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States take a gamble (NY Times) — It has been more than four decades since states first began putting numbers runners out of business by starting their own legal lotteries, which now yield them about $18 billion a year. Now several states are thinking about trying to plug budget gaps by profiting again from the optimism of their residents — by legalizing, licensing and taxing Internet gambling.

Nevada and the District of Columbia have already taken steps to authorize online poker, and state officials in Iowa have been studying the issue closely.

Lawmakers in New Jersey and California are redoubling their efforts to legalize it, bolstered by a recent Department of Justice decision that reversed the federal government’s longheld opposition to many forms of Internet gambling.

But as desperate as states are for new revenue, after four years of oftenpainful austerity, there are questions about just how big a jackpot they can expect from online gambling. The state of Iowa released a study last month that found that legalizing online poker might net the state between $3 million and $13 million a year, far less than private companies had estimated. The American Gaming Association, a casino industry trade group, has estimated that legalizing online poker would net roughly $2 billion a year in new tax revenues, a fraction of what states get from their lotteries.

Supporters of legalizing online poker in California estimate that it would net the state between $100 million and $250 million a year — a tidy sum, to be sure, but still only enough to put a small dent in the $9.2 billion budget shortfall California faces.

Still, advocates of online poker in California say that the state should not throw away a winning hand just because the pot is not big enough to solve all of its problems. “Two hundred and fifty million dollars buys you a lot of teachers,” said State Senator Lou Correa , a lawmaker from Orange County who sponsored one of the bills seeking to legalize online poker in California, which he thinks could net the state more than the estimates show. “Half a billion dollars buys you even more teachers. When we’re cutting social services to the poorest in our state, it buys you a lot of social services. The budget deficit is tremendous, but you take $500 million here, $500 million there, and pretty soon you’re talking serious money.”

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Effort to recall Wis. governor advances

BY MONICA DAVEY THE NEW YORK TIMES

Critics of Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin on Tuesday said they had collected more than 1 million signatures, or nearly twice as many as required, on petitions to recall Mr. Walker and force a new election State officials now begin the arduous and expensive process of studying the petitions for flaws and duplicated names, but leaders of the recall effort say the number of signatures is so large as to put any serious legal challenge out of reach.

Mr. Walker’s critics needed only 540,208 signatures, and had estimated that they would reach at least 720,000 — so the still larger number came as a surprise to many.

Barring a legal fight, Mr. Walker, a Republican who took office a year ago and set off a firestorm by curtailing benefits and collective bargaining rights for public workers, will face a new election in the late spring or early summer.

Nationally, only two governors have ever been removed through recall.

“This sends a message,” said Graeme Zielinski, a spokesman for the Wisconsin Democratic Party, who described the 1 million names as evidence that this was the largest signa-

Organizers of an effort to recall Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wis., say 1 million people have signed the petition (NEW YORK TIMES PHOTO).

ture drive for a recall effort in United States history.

Mr. Walker was scheduled to attend a fund-raiser in New York on Tuesday, but in an earlier interview he had said he believed a recall election now appeared inevitable, but that he thought he would ultimately keep his job.

On Tuesday, his campaign office issued a statement on his behalf about the petitions. “I look forward to talking to the people of Wisconsin about my continued promises to control government spending, balance the budget and hold the line on taxes,” Mr. Walker said. “In my first year in office, we did just that by eliminating a $3.6 billion budget deficit without raising taxes, all while the state added thousands of new

jobs. Instead of going back to the days of billion dollar budget deficits, double-digit tax increases and record job loss, I expect Wisconsin voters will stand with me and keep moving Wisconsin forward.”

In what was to be a jubilant, carefully orchestrated celebration in Madison, volunteers, including Democrats and union supporters, from all over the state planned later Tuesday afternoon to submit the petitions to the Government Accountability Board, the state agency that oversees elections.

With some fanfare, a truck was to carry the petitions — all 3,000 pounds of them — to the board’s offices.

Ryan Lawler, a board member for United Wisconsin, the group that led the two-

month signature collection effort, said the number of signers was a clear indication of the size of the emotions involved.

“Scott Walker and his supporters tried to demean and marginalize recall circulators, but in Wisconsin winter, an army of more than 30,000 Wisconsin born-and-bred recall volunteers took to street corners, malls, places of worship, dinner tables and sidewalks to take their state back,” he said.

Petitions were also submitted on Tuesday for recall elections of the lieutenant governor, Rebecca Kleefisch (845,000 signatures were gathered on hers), and four Republican state senators, including Scott Fitzgerald, the majority leader who helped pass Mr. Walker’s collective bargaining cuts over the protests of Democrats, who fled the state last year to block a vote.

Democrats, who are in the minority in the State Senate, 17 to 16, hope to seize at least one seat and take control. Nine recall elections last summer led to two Senate seats changing hands, but leaving Republicans in the majority.

Democrats had controlled both legislative chambers and the governor’s office before the election of 2010, when Republicans, including Mr. Walker, swept into office.

Millionaire Romney pays middle-class tax rate

BY MICHAEL D. SHEAR AND ASHLEY PARKER THE NEW YORK TIMES

FLORENCE, S.C. — Under new pressure to release his tax returns, Mitt Romney on Tuesday acknowledged that he pays an effective tax rate of about 15 percent because so much of his fortune comes from past investments.

“It’s probably closer to the 15 percent rate than anything,” Mr. Romney said. “Because my last 10 years, I’ve — my income comes overwhelmingly from investments made in the past, rather than ordinary income, or rather than earned annual income.”

The vast majority of the income Mr. Romney reported over 12 months in 2010 and ’11 was dividends from investments, capital gains on mutual funds and his post-retirement share of profits and invest-

ment returns from Bain Capital, the firm he once led. And Mr. Romney also noted that he made hundreds of thousands of dollars from speaking engagements.

“I got a little bit of income from my book, but I gave that all away,” Mr. Romney told reporters after an event here.

“And then I get speakers’ fees from time to time, but not very much.”

Financial disclosure forms that candidates are required to file annually shows that Mr. Romney earned $374,327.62 in speakers’ fees from February of 2010 to February of 2011, at an average of $41,592 per speech.

President Obama paid an effective federal tax rate of just over 26 percent on his 2010 returns, the most recent available. The top income tax rate is 35 percent.

The disclosure is likely to

cement Mr. Romney’s place as an unwilling figurehead in the intensifying national debate over taxation and income inequality. By his own admission, Mr. Romney ranks among the tiny percentage of very wealthy Americans who have benefitted enormously from a broad shift in federal tax policy that began in the 1990s and accelerated under President George W. Bush, in which income from investments began to be taxed at much lower levels than the wages and salaries that constitute most earnings for the vast majority of people.

At the White House Tuesday, the president’s spokesman said Mr. Romney’s acknowledgement that he pays 15 percent reveals a basic unfairness in the tax code that Mr. Obama is concerned about.

“This only illuminates what

he believes is an issue, which is that everybody who’s working hard ought to pay their fair share,” said the spokesman, Jay Carney. “That includes millionaires who might be paying an effective tax rate of 15 percent when folks making $50,000 or $75,000 or $100,000 a year are paying much more.”

Mr. Carney said he had not discussed Mr. Romney’s tax rate with Mr. Obama, but that the president believed the tax laws should be changed.

“We’ve had a lot of debates about it already with Congress, and I assume we’ll have a debate about it this year once the Republicans choose their nominee,” Mr. Carney said.

The president’s spokesman said that the 15 percent tax rate reveals unfairness in the tax code, and it threatened to reignite the debate over how carried interest is taxed.

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OccupyMaine protesters given their day in court Attorney: Hearing before a superior court judge is scheduled for Jan. 24

BY MATTHEW ARCO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

A protest group fighting to stay in Portland’s Lincoln Park will have their day in court.

The group’s attorney announced Tuesday a hearing before a superior court judge is set for Jan. 24, giving protesters with OccupyMaine an opportunity to plead their case, which they filed on Dec. 19.

They claim city officials are infringing on their First Amendment rights by ordering them to leave Lincoln Park. The city argues protesters failed to establish in their lawsuit that camping in a public park is a constitutionally protected form of speech or expression.

The date was set sometime following a meeting with attorneys from both sides of the lawsuit behind closed doors with a judge last week, officials said.

It was announced just as OccupyMaine filed its response in court to the city’s initial filing, in which the protest group continues to argue that the state and federal constitutions not only grant them the freedom to protest, but don’t put limits on the form of protest.

“Astoundingly, (the city of Portland) asserts that (protesters) are merely camping and living in Lincoln Park,” reads a court filing. “They city suggests that because (protesters) are not continuously marching around the park handing around leaflets, that the federal and state constitutions do not afford them any protections.”

