The Portland Daily Sun, Friday, January 20, 2012

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Police: Occupy member took signs

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Leak in police chief search upsets city Confidentiality vowed. See a story on page 7 New sign network worth studying? Civic Center trustees balk — See a story on page 8

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The Cumberland County Civic Center is among the destinations noted on a “hoop” sign on Spring Street. A city committee hopes to gather contributions to match a grant for studying “wayfinding,” a way to establish coordinated signage on the peninsula. Civic Center trustees balked at contributing, saying the money should go toward the signs, not another study. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

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Boeing departs from Wichita WICHITA, Kan. (NY Times) — The crowd gathered at the local headquarters for Boeing was euphoric. The company had just won one of the largest military contracts in history.

Thousands of the resulting jobs, Boeing had promised, would be headed here, to the sprawling manufacturing complex where residents have been building airplanes for generations.

“It’s good for Kansas, it’s good for Wichita and it’s a great day to be alive here and to profess victory,” said Senator Pat Roberts, part of the political team that spent a decade battling on behalf of the company. “Every once in a while the good guys win.”

That celebration last February was supposed to confirm this city’s enduring status as the “Air Capital of the World.” But less than a year later, on Jan. 4, Boeing executives solemnly gathered here for another announcement. The jobs would not be arriving after all, they said. Instead, they would shut down all of the company’s local operations by the end of 2013. Barring some unexpected act of salvation, this is how Boeing leaves Wichita after eight decades as one of its biggest employers and most prestigious brands: in a trail of broken promises and bitter recriminations.

For most of the country, this is just one more plant closing, just 2,160 more lost jobs in a Midwestern city — nothing particularly dramatic in these difficult times. But the exit has been another painful blow to the city of Wichita and the airplane manufacturing industry that has sustained it, the sudden reversal of fortune only adding to the feeling of betrayal.

After waves of layoffs and threatened departures by the plane makers, there is a growing fear that this city, like so many other manufacturing centers, is at risk of losing its identity as one of those American places where people make things and are paid well for it.

David Robertson, who has worked at Boeing for 35 of his 54 years, following his father into the business, said he suspected that when the jobs head elsewhere his employer will miss the commitment and expertise built through company clans like his.

“What did we talk about at supper?” Robertson asked.

“We talked about planes.

You go to a place where people don’t have that history, where people haven’t been doing it for generations, and to them it’s just a job.”

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Perry drops out, endorses Gingrich

BY JEFF ZELENY THE NEW YORK TIMES

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Gov. Rick Perry of Texas dropped out of the Republican presidential race here on Thursday and announced his endorsement for the candidacy of Newt Gingrich, a man he called a “conservative visionary.”

“I’ve never believed that the cause of conservatism is embodied by one individual,” Mr. Perry said at a news conference here.

“Our party and our conservative philosophy transcends any one individual.”

Mr. Perry, who opened his bid for the Republican presidential nomination five months ago here in South Carolina, conceded that “there is no viable path forward for me.” He urged Republicans to support Mr. Gingrich, who he conceded was not a perfect candidate, but was the best conservative alternative in the race.

“Newt is not perfect, but who among us is,” Mr. Perry said.

“The fact is, there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I

believe in the power of redemption, for it is a central tenet of my Christian faith.”

Mr. Perry reached the decision on Wednesday night, his aides said, and informed Mr. Gingrich of his plans to leave the race. He was planning to fly home to Texas shortly after his announcement.

“I have no question that Newt Gingrich has the heart of a conservative reformer,” Mr. Perry said, adding that the Republican Party cannot squander its opportunity to put forward a “conservative leader who can bring about real change.”

In a brief announcement here, as Mr. Perry was surrounded by his wife and family, he did not acknowledge Mitt Romney by name. But his praise of Mr. Gingrich, along with his repeated calls for Republicans to elect a true conservative, seemed to be a direct shot at Mr. Romney.

It remains an open question what effect his endorsement of Mr. Gingrich will have on the South Carolina primary on Saturday. But with only four Republican candidates remain-

ing in the race, conservatives are urging voters to coalesce around one alternative to Mr. Romney.

Mr. Perry had no immediate plans to campaign alongside Mr. Gingrich over the next two days, aides said.

Mr. Perry’s decision comes as Mr. Gingrich has picked up support in South Carolina during the past week of campaigning.

A CNN/Time survey released Wednesday showed that Mr. Romney’s lead over Mr. Gingrich in South Carolina has been cut in half over the past two weeks. Mr. Gingrich has urged his other rivals to drop out so that conservative voters can coalesce around him as the alternative to Mr. Romney.

