MaineCare as soon as next year.
game as a reward “for their read to the kids at the school these children,” she said. Now, the new management
civil behavior in the building,” a few weeks ago as part of a Other school officials said structure is expected to take
said he was told the players reading program. they didn’t have any complaints effect within the next two years,
were told that “the normal On Tuesday, Crawford traded or issues with the game, includ- Nadeau said, and it’s not clear
aggressive behavior is not ac- ing the principals at Cathedral how much of the operation will
punches with another player in
ceptable.” School in Portland and Sanford be contracted out. “We haven’t
the first fight of the game, and
Petrovek said the staff mem- Junior High School. settled on an exact model.”
Allen said her students were
ber in charge of the School Petrovek said the games are Nadeau said the $7 million
upset that he had to sit in the
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do no harm,” she said, adding
who asked that there were no that he waved to the students
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