Members of the public walk past a supply tent in the OccupyMaine encampment Tuesday. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

John Branson, the attorney representing the protesters, said the upcoming court appearance could play a big part in whether the case moves forward or not.

He said the hearing will “include live testimony

and documentary evidence in addition to oral argument by counsel on the legal and factual issues.”

A city official declined to comment on Branson’s most recent court filing, saying they needed additional time to review the document.

City: Police didn’t laugh at OccupyMaine over stolen signs

BY MATTHEW ARCO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

City officials disputed claims Tuesday made by OccupyMaine protesters about police officers chuckling when responding to a complaint that someone stole the group’s signs.

The reaction came after a protester, Jennifer Rose, recently said she was taken aback by police response to her attempt at reporting the theft of nearly all of OccupyMaine’s signs over the weekend.

Rose was one of three people who told police Sunday about 40 signs that were taken from the group’s Lincoln Park encampment. Officers on duty wouldn’t allow her to file a police report, she said.

Instead, they told her no crime was committed because protesters were in the park illegally and that the signs had no monetary value. Anything left in the park becomes part of the public domain, Rose said she was told.

“The person at the desk, basically, he chuckled at us,” Rose told The Portland Daily Sun Tuesday.

“The lieutenant came down and said, ‘Well, you guys are in the park illegally, without a permit, so whatever citizen decided to come take

them down had the right to a crime had been committed do it because … it’s public because there was not clear domain,’” she continued. “I ownership or clear value of the wanted to cry when I heard stolen items, officials said. the reaction of the police offi“Who owns the property and cers.” what value you can ascribe to Claims of officers laughing it, those are the elements to a at the protesters prompted crime if we’re going to pursue the department’s top com(a case),” said Michael Saumander and a city hall official schuck, Portland’s acting police to review video of the interacchief. tion.

Sauschuck added that in the “I watched the tape,” said conversation between his offiNicole Clegg, a city spokescers and the protesters there woman. “The conversation was no laughter, saying, “I was very respectful, and any want to make sure that is very attempts to characterize it About two dozen tents remain in Lincoln Park at the OccupyMaine encamp- clear.” otherwise is not factual.” ment. Police say they were not able to establish a crime had been commit- He said the department She added that an attorney ted after learning that signs went missing from the camp over the weekend. would not release the video, representing OccupyMaine (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO) citing Maine state privacy was later told that the group laws and deferring additional “It was a considerable amount of could file a police report if comments to the department’s stuff, you would need a pickup truck they establish ownership of the signs attorney. to take it all away,” Rose said. “They and send someone to the police departJohn Branson, the attorney reprecut down every single piece of twine, ment to act as representative for the senting OccupyMaine, said he was every single piece of piece of rope that entire group. contacted by Sauschuck directly was holding up the signs. The only Rose said the stolen items included during the week. thing that was left were the signs that large wooden signs, including six that He explained Sauschuck told him the city said we have to have up, the were made by a University of Southhow the group could file a report. exit signs marking the exits of the ern Maine art professor, giant ban“I give the police credit for reaching park.” ners and an American flag — to name out,” said Branson, adding he would Police were not able to establish a few items. relay the information to his clients.

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Don’t do it, Bibi PARIS — A U.S. ambassador in Europe was recently asked by an Israeli ambassador what could be done to improve the lousy relations between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Obama. He replied: “Every once in a while, say thank you.”

The American ambassador added a couple of other thoughts. “Maybe, once in a while, ask the president if there’s anything you can do for him. And above all stay out of our election-year politics.”

This sharp riposte reflects Obama’s fury at several things: the way Netanyahu has gone over his head to a Republicandominated Congress where he is a darling; Netanyahu’s ingratitude for solid U.S. support, including the veto of an anti-settlements resolution at the United Nations last year and opposition to the unilateral Palestinian pursuit of ––––– statehood; the delaying tactics The New York of Netanyahu reflecting his conviction Obama is likely a Times one-term president; and Netanyahu’s refusal to pause a second time in settlement building for the sake of peace negotiations.

I would add a further piece of advice to Netanyahu if he cares about his dysfunctional relationship with Obama — and he should because Israelis know the United States matters and might be disinclined to re-elect a man who has poisoned relations

Roger Cohen

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A decade later, city’s housing shortage remains unresolved “Portland is in the midst of a housing shortage. Rents and purchase prices are escalating. Residents are struggling with housing costs and many households have been forced to move to other municipalities.”

It would be hard to find anyone in the city who could credibly disagree with these words. After all, thousands of people have lost their homes in the foreclosure crisis.

Apartment-hunters need to plan weeks in advance to find a new place to live. The city’s homeless shelters are overflowing.

The good news is that the quote above comes from the city’s comprehensive plan, as an introduction to new policies designed to alleviate our housing shortage.

The bad news is that these sentences were written a full decade ago. For the past ten years, Portland’s housing shortages have gone from bad to worse — and the city’s politicians have been completely impotent to do anything about it.

One stated goal from the city’s 2002 housing plan is that half of all new housing built in Cumberland County should be built within the city limits of Portland. This would help slow down sprawl, and

Christian MilNeil ––––– Guest Columnist ensure that renters and homebuyers would have more choices (and lower prices) for housing in the city.

By that measure, the plan has been a miserable failure. During the past decade, 90 percent of residential growth in Cumberland County happened outside of the city of Portland, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

This means that region’s residents have continued their exodus to suburbs like Gorham and Scarborough, further exacerbating the problems that the new Housing Plan was intended to avoid: more commuter traffic clogging neighborhood streets, more farms and forestland lost to development in formerly rural communities, fewer customers for neighborhood small businesses, and a regional economy increasingly vulnerable to oil dependency and foreclosures.

You might think that the tide might have turned in 2008, when the beginning of the foreclosure crisis and high gas prices made living in the suburbs completely untenable for hundreds of Maine households. These factors combined to create extraordinarily high demand for affordable rental housing near jobs in places like downtown Portland.

Unfortunately, Portland’s byzantine zoning codes, parking requirements, and other regulations made it impossible for private-sector developers to respond to our housing needs. Building permit data show that the city of Portland fell even further behind in the post-bubble period: Of roughly 1,500 new homes and apartments built county-wide since the end of 2008, fewer than 100 have been built inside the city limits (and most of those required state housing subsidies, at considerable taxpayer expense).

The 2002 Housing Plan is full of good ideas and intentions. The problem is that only a scant handful of those ideas and intentions have actually been implemented see MILNEIL page 5

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Super Bowl eats: Another pigskin pigout?

It has been a longstanding quandary of sorts to question why the official "Holidays" don't extend out to the Monday after the Super Bowl. The part of the "Holidays" I'm referring to is the feeding frenzy that goes along with each family dinner, office party, open house or gathering of friends that is clustered between Thanksgiving night and final New Year's Day mimosa.

The overindulgence of drinking too many cosmos and eating crappy food doesn't stop when the last piece of confetti hits the ground in Time Square, it just slows down to a food coma-induced crawl and then BAM! it's football Sunday, and smack in the middle of the playoffs to boot.

So many of us have woken up these past three Mondays and diligently begun once again counting precious Weight Watchers points, shunning a hamburger bun in favor of a lettuce leaf and chugging gallons of water in

Natalie Ladd ––––– What It’s Like hopes of a healthier, svelter and more attractive physique. New gym memberships peak and that neglected elliptical in the basement gets dusted off, oiled, and sees some usage for the first time in months. Intentions are good, weight loss goals are clear, and for most of this past December's resoluters, motivation is high. It all sounds like a game plan and as a collective whole, we truly want to flex our will-power fulled muscles for the long haul.

But here in New England, we'd rather sacrifice our committed fitness efforts if it means the Patriots make it

to, and win, the Super Bowl.

Yes, the exercise and diet regime are banished to the sidelines faster than a fourth-down fumbling receiver, and the hunger pains felt Wednesday afternoon are long forgotten as we gather at the home of our now-favorite friend with the best, biggest and newest TV to watch the game.

Like an extension of the holidays, the spread is usually filled with traditional foods fitting the nature of the event. We all love the standard fare: wings, pizza, subs, chips, dips and cold beer. Or maybe your football parties are a bit more upscale like a playoff game I went to a few years ago. It was catered and featured a lavish cheese and smoked seafood display, carving stations and opulent sauces, a chocolate fountain, and a deep chest of cold beer, only this time, it was imported and I couldn't twist the top off. Needless to say, we lost that game because there's something wrong with a foot-

ball party that has a dress code.

