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EDITORIAL: Bills offer right response to military sex abuse crisis
Portland Press Herald, MaineRape and sexual abuse perpetrated against members of the military by fellow service members have reached epidemic proportions and are a national disgrace. Despite several years of increasing public awareness, these crimes against women and men serving...Tags: U.S. Congress, Chellie Pingree, Sexual Assault, Crime, Law and Justice, The Washington Post
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EDITORIAL: A dishonorable level of sex crimes among the ranks
Sun Journal, Lewiston, MaineIn 2011, Newsweek published a sobering piece on sexual assaults in the military. The magazine reported that women are more likely to be sexually assaulted by a fellow soldier than to be killed in combat. And, according to the Pentagon, sexual assaults...Tags: U.S. Military, U.S. Congress, Armed Forces, Sexual Assault, Criminals
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Washington Notebook: Snowe recalls offer to play Joan of Arc
Portland Press Herald, MaineFormer Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe was all over the media landscape last week promoting her new book, "Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress." Snowe's suggestions on congressional reforms (among them open primaries and an...Tags: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Politics, Sexual Assault, Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney
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LePage vetoes bill calling for Internet sales tax study
Bangor Daily News, MaineGov. Paul LePage vetoed his sixth bill of the legislative session Friday afternoon. LD 319 directed Maine Revenue Services to review Maine's conformity with the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement, which is an agreement among several states and...Tags: U.S. Congress, Politics, Paul LePage, Environmental Issues, Government
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Mainer tells Congress poverty can be beaten
Portland Press Herald, MaineBy the time Patricia Marshall enrolled at Colby College in the fall of 1990, she had endured a childhood of poverty that likely would have shocked most of her classmates. She had lived most of her years in rural Maine without indoor plumbing. To...Tags: Students, U.S. Congress, Personal Income, Colleges and Universities, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Top U.S. general warns of sexual assault 'crisis,' meets Obama
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top general in the U.S. Armed Forces warned of a crisis of confidence in the growing ranks of women soldiers due to a rash of sexual assault cases that has prompted lawmakers to act. The warning by Army General Martin Dempsey...Tags: U.S. Military, Military Justice, Politics, Armed Forces, Chuck Hagel
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Mainers on Capitol Hill denounce IRS scandal
Portland Press Herald, MaineMaine's U.S. House and Senate members agreed Wednesday that the Internal Revenue Service overstepped its bounds by subjecting conservative groups to more scrutiny, but differed on whether the inquiries were politically motivated. The scandals dominating...Tags: U.S. Congress, Politics, Republican Party, Taxation, Angus King
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Maine lobster a major treat on D.C. streets
Portland Press Herald, MaineIt's lunchtime on a warm, sunny Friday in downtown Washington. The sidewalks around Farragut Square -- a postage stamp of grass and benches two blocks from the White House -- are packed with hundreds of hungry workers mulling the culinary choices...Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Vehicles, Michael Bloomberg, Foods and Beverages, New York City
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Maine shipyard workers get reprieve from furloughs
Portland Press Herald, MaineWorkers at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery got a reprieve Tuesday from federal budget cuts that will require more than 600,000 civilian defense employees nationwide to take unpaid days off. The Pentagon announced that the Navy's four public...Tags: Politics, U.S. Congress, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Public Finance, Angus King
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IRS's power requires great responsibility
The Philadelphia InquirerThe following editorial appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Tuesday, May 14: ___ Internal Revenue Service has found itself at the other end of an audit, and rightly so. The recent revelation that the agency targeted conservative groups for...Tags: Politics, Political Corruption, Glenn Beck, Taxation, The Washington Post
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EDITORIAL: IRS plays politics
The Frederick News-Post, Md.U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, has called the still-unfolding scandal within the Internal Revenue Service "absolutely chilling" -- and doesn't believe the misconduct was solely the work of a handful of rogue agents. Nor do we. We're as outraged as...Tags: U.S. Congress, Politics, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), George W. Bush, Taxation
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EDITORIAL: IRS's power requires great responsibility
The Philadelphia InquirerInternal Revenue Service has found itself at the other end of an audit, and rightly so. The recent revelation that the agency targeted conservative groups for heightened scrutiny raises the specter of misuse of one of government's greatest powers --...Tags: Political Corruption, Politics, Glenn Beck, Taxation, The Washington Post
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