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Like Rhode Island Democrats?

If we took seriously those who say subtracting two working days from the time available for voter registration is a bad idea, there are other things we would have to believe as well. The first is that the current registration system is adequate to prevent fraudulent voting.

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Email and text messages delivered the news of Moammar Gadhafi's capture and death to Elizabeth McLellan. "I do feel relief," McLellan said Thursday. "I think it's a step in the right direction for the Libyan people. There was no way they were going to allow Gadhafi to be in power again. They want to be free."

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; the Measure, Co-Authored by Sen. Maine and Vermont Interstates.

The Senate is on the verge of passing legislation that would allow trucks weighing up to 100,000 pounds to exit Maine's side roads and use all Maine interstate highways. The truck weight measure has been long sought by the Maine congressional delegation, state officials and many local residents worried about big rigs rumbling through intersections, past homes and schools.

Prescription Painkillers in Maine: Series: Prescription Painkillers in Maine: Levels. Addiction Because of How They Alter the Brain. About Losing His Son, 19, to an Overdose. Dependent On Opiates. Future. Possible to Protect His Store From a Burgeoning Trend of Robberies. He Thought Wrong. Thursday the Good News: Treatable. The Bad News: For All Who Want or Need It. Addiction Epidemic, with Some Successes. Coordination and Communication.

Part six of six parts What if Maine had a computerized list of every painkiller prescription filled by pharmacies statewide?

The Race for Mayor: Training Welfare Recipients. Series: Get Up Close Editor's Note: Of Portland's Mayoral Candidates, Paired with Online Chats.

When Hamza Haadoow fled the civil war in Somalia in 1990, his life didn't get much better. He moved into a refugee camp in Kenya. There was little food and clean water, he said. Refugees slept on the ground. Security was limited. "I didn't think I'd last six months or a year," Haadoow said. "But I survived 10 years there on and off."

Vessel May Have Left the Channel.

The Portland Fire Department should have reported an accident that damaged the City of Portland IV fireboat, and there are indications the vessel was outside a marked channel when it occurred, Coast Guard officials said Thursday. The fireboat struck something underwater just north of Fort Gorges in Casco Bay shortly before sunset Saturday during what Fire Chief Fred LaMontagne described as a "navigation training" run.

Prescription Painkillers in Maine: A Cure with a Curse Experts: Efforts, the Epidemic has Worsened.

Ten years ago, Jon Hinck was a lawyer representing addicts in a class-action lawsuit against the maker of OxyContin. It was already clear that the little pills were much more addictive than the company claimed, and that Maine had a new drug abuse epidemic, Hinck said.

Prescription Painkillers in Maine: Painkiller Addiction. Series: Prescription Painkillers in Maine: A Cure That Came with a Curse

Joe Caron's painkiller habit destroyed his business and drove away his fiancee. But after reading this week about so many others who still are trapped in addiction, he feels like one of the fortunate ones.