Maybe I'm using this column (and the New England Patriots) as an excuse for why I haven't lost any weight, gone back to Zumba or started the Couch-to-5K running program this year, but I know I'm in great company. Last week we had a party at New Guy's house that was supposed to be just three other people. Through the mixed blessing of Facebook, it turned out to be a full-blown family reunion, and we ate massive amounts of shrimp, chips and dips, stuffed shells, garlic bread, toffee brownie bars, and, of course, beer. On the surface, this isn't such a bad thing, but we started eating before the coin toss, and were still eating when Tebow knelt to thank the Big Guy, despite the outcome.

This week, we're heading over to my BFF and Attorney's house. Not see LADD page 6

Planning board volunteers often nitpick housing proposals MILNEIL from page 4

or embraced in City Hall.

To take a few examples: the 2002 Housing Plan called for the Portland Housing Authority (PHA) “to become more active in development of more housing.” The PHA owns abundant vacant land and empty parking lots in close-in neighborhoods like the West End and East Bayside, and it also possesses the ability to sell bonds to finance new development.

Yet the PHA hasn’t built a single new apartment in years, and its hidebound management has zero inclination to try.

Also problematic is how the city’s housing plans — along with the city staff, planning board volunteers, and political leaders — often fail to consider the basic economics of housing. Homebuilders aren’t building new homes in Portland because it’s still

cheaper and less of a bureaucratic hassle for them to build homes in the suburbs — even with all of the expenses of high gas prices and uncertain mortgage markets.

The city has made marginal efforts to make it more economical to build new homes here (reducing parking requirements, for instance) but there’s still a long way to go before a home built in Portland can be cost-competitive with a home built in Gray or Gorham.

When the city is lucky enough to get a proposal for new housing, the city’s Planning Board volunteers typically seem more interested in spitefully nitpicking through the zoning codes than they are in helping developers meet the city’s housing goals.

The Board’s recent review of an embattled MaineHousing project in the West End is a great example

of this: instead of helping to reduce the project’s costs and increase the number of apartments that would be available, the Board instead forced that the nonprofit developers spend a quarter million dollars on an unnecessary underground parking garage (see “Housing Scarcity An Artificially Created Problem,” my Nov. 16 column).

With a new mayor and new City Council committees, maybe the city will finally find the resolve to do something meaningful about its ten-year-old housing shortage. And if they can’t, I propose that the Oxford Street homeless shelter should be allowed to expand into the comfortable, voluminous City Council chambers.

(Christian MilNeil is a blogger at “The Vigorous North: A field guide to the wilderness areas of American cities,” www.vigorousnorth.com.)

Netanyahu is tempted to bomb Iran in the next several months COHEN from page 4

with Washington. That advice is: Do not attack Iran this spring or summer.

Netanyahu is tempted to bomb Iran in the next several months to set back its opaque nuclear program and — despite a call from Obama last Thursday and messages from Defense Secretary Leon Panetta — has declined to reassure the United States that he will not. Several factors, Iranian and American, incline Netanyahu to move soon.

The first is the Israeli judgment that Iran is close to “irreversibility” in its pursuit of the various elements — from uranium enrichment to trigger mechanisms — needed for a nuclear warhead. The start of enrichment at the Fordow underground facility near Qum intensified these concerns, as has Iran’s bellicose tone in response to threatened oil sanctions.

Then there is the American political calculus. An Israeli strike a few months before the U.S. election in November would stymie Obama. He would be in no position to express anger given the clout of the pro-Israel lobby, the important Jewish vote in Florida and the fulsome support any Israeli bombing would get from the Republican contender — probably Mitt Romney.

By contrast, a re-elected Obama would, as a second-term president, have room to mark his displeasure if Israel was to go it alone. Because awareness

is growing that Obama could indeed win, these considerations carry weight in Jerusalem.

Netanyahu has always portrayed himself as the man standing between Iran and a bomb. A hawk, he has a taste for the dramatic. Israel, in such issues, has already gone it alone once, when it bombed a Syrian nuclear facility in 2007. At this stage, the U.S. and Israeli triggers appear distinct — with Panetta saying “our red line to Iran is, do not develop a nuclear weapon” whereas the Israelis see irreversible nuclear capability as unacceptable even if a weapon is not being made. In that discrepancy lurks danger.

Don’t go there, Mr. Netanyahu. It would be a terrible mistake. Choosing between the United States and Iran is a no-brainer. One is a great power and essential friend. The other is a blustering, combustible society that’s been tinkering with a nuclear program for decades and whose closest regional ally, Syria, is on the brink.

Israel’s dream is that the United States will do the bombing for or in conjunction with it — one reason for the Israeli refusal to clarify its intentions. But, short of an outrageous Iranian provocation such as blocking the Strait of Hormuz, that’s not going to happen before November.

In an election year, with U.S. intelligence convinced Iran is not yet building a bomb, Obama will not send oil prices soaring and the Muslim world

into another bout of anti-American rage. A lot of his presidency has been precisely about extraction from war and easing of Islamic hostility.

Netanyahu did say this past weekend that “for the first time” he saw some “wobble” in Iran as a result of sanctions. But he also called for “a clear statement” that the U.S. would “act militarily” if sanctions fail.

Meanwhile, in a good-cop-bad-cop routine, his vice prime minister was grumbling that U.S. sanctions had been disappointing.

Here’s the bottom line: an Israeli attack unites Iran in fury, locks in the Islamic Republic for a generation, cements the Syrian regime, radicalizes the Arab world at a moment of delicate transition, ignites Hezbollah on the Lebanese border, boosts Hamas, endangers U.S. troops in the region, sparks terrorism, propels oil skyward, triggers a possible regional war, offers a lifeline to Iran just as Europe is about to stop buying its oil, adds a Persian to the Arab vendetta against Israel, and may at best set back Iran’s nuclear ambitions a couple of years.

Sound promising?

Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, will visit Israel soon. Netanyahu should listen, take his finger off the Iranian trigger — and realize Israel’s fate hinges more on Ramallah than Tehran.

(You can follow Roger Cohen on Twitter at twitter. com/nytimescohen.)

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Conservative group unveils Maine housing agency’s vendors list Agency defends its expenses; group says lavish destinations, political recipients raise questions

BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. Opryland Hotel Convention Center in Nashville, Tenn. Funtown/Splashtown USA. A vendor list from the Maine State Housing Authority, released Tuesday by the conservative Maine Heritage Policy Center of Portland, included posh resort destinations and “hundreds of organizations and businesses that seem to stray far from MSHA’s mission to provide affordable housing to impoverished Mainers,” the center alleged in a report reminiscent of its probe a year ago of the Maine Turnpike Authority.

A spokeswoman for the Maine State Housing Authority, a funding source for affordable housing, including several affordable housing projects in Portland, said Tuesday the agency is heavily audited and has received praise from oversight agencies, including the U.S. Department of Treasury. Companies on its vendors list often are used to arrange conferences, training sessions and special events well within the purview of the agency, she said.

“A lot of these (vendor destinations) would be for workshops and training, the accountants go for training sessions,” said Deborah Turcotte, MaineHousing public information manager.

But Lance Dutson, CEO of the Maine Heritage Policy Center, said a pattern seems to be repeating itself with MaineHousing which he detected a year ago, when the conservative think tank released payroll and spending information about the Maine Turnpike Authority — an agency which became enmeshed in a spending scandal culminating in the resignation of its executive director.

“The pattern with Maine Turnpike Authority including the reaction is so similar” to what is happening now with MaineHousing, Dutson said.

A month after the Maine Heritage Policy Center released payroll and spending information about the Maine Turnpike Authority, and three months after the Legislature’s Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability released a report questioning spending at the Turnpike Authority, Paul Violette, the longtime executive director of the Authority, resigned in March 2011.

“Exorbitant salary increases, indiscriminate bonuses, and questionable expenditures on luxury hotels and

hundreds of items outside of the scope of their mission — this is almost the exact pattern we saw with the Maine Turnpike Authority,” Dutson said in a press release.

Turcotte said MaineHousing officials talked with the center, as recently as last week, and noted that the agency “has been working with them” on gathering and releasing the information requested.

“They agreed to that, that we would give them the vendors list first. We have been working to meet the FOIA for them,” she said, referring to the Freedom of Information Act, the law the center used to acquire vendor information.

Sam Adolphsen wrote the article on MaineHousing for The Maine Wire (TheMaineWire.com), an online news site and “project of the Maine Heritage Policy Center.”

The Maine State Housing Authority vendor list “contains hundreds of luxury hotels and bed and breakfast inns, including Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, the Ritz-Carlton in Boston, the Woodstock Inn in Vermont, the Caribe Royal in Orlando, and many more.

Also included on the list are professional DJs, entertainers, a massage therapist, martial arts instructors, ski resorts, water parks, and a magician,” the center reported in a press release promoting Adolphsen’s online article.

Dutson said Tuesday’s exposé on MaineHousing already has garnered attention.

