Former US Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine continues push for bipartisanship in new book
PORTLAND, Maine — Republican Olympia Snowe of Maine railed against obstructionist politics and partisanship in the Senate. Now she’s continuing to work for civility and compromise from outside the Senate. She writes in a new book, “Fighting for ...

New York City Ponders Permitting Immigrants To Vote
New York City – Agha Saleh came to the United States inspired by democratic ideals, but it took him years to achieve a basic one here: voting. He'd lived through political upheaval in his native Pakistan and was eager to be part of America's ...

Level Global Co-Founder to Get 6 1/2 Year Sentence
Chiasson, 39, of New York, began his ... never implicated,” John Carroll, Ganek’s lawyer, has said. The case is U.S. v. Newman, 1:12-cr-00121, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan). To contact the reporter on this ...

Northern New England seeing surge in heroin use
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A rise in heroin abuse in Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire is being blamed partly on aggressive marketing by out-of-state drug dealers and the higher cost of prescription drugs sold illegally on the streets. In Vermont, Rutland ...

B&Bs: Bliss or bad eggs
I value independent businesses over chains ... to know what's underneath. (There's a reason so many architecture buffs are also minimalists.) And the tchotchkes! What some might appreciate as quirky I consider a good head start on that Hoarders ...

Should we allow non-citizens to vote?
Advocates say non-citizens pay the same taxes as citizens, and have the same concerns — about education, crime, and more On Thursday, the New York City Council started debating a proposal that would give non-citizens the right to vote in municipal ...