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Paulson to Tap Adviser to Run Rescue Program
Neel Kashkari is expected to be named interim head of Treasury's new Office of Financial Stability. The position is interim, pending Senate confirmation.
Paulson: Next Role May Well Be at an Enviro Group
Even in his globe-trotting days at Goldman, Paulson served as chairman of the Nature Conservancy and sat on the board of the Peregrine Fund.
Europe Races to Shore Up Banks as Crisis Spreads
The U.S. Federal Reserve has taken aggressive actions in recent weeks to try to alleviate the severe pressures weighing on damaged short-term funding markets. New measures from the central bank are likely in the days ahead.
Frary Calls for Gold Standard Consideration
Ronald Reagan was willing to consider returning to the gold standard and put the economist Robert Mundell to work devising a program to that end. It is time to place this project under consideration once more.
Dems Say Lewiston is Disenfranchising Voters
Will Fessenden, chairman of the Androscoggin County Democrats said he's reported the situation to the state Democratic Party and to the Maine Civil Liberties Union.
Rumford Cops Put Criminal Mug Shots on the Web
Especially when the crime involves drunken driving or domestic assault.
Coast Guard Seeks Public Help for Hoax Calls
That latest hoax occurred Saturday when a man called on a radio saying he had hit rocks near the Hampton Bridge, NH.
Conservation/Commodity Farm Bill Titles Meetings
Farmers, forest landowners, land managers and others interested in the Conservation and other programs of the 2008 Farm Bill will have the opportunity to attend one of many information workshops being held through the state.
Obama’s Friend: Bill Ayers
Catch this article before it disappears.
Obama Fundraising: If It Looks Too Good to Be True...
It can be an invitation for fraud and illegal foreign cash because donors giving individual sums of $200 or less don't have to be publicly reported.
Baldacci Radio Address: Budget Realities, 10/4
’With the exception of the voter-mandated increases in education...State government has essentially been flat funded.’
Predictions for an Obama Presidency?
What do you foresee happening during an Obama administration, should he be elected?
BDN Profiles Charlie Summers
Summers said the key issues of the campaign have always been the economy, energy and the war in Iraq.
Wood Pellet Supply Short?
The problem: people are stockpiling them.
Navy Confirms Lost WWII Sub Has Been Found
The USS Grunion was last heard from July 30, 1942.
Allen: Most Effective Maine Legislator? The Rest of the Story!
It's interesting the organization that gave Allen this rating consider earmark success a big ‘power ranking’ item.
WWII D-Day MIA Soldier Found, Coming Home
Army 2nd Lt. Ernest E. Martin was listed as MIA Nov. 10, 1944, five months after the Allied invasion of Normandy. His unit participated in the liberation of Paris.
Frary: Why I Would Vote for a Putrid [Fed Bailout] Bill
I would have voted for it because the chief of the Fed and the Sec'y of the Treasury seem to be in a panic, and if they are in a panic what are the other heads of the Central Banks feeling and what are the big investment and financial leaders feeling?
Senator Collins To Help John Frary
Sen. Collins’s contribution will enable Frary to continue his widely read newspaper ads.
House Passes Bailout Bill
Allen voted YEA, Michaud voted NAY.