“Our goal is not to uncover this nonsense, our goal is to give the people of Maine a tool to assess how these agencies are being run,” Dutson said in an interview.

“It’s hard to look at that list and think that the agency is being run with the concern for being frugal or conscientious with expenditures,” Dutson said.

But Turcotte said context about the vendors sheds more light on the reason they were selected. For example, Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas could be the destination for MaineHousing divisions when they attend conferences on topics such as bonds, affordable housing and construction.

Maine Housing was able to give corporate rates for many vendors, such as the Portland Pirates and Sunday River Ski Resort; employees then would pay MaineHousing for the tickets they acquired at a discount, she explained. see VENDORS page 8

Page 8 — THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Maine Port Authority to extend lease at city port The weekly cargo service at the port

BY CASEY CONLEY THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN provides part-time work to between 15 and 17 people, Humeniuk said yesterThe Maine Port Authority has day. announced plans to extend its lease Terms of the port authority’s current at the city-owned International lease, which began in 2009, called for Marine Terminal for another five the city to receive 33 percent of net years. revenues at the port. But, as expected, The new agreement, which takes revenues from shipping operations effect July 1 and extends through never exceeded costs. That arrangeJune 30, 2017, includes a revised ment shielded the agency from rent revenue-sharing model that could payments during the renovation and yield the city up to $120,000 per year ongoing efforts to attract new cargo cliduring the life of the contract. ents, Henshaw said.

John Henshaw, head of the port The new contract calls for the port authority, said yesterday that authority to pay 25 percent of its gross weekly freight service between Portrevenues up to a $120,000 cap to the land, Boston and Halifax has been city for each year of the lease. That “very successful,” and that he hoped upper cap would be revised each year to land another weekly run in 2012. based on inflation.

“What we’d like to do, and we have “The lease was designed … both on had interest from shippers in Maine, our part and port authority’s part, to is to operate a second service to go see IMT’s cargo shipping increase,” down to a port in New York or New Shipping containers loaded with wood pulp await transport to New York from the International Marine Termi- said city spokeswoman Nicole Clegg.

Jersey in addition to Halifax,” said nal on Commercial Street. (CASEY CONLEY FILE PHOTO) “We both benefit” from the recent Henshaw. “That’s the next goal we improvements at the port, which in are working towards. That would ers, 38 of which were import and 30 were export. turn are expected to increase freight volumes, she obviously give a lot more options to shippers.”

“That kind of balance is what really makes this added.

Indeed, there finally seems to be some momenservice viable,” he said.

John Suczynski, the chief operating officer of tum at the West Commercial Street port after years According to documents filed with City Hall, the White Rock Distilleries, said the company imports when cargo service came and went.

IMT lost about $463,000 in fiscal year 2011 with weekly shipments of alcohol from as far away as The port authority is close to wrapping up a $5 revenues of $53,711. But most of those losses were France and Scotland through the IMT. White Rock’s million renovation at the facility that will expand tied to port maintenance, employee salaries, and imports McClelland’s scotch and has created several and reinforce the cargo loading area, add lighting investments in the facility — including $105,000 popular vodka brands, including Pinnacle and Three and remove the outdated blue terminal building, spent on crane improvements.

Olives, which it has since sold. among other things.

“It’s been picking up, it’s going good,” said Jack He says using the Portland facility is “marginThe agency has also signed up a wide range of cliHumeniuk, a representative of the local longshoreally” cheaper than shipping through Canada or New ents, including L.L. Bean, White Rock Distilleries, man’s union. “(Maine Port Authority) knew in the York, where the product had to make the last leg of and a half-dozen paper mills for its weekly cargo serbeginning they were going to have to hang in there, the journey via truck. In this case, the cargo is still vice, which is operated by American Feeder Lines. and they have, and it’s actually picking up and doing trucked to Lewiston but the journey is much shorter.

That service, which connects Portland with major well.”

“We are satisfied with it,” Suczynski said yesterports around the world via Halifax, began in July.

The $5 million renovations were designed to make day. “It’s been helpful and more efficient for us.”

Most important of all, the service offers connecfreight operations at the facility more efficient, City councilors are expected to hear a presentations with some of the world’s largest shippers, which will hopefully lower costs and attract more tion from Henshaw at tonight’s council meeting, but including Hapaq-Lloyd and Maersk, among others. clients. “Those savings will be passed on to the users are not required to take action on the lease extenFor instance, during the last week in December, of the port, which are basically Maine businesses,” sion. The board meets at 7 p.m. at City Hall.

Henshaw said the facility moved 68 cargo containhe said.

Agencies such as Efficiency Maine due to face scrutiny from the policy center VENDORS from page 7

Maine Housing had a softball team, “just like a number of state agencies had a softball team,” which explains the Maine Amateur Softball Association as a vendor, Turcotte said.

Healing Hands Therapeutic Massage of Belgrade would have been used for annual all-staff days, when one of the divisions at Maine Housing would put on a program to explain topics such as division roles and personal development. These staff days included 10-minute shoulder massages, Turcotte explained.

Adolphsen’s article highlighted the New Iowans Program, “a project of The Iowa Center for Immigrant Leadership and Integration (ICILI) at the University of Northern Iowa.”

“The program ‘guides and prepares Iowa communities and businesses as they accommodate immigrant and refugee newcomers living and working in Iowa,’” Adophsen wrote. “Why the Maine State Housing Authority is writing checks to a group focused on the economic vitality of Iowa is a detail left unexplained by MSHA, although a passage from MSHA Director Dale McCormick’s biography may suggest a link: ‘Dale McCormick’s family moved to Sigourney, Iowa, in 1955; she graduated from Sigourney High School in 1965, and earned a BA and a teach-

“We live in a zero-sum budget world in Maine right now. I’m sure that everybody wants to go to conferences in Orlando and Las Vegas.” — Lance Dutson, CEO of the Maine Heritage Policy Center

“A number of the hotels that are listed were for either training or for workshops or conferences.”

— Deborah Turcotte, MaineHousing spokeswoman

ing certificate from the University of Iowa in 1970.’”

Turcotte said a $183 expenditure for education and training with the New Iowans Program is dated December 2002, prior to McCormick’s arrival at Maine Housing.

“MaineHousing has apparently written checks to a series of political organizations as well. Included on the list are the left-wing political activist groups EqualityMaine, Maine Equal Justice Partners and the Sierra Club,” the article states.

Turcotte said she was looking into why EqualityMaine and the Sierra Club were included on the list.

Questioning “extraneous expenses,” Dutson said, “We live in a zero-sum budget world in Maine right now. I’m sure that everybody wants to go to conferences in Orlando and Las Vegas.”

Turcotte explained, “A number of the hotels that are listed were for either training or for workshops or conferences. For example, the one in Miami Beach, Fla. (Wyndham Miami Beach Resort), the company

that we have our computers with, each year they have a training.”

“We get about eight audits a year from the agencies that we do business with, the federal agencies,” Turcotte added.

No problems related to vendors have been highlighted, she said.

A couple of weeks ago, the U.S. Department of Treasury issued a notice about a “compliance review” of implementation of federal stimulus funds

by MaineHousing. The reviewers were “grateful for well ordered files and responsiveness.”

“They did not identify any noncompliance,” Turcotte said.

Dutson said, “We will continue these kinds of probes,” noting that agencies such as Efficiency Maine will face scrutiny from the center.

Meanwhile, he said the center will push for the release of details about the MaineHousing vendors.

“This information has created more questions than it has answers,” he said.

THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Wednesday, January 18, 2012— Page 9

Don’t miss this compelling story written by Portland native Nancy Polito

Community Housing of Maine, a nonprofit organization that serves homeless and special needs populations and provides workforce housing, is proposing 30 rental units for the elderly at 81 Danforth St..

An artist’s rendering of the new development is shown. (COURTESY IMAGE)

Danforth on High elderly housing project slated for historic preservation board’s fresh look today

BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Amid scrutiny of publicly funded housing in Maine, a former condominium project that’s now slated to be elderly housing in Portland will face a review by Portland’s historic preservation board today.

Community Housing of Maine, a nonprofit organization that serves homeless and special needs populations and provides workforce housing, is proposing 30 rental units for the elderly at 81 Danforth St., a lot at the northeast corner of Danforth and High streets.

Originally, Peter Bass of Random Orbit received approval in 2008 to build a four-story, 26-unit condo complex. But the project never materialized.

“Given a subsequent downturn in the real estate market, the project was never commenced,” states a letter to the historic preservation board by Historic Preservation Program Manager Deb Andrews.

“Now, Community Housing of Maine (CHOM) is proposing to acquire the property from Random Orbit and construct the previously approved project — with some design modifications that reflect a change in housing type, tenant mix and number of units,” Andrews reported. “Originally planned as 26 market-rate condominiums, Community Housing of Maine is proposing 30 rental units for the elderly.”

Changes in the design include a fourth floor of units in lieu of a mezzanine level for the third floor; a reduced setback, with the building being moved 5 feet closer to High Street and nearly a foot and a half closer to Danforth Street; and a raised tower to accommodate an elevator and stair tower to reach the fourth floor, according to Andrew’s letter to the board.

According to the State of Maine 2011 low-income housing tax credit

application, the Danforth on High development is on a waiting list for a $646,659 tax credit, a subsidy in the form of a federal tax credit to developers of affordable rental housing. The tax credits provide approximately $20 million annually in subsidy, according to the Maine State Housing Authority, which administers the credit. Community Housing of Maine applied for the $646,659 subsidy for Danforth on High.

Some public officials, including Maine State Treasurer Bruce Poliquin, have questioned the amount of public funds allocated to MaineHousing projects. Elm Terrace, a proposed 38-unit low-income housing complex located near Danforth on High, recently received state approval to proceed, but at a lower per-unit cost than originally budgeted.

Poliquin has pushed for lower costs per unit on MaineHousing projects.

“During the past several years, Maine State Housing Authority (MSHA) has funneled federal, state, and local tax dollars to finance the construction of 1,100-square-foot low-income apartments costing up to $292,000 each,” Poliquin wrote in a recent statement. “Scrutiny by the new MSHA board stalled the Elm Terrace units in downtown Portland once budgeted at $314,000 each. In December, the MSHA executive director approved the 38 Elm Terrace units at a cost to taxpayers of $265,000 per apartment. As we start the New Year, the MSHA board will continue to push the staff to build a larger number of less costly apartments rather than a smaller number of expensive units.

This new focus will help the thousands of homeless and greatly disadvantaged Maine families get off the waiting list and into safe, warm apartments. The new strategy will also be fair to the taxpayers who pay the bills.” see HOUSING page 13

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18).

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). If you’re tired, you’ll also be sensitive and too easily disillusioned. So get plenty of sleep. Your faith in others will be restored along with your energy levels.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Jan. 18).

You’ll be a dynamo over the next 10 weeks as you advance projects that have to do with writing, speaking and selling. The work you do and the shrewdness of your choices will help you make a considerable and favorable difference in your financial picture. Friends connect you with love and money in June. Gemini and Pisces adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 2, 12, 3, 15 and 19.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). There will be progress on the relationship front. You recognize the value others bring to your life, and you know how important it is to keep good people around you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Your creative and intellectual powers will be highlighted. You could be responsible for beginning a tradition or inventing something that will be of great use to your loved ones for years to come.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You’ll be an excellent judge of just how another person would most like to be acknowledged. You will show your appreciation in a purposeful manner, either in public, in private or in writing.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’ll know you’re surrounded by good people when you find yourself thinking of them when they are not around.

You’ll look forward to seeing them again and will enjoy making plans to do so.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You will feel a strong connection to a fellow fire sign (Aries or Sagittarius), and you will be enriched by what you give to this person. Offer your support, share information and be a good listener.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You will be instrumental in helping another person to grow. You’ll connect this person to people and projects that are out of the ordinary. You’ll build links and a strong sense of community.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You’ll actively seek new input from the world.

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THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Wednesday, January 18, 2012— Page 11

––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Wednesday, Jan. 18, the 18th day of 2012. There are 348 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 18, 1862, the 10th president of the United States, John Tyler, died in Richmond, Va., at age 71, shortly before he could take his seat as an elected member of the Confederate Congress.

On this date: In 1778, English navigator James Cook reached the present-day Hawaiian Islands, which he named the “Sandwich Islands.”

In 1871, William I of Prussia was proclaimed German emperor in Versailles (vehr-SY’), France.

In 1911, the first landing of an aircraft on a ship took place as pilot Eugene B. Ely brought his Curtiss biplane in for a safe landing on the deck of the armored cruiser USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco Harbor.

In 1919, the Paris Peace Conference, held to negotiate peace treaties ending World War I, opened in Versailles (vehr-SY’), France.

In 1943, during World War II, the Soviets announced they’d broken through the long Nazi siege of Leningrad. (It was another year before the siege was fully lifted.) A wartime ban on the sale of pre-sliced bread in the U.S. — aimed at reducing bakeries’ demand for metal replacement parts — went into effect.

In 1949, Charles Ponzi, engineer of one of the most spectacular swindles in history, died destitute at a hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at age 66.

In 1952, Jerome “Curly” Howard of Three Stooges fame died in San Gabriel, Calif., at age 48.

In 1957, a trio of B-52’s completed the first nonstop, round-the-world flight by jet planes, landing at March Air Force Base in California after more than 45 hours aloft.

In 1967, Albert DeSalvo, who claimed to be the “Boston Strangler,” was convicted in Cambridge, Mass., of armed robbery, assault and sex offenses. (Sentenced to life, DeSalvo was killed in prison in 1973.)

In 1970, David Oman McKay, the ninth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died at the age of 96.

In 1988, a China Southwest Airlines Ilyushin 18 crashed while on approach to Chongqing Airport, killing all 108 people on board.

In 1991, financially strapped Eastern Airlines shut down after more than six decades in business. Former New York congressman Hamilton Fish Sr. died in Cold Spring, N.Y., at age 102.

One year ago: Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington for a four-day state visit; President Barack Obama welcomed him with a private dinner in the White House residence.

Today’s Birthdays: Movie director John Boorman is 79. Singer-songwriter Bobby Goldsboro is 71. Comedian-singer-musician Brett Hudson is 59. Actor-director Kevin Costner is 57. Country singer Mark Collie is 56. Actress Jane Horrocks is 48. Comedian Dave Attell is 47. Actor Jesse L. Martin is 43. Rock singer Jonathan Davis (Korn) is 41. Actor Derek Richardson is 36. Actor Jason Segel is 32. Actress Samantha Mumba is 29.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX Dear Annie: My girlfriend broke up with me in April because she wanted to date another guy. Over the summer, she sent me random emails and text messages about various things, a few of which I answered out of politeness.

In September, we both attended the funeral of a mutual friend. I let her know that I wasn’t totally over her, but I was doing OK in her presence. She then said that she had broken up with the other guy and that she missed all the things we did, still loved me and wanted a relationship.

A week later, she called to say that she had spoken to her counselor and that all she could offer me at this time was friendship. She then invited the other guy back into her life as “a friend.” But when I checked her Facebook page, I learned she had been having him over to her house every week.

I finally got angry, and we had a blowup. Now she says her counselor told her that “men can’t just be friends.” She emailed, telling me that we need to move on and that she hopes to see me at my upcoming school reunion.

I don’t want to see this woman again, ever. She used me and lied to me. She hurt me more the second time than she did the first. She has no business coming to my school reunion, as she never went to school there. Right now, if she approached me, there would be an angry scene. Am I wrong to feel this way?

-- Angered in California Dear Angered: You can’t help how you feel when you’ve been mistreated. This woman seems confused and a little selfish and, frankly, could benefit from spending some time without a man in her life. But try to channel your anger into something constructive. Live your life fully. Make new friends. Date other women. Stop looking at her Facebook page. You deserve better.

Dear Annie: My family recently had a big birthday bash for my father. My sister made a slide show that included photos

of my late wife but no photos of my current wife, even though we’ve been together for 12 years. Naturally, my wife feels hurt and claims that my sister made clear where she stands with my family. She also asked me not to confront my sister, saying it wouldn’t accomplish anything positive. My wife now wants to cancel future family gatherings where my sister will be present. This same sister caused all kinds of stressful problems with my late wife, and I don’t want to see that repeated. What can I do to mend my wife’s hurt feelings? -- Stuck in the Middle Dear Stuck: Explain to her that your sister behaved abominably to your first wife, too, which indicates she is possessive of you and jealous of your significant others. Please don’t avoid your parents and other siblings because one sister cannot control herself. Even though your wife doesn’t want a confrontation, we think your sister needs to know that her behavior is unacceptable. Tell her.

Dear Annie: I was appalled at your response to “Frustrated in Colorado,” whose racist mother-in-law will not accept her biracial adopted daughter, “Amanda,” and, worse, is now moving closer to their area. Why would you suggest that she give Grandma the opportunity to spend one more second with this 12-year-old child?

Amanda does not deserve to be in a position to hear more hurtful and ugly opinions from her grandmother. My advice would be to refuse any contact unless the mother-in-law promises to be warm and kind to her. If she cannot or will not make such a promise, let her son visit on his own time, but the wife and daughter have no obligation to do so. -- Disagree in Salem Dear Salem: Perhaps “warm” is expecting too much, but the parents should certainly insist that Mom treat the child with kindness and not make any cracks about her place in the family. And we hope that living closer will provide the motivation.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please e-mail your questions to: anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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Red Claws reschedule to allow fans to see New England Patriots game DAILY SUN STAFF REPORTS The Maine Red Claws basketball team announced that the game time for the Sunday, Jan. 22 game at the Portland Expo has been moved to noon from 5 p.m. to accommodate the New England Patriots AFC Championship football game at 3 p.m. To gear up for the AFC Championship game, Red Claws fans are encouraged to wear their Patriots gear to the Red Claws game, team owners said.

“Like everyone in Crustacean Nation, we are huge Patriots fans,” said Red Claws President and General Manager Jon Jennings. “It is going to be a great day for sports fans with the Red Claws at noon with plenty of time to get home to see the Patriots at 3.”

The Red Claws will face the BayHawks this Friday at the Portland Expo at 7 p.m. with the rematch now scheduled for Sunday at noon.

USM Juried Student Exhibition on display in Portland through Feb. 19 The annual University of Southern Maine Juried Student Exhibition, which opened to the public in USM’s Gorham Art Gallery last fall, will remain on display in Portland through Sunday, Feb. 19, in the Area Gallery of USM’s Woodbury Campus Center on the Portland campus, USM announced.

“This yearly event provides art students with the real-world experience of creating works of art that will be juried by professionals in Maine’s art community,” a USM press release stated. The exhibition is free and open to the public, during Area Gallery hours, 7 a.m.-10 p.m., Monday through Friday.

This year’s jurors were Joe Kievitt, USM’s 2011 Spring Artist-in-Residence; Deborah Wing-Sproul, who teaches at Maine College of Art and at the University of Maine; and Jane Bianco, assistant curator of the Farnsworth Art Museum.

For details, call Carolyn Eyler at 780-5008, or visit www.usm.maine.edu/gallery.

Architect: ‘There has to be a degree of quality that has to be maintained’ HOUSING from page 9

It’s unclear how this push for affordability in public housing may affect the Danforth on High development.

Even though this housing will be funded through the Maine State Housing Authority, “those qualities that are demanded by the historic preservation board” are expected to be kept intact, said David Lloyd, architect with Archetype handling the design of the project.

“There has to be a degree of quality that has to be maintained,” Lloyd said. “There’s not going to be any stripping down or lowering of quality.”

Andrews said she could not comment on the financial aspects of the project.

“We review it for conformance with the standards of the city’s historic preservation ordinance,” she said.

“It’s very similar to what was previously approved,” Andrews said of Danforth on High, but noted that approvals lapsed and the design was revised, prompting a fresh review, first by the historic preservation board and then by planning board.

Lloyd described “a good working session” with the historic preservation board when the project was approved for condominiums. “In the redesign, we had to add some units and we had to do some cost containment,” he said.

The historic preservation board meets today at 5 p.m. in Room 209, second floor, City Hall.

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Wednesday, Jan. 18 Atlantic Salmon Presentation 7 p.m. John R.J. Burrows, director of New England Programs for the Atlantic Salmon Federation will speak on “Atlantic Salmon Restoration — Successes and Challenges,” at the monthly meeting of the Saco River Salmon Club. 7 p.m. meeting, 7:30 presentation at Cabela’s on Hagis Parkway, Scarborough. Free. http:// www.sacosalmon.com/

‘Warriors Don’t Cry’

‘The Fairy’ 6:30 p.m. Movies at the Museum, “The Fairy,” Portland Museum of Art. Friday, Jan. 20, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, Jan. 21, 2 p.m.; Sunday, Jan. 22, 2 p.m.

NR. www.portlandmuseum. org/events

‘The Preservation of Earth’ 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Constellation Gallery artist Joanne Fitzpatrick will be providing a free interactive demonstration of the process she employs for the preservation of flowers and leaves, an integral part of her artistic avocation “The Preservation of Earth.” Materials for attendees are provided free of charge. Light refreshments provided.

7:30 p.m. “Portland Ovations in collaboration with NAACP-Portland presents ‘Warriors Don’t Cry,’ a powerful one-woman play inspired by the awardwinning memoir of the same title by Dr. Melba Pattillo Beals at Hannaford Hall, USM Portland. ‘Warriors Don’t Cry’ Film: Future Shorts stars Almeria Campbell and recounts Pop-Up Film Fesival the courageous story of 15-year-old 7:30 p.m.

SPACE Gallery.

Melba, who endures violence and dis“The Future Shorts Festival is crimination as she and eight other the biggest pop up film festiAfrican-American students integrate val of its kind, showcasing the Little Rock, Arkansas’ Central High most exciting short films from School. Melba and her fellow studentaround the world. Anyone, anywarriors — known as the Little Rock where can set up a screening, Nine — captured the world’s attenforming a massive network of tion in 1957 as they struggled and cinematic events and becoming triumphed in pursuit of equal educa- Cirque, dance and circus acrobatics collide when Portland Ovations presents Australia’s internationally acclaimed nouveau part of a powerful global comtion. Themes of fear and courage, cirque troupe CiRCA at the Westbrook Performing Arts Center, Westbrook Middle School on Thursday, Feb. 2, at 7:30 p.m. munity.” $8/$6 for SPACE memisolation and community, education, (COURTESY PHOTO) bers and students with ID. www. history, the family and the nation all space538.org/events.php Story Telling Circle come alive through Campbell’s compelling portrayal 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. “Join storyteller Deena R. Weinstein of 21 characters. A preview to the performance will Saturday, Jan. 21 to enjoy a cozy evening while discovering the delight of take place during the NAACP’s 31st Annual Martin telling and being told stories. Gather at 6:30 to schmooze Luther King, Jr. Observance Breakfast Celebration at (become acquainted) and snack. This month’s theme will be the Holiday Inn By The Bay on Jan. 16. Ovations OffWings of Winter with Maine Audubon tales of animals. Perhaps you’ve had an adventure with a stage will present a Pre-Performance Lecture Strug9 a.m. Wings of Winter with Maine Audubon. “Join this pet, a wild critter, a raven, or Bigfoot (!) in the snowy woods gles for Civil Rights: Local Stories on Jan. 18 at 6:30 annual field trip to several of Greater Portland’s birding hot or hot desert. Take us along through your story! Share up p.m. at Hannaford Hall, USM Portland. Students from spots. Starting at Back Cove, we’ll scan for waterfowl, then to a 10-minute story. All are encouraged to tell rather than King Middle School will discuss their expedition Small work our way around the East End to Portland’s waterfront read, but works-in-progress are encouraged in an environActs of Courage: Memories of the Civil Rights Moveto check the congregations of gulls for unusual species, ment supportive of learning storytelling, so notes are not ment, a project that involves students learning and including Iceland, glaucous, and lesser black-backed. From discouraged. Handicap accessible entrance is available.” telling important stories of local citizens. Julia Adams, there we’ll cross the bridge to Willard Beach and work our The Jewish Museum, Etz Chaim Synagogue, 267 Congress a member of the Portland String Quartet, will join the way along the Cape Elizabeth shore to Portland Head Light, St. (at the head of India Street), Portland. http://treeoflifestudents to discuss her own experience during the Two Lights State Park, and Kettle Cove (time and weather museum.org/info.php?info_id=8 Civil Rights Movement. Tickets for Warriors Don’t Cry permitting). Expect to see loons, grebes, great cormorant, are $23 for Ovations’ Members, $25 for the general at least eight duck species, and other seabirds. Luck may public and a limited amount of $10 student tickets are turn up a Barrow’s goldeneye, brant, or possibly a king Friday, Jan. 20 also available. To purchase tickets, contact PortTix eider. Limited to 12 participants (5 in the van).” Advance at 842-0800 or visit the box office window at Merrill registration is necessary. For those with questions, call 7812012 eco-Excellence Awards nominations Auditorium. Tickets are also available online at www.

2330 or email programs@maineaudubon.org.

5 p.m. The 2012 eco-Excellence Awards nominations are portlandovations.org.

WMPG Power Up! Open House due by Jan. 20. The awards are given annually in recogniCelebration of Robert Burns 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. “WMPG Community Radio’s Power tion of “green” activities by ecomaine, a nonprofit recycling 8 p.m. Celebration of Scotland’s Poet Robert Burns. A conUp! signal improvement project is a success! After years and waste disposal operation that is municipally owned cert of music and lore at Blue 650 Congress St., Portland of planning, fund-raising, and hard work, WMPG is now and operated. Michael Bobinsky chair of the ecomaine featuring Castlebay — vocals with Celtic harp,guitar, fiddle, broadcasting a new more powerful signal, reaching radios Board of Directors and director of Portland Public Services, and woodwinds. Romantic love ballads, robust drinking from southern York County to the Augusta area, and west said, “Each one of the 43 communities served by ecomaine songs, and moving humanistic anthems from the pen of to Central New Hampshire. To celebrate this important milecan win an award – it’s a great opportunity to recognize a Burns. Admission is by $8 suggested donation. Delicious stone with our listeners, supporters and volunteers, WMPG is person, group or business that has made a difference in food and drink available. The concert will be followed by a holding a day-long Power Up! Open House on Saturday, Jan. your community.” The judging of entries will be done by traditional Celtic session. Phone 774-4111, tom@boghat.

21, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Please join us by listening to 90.9 members of the ecomaine Recycling Committee. Troy com, FMI www.castlebay.net. or 104.1 FM, or stop by in person at 92 Bedford Street on the Moon (Portland), chair of the committee, and a member Portland campus of the University of Southern Maine for our of the board of directors, said all the recipients and their transmitter-warming party! On that day you’ll hear special celnominators will be invited to an awards luncheon given in Thursday, Jan. 19 ebratory programming on the air all day long, with live music, their honor in Portland on Wednesday, March 7. “At that voices from the past, and live and recorded calls from our new time,” said Moon, “we will present the individual awards Forum — Financing Maine’s Clean Tech Sector expanded listening area. The theme of the Power Up! Open and announce the Grand Award winners for community 7:15 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Environmental & Energy TechnolHouse is ‘Same Community Radio ... MUCH More Commuand business.” The brief entry forms and information about ogy Council of Maine, Financing Maine’s Clean Tech Sector, nity!’ At the WMPG studios, 92 Bedford Street on the Portland previous winners can be found on-line at www.ecomaine.

Abromson Center, University of Southern Maine, Portland. campus of the University of Southern Maine.” org or requested by phoning 523-3108.

“Compared to a year ago, venture capital investment in clean ‘The Mystery of Ice Mountain’ The Facebook Portrait Project tech companies has increased 73 percent to $1.1 billion (Ernst 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. The Dolly Wagglers present “The Mys5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Portland Museum of Art, Great Hall. Artist & Young). Clean technology investments are on the rise but tery of Ice Mountain,” puppet show for all ages. Mayo Street Tanja Alexia Hollander invites you to stop by the museum. what does this mean for Maine? The Jan.19 forum, Financing Arts, 10 Mayo St., Portland. Run Time approx 30 minutes.

The Are You Really My Friend? exhibition will open in FebMaine’s Clean Tech Sector will be a two-part event to explore $8 adults/ $4 kids under 12. www.mayostreetarts.org. The ruary. On Friday, Jan. 20, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., the public the state of venture capital in Maine, as well as other sources Dolly Wagglers present “The Mystery of Ice Mountain” at is invited to Collaborative Confessional: Tanja Alexia Holof funding available to clean tech start ups, firms experiencing Mayo Street Arts. “It is about an adventure in a remote, icy lander and the Facebook Portrait Project. www.portlandgrowth, and other businesses seeking capital. Part I: Panel (8 landscape with some exotic creatures of the colder climes. museum.org/Content/6628.shtml a.m. to 9:30 a.m.) State of Giving: philanthropic and foundaSlapstick, life-sized puppets, and ventriloquism are just a tion grant support--Betsy Biemann, Maine Technology InstiMaine Academy of Modern Music benefit few of the old-world tricks the Dolly Wagglers may pull from tute. State of Lending: commercial and public loans and the 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The Maine Academy of Modern Music is their sleeves. Audiences of all ages will enjoy the show. This political/regulatory environment’s influence — Mike Finnegan, hosting a benefit at The Big Easy (55 Market St., Portland) puppet show is part of The Children’s Puppet Workshop — Coastal Enterprises, Inc.; and, an overview of the steps necto raise funds for its music programs. “The whole family a series of puppet-themed workshops and performances essary to access loans and other funding streams — Stephen can rock to live music from The Twisted Truth, Beware of for the community at Mayo Street Arts. Sponsored in part Lovejoy, Maine Small Business Development Center, State of Pedestrians, Static and Phantom Companion from 6 p.m.

by The Virginia Hodgkins Somers Foundation, Portland Capital: venture capital availability and angel investors -- Don to 9 p.m. and the 21-plus crowd can rock a little harder from Community Policing, and Coffee By Design.”

Gooding, Maine Angels. Part II: Break Out Sessions (9:30 a.m.

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Nor’Easters Synchronized Skating Teams fundraiser, exhibition 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. The Nor’Easters Synchronized Skating Teams will host a fundraiser and exhibition on Jan. 21-22 in preparation for the 2012 U.S. Eastern Synchronized Skating Sectional Championships on Jan. 26-28 in Hershey, Penn.

Maine’s only synchronized skating team, the Nor’Easters are comprised of three teams featuring 38 skaters aged 9 to 59 from Maine and New Hampshire. Funds will be used for travel expenses to Easterns, where 2,000 athletes representing 150 teams from Florida to Maine will vie for titles in 13 divisions. The weekend will kick off on Saturday, Jan. 21 with a Spaghetti Dinner from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the St. Mary’s Church on 43 Foreside Road in Falmouth. Tickets are $10 for adults, $7 for seniors, and $5 for children. On Sunday, Jan. 22, the Nor’Easters will perform in a free exhibition from 2:40 p.m. to 4:50 p.m. at the Family Ice Center in Falmouth. Donations of bottles and cans are welcomed at both events.

For more information, please visit www.northatlanticfsc.org.

urday 7:30 p.m. ($25), Sundays 2 p.m. ($25) with a special added matinee on Saturday, Feb. 11, 3 p.m. ($20). Reservations and information call 885-5883. Presented by Good Theater, a professional theater; the theater is in residence at the St. Lawrence Arts Center. www.goodtheater. com

Thursday, Jan. 26 Mad Horse Theatre Company’s ‘Becky Shaw’

7:30 p.m. Mad Horse Theatre Company presents “Becky Shaw,” “the Pulitzer Prize finalist and smash hit by Obie Award winning playwright Gina Gionfriddo.

In what The New York Times calls ‘a comedy of bad manners,’ a woman fixes up her romantically challenged best friend with her husband’s mysterious co-worker.

The date goes horribly awry, forcing the matchmakers to examine their own relationship and leading the daters to an emotional detente.” Written by Gina Gionfriddo , directed by James Herrera.

Previews begin Thursday, Jan. 26 at 7:30 p.m. Opening night is Jan. 28 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $22 student/ senior $20. The Maine Premiere of “Becky Shaw” marks the first time Women in Harmony Mad Horse Theatre Company has 7 p.m. Women in Harmony, Portproduced a work by Gionfriddo. land’s 60-voice women’s chorus, It also marks the directorial debut presents a winter concert, Still I Rise, of company member James Heralso Jan. 22 at 4 p.m. “The program rera, who jumped at the chance to celebrates the strength and resilience of women as they seek peace, free- The Tree of Life Museum and Etz Chaim Synagogue, home of the Maine Jewish Museum, is shown during its restoration. The helm a cast made up entirely of Mad dom and understanding. Over three Jewish Museum, Etz Chaim Synagogue, 267 Congress St., is the site of a Story Telling Circle on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. (DAVID Horse Theatre Company members.

According to Herrera, the cast made quarters of the pieces on the pro- CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO) his transition from actor to director gram were written by women comeasier than it could have been. posers and/or performers, including and thinkers. Followed by Q&A with Noah Chasin, Assistant Joan Szymko, Carol Maillard of Sweet Honey in the Rock, Professor at Bard College and Mitchell Rasor of MRLD LandElizabeth Alexander, Eleanor Daley, Gwyneth Walker, The Friday, Jan. 27 scape Architecture + Design. Co-Presented by AIGA Maine Righteous Mothers, Laura Berkson, Rosephayne Powell, and MRLD Landscape Architecture + Urbanism.” $7/$5 and Holly Near. Woodfords Congregational Church, 202 for SPACE members, free for AIGA Maine, all ages. www.

Portland Sea Dogs Food Drive Woodford St., Portland. Admission is $15 at the door; Stuspace538.org/events.php 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Portland Sea Dogs have announced dents/Seniors $10.” that the organization will hold its 12th annual Food Drive which will run from now through Friday, Jan. 27. All the colWednesday, Jan. 25 lected food items will be donated to the Good Shepherd Monday, Jan. 23 Food Bank. As in the past, this year’s food drive will be “Buy Walker Memorial Library computer classes One, Bring One, Get One.” “For every ticket purchased and 10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. Walker Memorial Library is deep every donated food item you bring, you will receive a free Young drivers’ safety discussion into the digital age and invites you to learn more about Sea Dogs ticket to the same game. For example, if you buy 6 p.m. “Conversations with the Communities,” a public discomputers with us. Starting Wednesday, Jan. 25, staff will three tickets to the June 7 game and bring in three food cussion regarding ways to improve the safety of Maine’s offer computer discussion classes. Sign up and join us. items, you will receive three additional complimentary tickyoung drivers. The Secretary of State’s “Conversations with 10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. we will offer short discussion and ets of equal or lesser value to the June 7 game. The offer is the Communities” were scheduled to be held on the foldemonstrations related to computers and what they can good for Box Seats, Reserved, General Admission, and lowing dates at the local Bureau of Motor Vehicle Offices: do for you. All sessions are free yet limited to six persons Pavilion seating; subject to availability. Fans may take Tuesday, Jan. 17 in Bangor at 6 p.m.; Wednesday, Jan. 18 at each session. Signup for each session recommended. advantage of this offer by bringing their non-perishable in Caribou at 6 p.m.; and Thursday, Jan. 19 in Calais at 5:30 854-0630, ext. 5 . food items to the Hadlock Field Box Office. The Sea p.m. All are welcome to attend. For a complete schedule of Free For All opening reception Dogs Ticket Office is open Monday through Friday from “Conversations with the Community” including addresses 6 p.m.

SPACE Gallery exhibit opening.

“Come celebrate the 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Each year the Sea Dogs have been able to the motor vehicle locations or for information and instrucopening of our salon style exhibit Free For All. The walls will to donate hundreds of food items to the Good Shepherd tions on joining the discussion via Webinar, please visit the be stacked with art from emerging and established artists, Food Bank thanks to the generosity of Sea Dogs’ fans.

Secretary of State’s website at www.maine.gov/sos/. in a range of subject, size and medium. It’ a true Free For The Sea Dogs open the 2012 season on the road with ‘A Journey to Darfur’ All!” www.space538.org/events.php a 4:05 p.m. doubleheader in Reading, Penn., against 7 p.m. The Meg Perry Center, 644 Congress St., Portland. the Reading Phillies. The home opener is slated for Wind Power discussion Fur Cultural Revival (part of The Darfur Community Center Thursday, April 12 at 6 p.m. against the Binghamton 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Gilsland Farm Sanctuary, Falmouth, Maine of Maine) is proud to present the documentary film, “A Mets at Hadlock Field. The 2012 season will be the Audubon. Kate Williams, Wildlife and Renewable Energy Journey to Darfur” starring George Clooney. This film will Sea Dogs 19th year in Portland and 10th as a Boston Program Director at the Biodiversity Research Institute, has be shown for free on Monday, January 23, 2011 at 7:00 PM Red Sox affiliate.” Tickets can be purchased by calling worked with shorebirds, wading birds, seabirds, passerat The Meg Perry Center, 644 Congress Street in Portland, the Sea Dogs Ticket Office at 879-9500 and online at ines, fishes, and mammals across Maine and internationMaine. The public is encouraged to attend. The event is www.seadogs.com. ally. Kate will be providing an overview of wildlife issues all ages and free. The film will be followed by a discussion related to wind power development, both onshore and offMovies at the Museum, ‘One for the Road’ and a short presentation by El-Fadel Arbab, America’s prishore, with a focus on birds and bats.

She will also discuss 6:30 p.m. Movies at the Museum, “One for the Road,” Portmary spokesperson for the Darfuri refugee diaspora, who current studies in this arena, and discuss proposals for offland Museum of Art. Friday, Jan. 27, 7 p.m.; Saturday, Jan. will speak about the ongoing Genocide throughout Sudan. shore wind farms in Maine. Free.

28, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.; Sunday, Jan. 29, 2 p.m. NR. www. portlandmuseum.org/events ‘Next Fall’ by Good Theater Tuesday, Jan. 24 7 p.m. “Next Fall” by Geoffrey Nauffts, Jan. 25 to Feb. 19.

‘Sailing with Paper’ at Constellation “Good Theater presents the Maine premiere of this recent 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. “Sailing with Paper” at Constellation Film: Urbanized at SPACE Best Play Tony Award nominee. A charming, funny and Gallery. Constellation artist Jos Ruks is offering a 7:30 p.m. SPACE Gallery film screening. “‘Urbanized’ (the touching play about life and love from one of the writers of free demonstration and hands-on workshop “Sailing third part of Gary Hustwit’s design film trilogy, joining ‘Helthe hit TV series, Brothers & Sisters.” Directed by Brian P. with Paper.” “Jos will be teaching you how to expand vetica’ and ‘Objectified’) is a feature-length documentary Allen and starring Joe Bearor, Rob Cameron, Matt Delamayour paper-art horizons beyond traditional origami! about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and ter, Moira Driscoll Abbie Killeen and Tony Reilly. St LawMaterials for attendees are provided free of charge. strategies behind urban design and features some of the rence Arts Center, 76 Congress St. Wednesdays 7 p.m.

Light refreshments provided.” Constellation Gallery, 511 world’s foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, ($15), Thursdays 7 p.m. ($20), Fridays 7:30 p.m. ($20), SatCongress St., Portland. 409-6617.

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Thursday, Jan. 19 Mike Stud at Port City 8 p.m. “The Kollection” states: “A lot of people think of Mike Stud as one of just many rappers in a new genre: college students who make party music. It is true that Stud’s biggest track to date is College Humor (see below). However, after meeting Mike Stud on the set for the College Humor video, I found that there was much more to this artist than meets the eye.” Port City Music Hall. Advance: $10; door: $15; VIP: $25. www.portcitymusichall.com

Friday, Jan. 20 Orchard Lounge 8 p.m. Downtempo, space disco, house, tech, b-boy era electro, hip hop, soul, and funk – if you can move, Orchard Lounge will back you up. Formed in Chicago in 2000, OL is the collective of Ben Silver, Spencer Lokken and Bethany Lokken. This versatile trio has enlightened dance floors nationwide with their eclectic mixes, from sunset chill-out to bass-dropping tech house, and an array of other futuristic sounds. Theirs is a democratic mission: to expose as many people as possible to the artists they admire and respect. Port City Music Hall. Advance: $12; door: $15; VIP: $25.

Saturday, Jan. 21 Women in Harmony 7 p.m. Women in Harmony, Portland’s 60-voice women’s chorus, presents a winter concert, Still I Rise, also Jan. 22 at 4 p.m. “The program celebrates the strength and resilience of women as they seek peace, freedom and understanding. Over three quarters of the pieces on the program were written by women composers and/or performers, including Joan Szymko, Carol Maillard of Sweet Honey in the Rock, Elizabeth Alexander, Eleanor Daley, Gwyneth Walker, The Righteous Mothers, Laura Berkson, Rosephayne Powell, and Holly Near. Woodfords Congregational Church, 202 Woodford St., Portland. Admission is $15 at the door; Students/Seniors $10.”

Robert Burns concert 7:30 p.m. Concert of Music, Dance, Poetry in celebration of Robert Burns. Portland New Church, 302 Stevens Ave., Portland, featuring: Highland Soles (Scottish & Cape Breton music and dance by fiddler Ed Pearlman, dancer Laura Scott, and family); Neil Pearlman Band (Scottish music laced with jazz, Latin and funk influences); Elijah Woolcott (Grade 1 bagpiper, the top level of solo piping); Annie Finch (renowned poet/author, director of USM’s Stonecoast MFA writing program); Betsy Sholl (former poet laureate of Maine). Poets Annie Finch and Betsy Sholl will select several Burns poems for us, and will write their own poems in dialogue with Burns, specially for this evening’s performance. We look forward to seeing you in the intimate hall at

Hip hop, rap and pop artist Mike Stud (Mike Seander) of Rhode Island will perform Thursday at Port City Music Hall. (COURTESY PHOTO) the Portland New Church (Swedenborgian).” Tickets $12 at door or online at www.highlandsoles.com. Information 7676396 info@highlandsoles.com

onnaise and Rew. With expert visual instruction by David Meiklejohn.

Tuesday, Jan. 24

Alias, Trails, Sandbag, Educated Advocates 8 p.m. SPACE Gallery presents. Local hip-hop luminaries take the stage for an expansive evening of beats and rhymes. No stranger to SPACE, Alias’ amazingly diverse portfolio of EPs, remixes, collaborations and sonic explorations consistently impresses. Rapper Syn and DJ/producer theLin form the raw and unconventional duo Trails. Sandbag is a collective of talented emcees - Mr. Harps, Pensivv, Nate Shupe, and Ill By Instinct - who fuse socially aware lyricism with goodold-fashioned hip hop. Educated Advocates makes “new vintage” hip-hop, mixing innovative rhymes and vocal arrangements with golden era production styles.

Keeping it fresh all night on the decks will be DJs May-

PSO Tuesday Classical concert

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