Rick Santorum, who had 16 percent support in the CNN/ Time survey, on Wednesday dismissed that suggestion out of hand. Mr. Santorum is scheduled to hold two events Thursday before participating in a debate sponsored by CNN. The decision by Mr. Perry, which was first reported by CNN, narrows the Republican

field to four candidates. A new NBC News/Marist poll of likely Republican voters in South Carolina shows that among Mr. Perry’s supporters, 34 percent said Mr. Gingrich was their second choice, 20 percent said Ron Paul, 19 percent said Mr. Santorum, and 18 percent said Mr. Romney. But it is important to remember, that only 4 percent of all South Carolina likely voters said they were supporting Rick Perry to begin with.

In a statement, Mr. Romney praised Mr. Perry, who had recently called Mr. Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, “a vulture capitalist.”

“Rick Perry ran a campaign based upon love of country and conservative principles,” Mr. Romney said in a statement.

Mr. Perry was in the single digits in recent polls here, but his withdrawal from the race could affect the outcome of the primary by giving conservative voters one less alternative. He had been appealing heavily to South Carolina’s evangelical voters.

Ethnic war intensifies in Myanmar U.S. jobless

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BY EDWAWRD WONG THE NEW YORK TIMES

MAIJA YANG, Myanmar — Even as the Burmese government initiates political reforms in much of the country, it has intensified an ethnic civil war here in the hills of northern Myanmar, a conflict that at once threatens its warming trend with the United States and to alienate Chinese officials concerned about stability on the border.

This month scores of mortar rounds fired by the Burmese military landed within miles of this town near the mountainous Chinese border. International human rights groups and soldiers and officials of the Kachin ethnic group say that Burmese soldiers have burned and looted homes, planted mines, forcibly recruited villagers as porters and guides, and raped, tortured and executed civilians. Several thousand villagers have fled to China. Tens of thousands more who have been displaced could follow if the Burmese Army continues its offensive, local

In Myanmar, at least 10,000 displaced people live in camps in areas controlled by the government that often lack adequate food, health care and education facilities (NEW YORK TIMES PHOTO)

relief workers say.

Lazum Bulu will not be going further. Exhausted by the flight from her village, she died on Jan. 10 in a bare concrete room in a camp here for the displaced. People said she was 107. Her body lay on blankets on the floor. “I regret that my mother can’t be buried with my father,” said her daughter, Hkang Je Mayun. “The Burmese Army was coming, and we didn’t want to live in

the village anymore. We were afraid they would kill all the Kachin people.”

The fighting has raised questions about the limits of the reform agenda pushed by President Thein Sein, Myanmar’s first civilian president in nearly 50 years, who has led the opening to the West. But some analysts in Myanmar say Mr. Thein Sein has been unable or unwilling to control the generals pressing the war.

The number of people seeking unemployment benefits for the first time plummeted last week to 352,000, the fewest since April 2008, the Labor Department said Thursday. The decline added to evidence that the job market is strengthening.

Weekly applications fell by 50,000, the biggest drop in the seasonally adjusted figure in more than six years. The fourweek average, which smoothes out fluctuations, dropped to 379,000. That was the secondlowest such figure in more than three years.

When weekly applications fall consistently below 375,000, it usually signals that hiring is strong enough to push down the unemployment rate. A department spokesman cautioned, however, that volatility at this time of year was common.

Separately, the department said consumer prices were unchanged in December, the latest sign that inflation remains tame.

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Police: OccupyMaine member took camp’s signs

BY MATTHEW ARCO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Portland police say they solved the case of the missing signs in Lincoln Park.

OccupyMaine's signs, posters and banners were apparently removed and discarded by a member of the protest group, said Acting Police Chief Michael Sauschuck on Thursday.

The reportedly stolen signs made news earlier in the week after protesters said police chuckled at them when they attempted to file a police report of the signs' disappearance. City officials quickly disputed that any officers snickered during the interaction with protesters and said they had video footage to back up their claims.

Ultimately, Sauschuck says the department found the culprit.

He explained an officer leaving the station at the end of a shift early Friday morning noticed a man taking down the signs. The incident occurred at about 1:15 a.m. and resulted in the officer approaching the individual, who Sauschuck said had a van parked nearby.

"As soon as he starts talking to the guy he recognizes him as somebody he has seen in Lincoln Park as part of Occupy multiple times in the past," Sauschuck said. "The man identified himself ... and said

This file photo shows signs attached to a fence at Lincoln Park, placed there by the OccupyMaine anti-Wall Street movement. When signs in the park went missing recently, police became involved, after OccupyMaine alerted them. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)

he works during the day and could not take part in a (recent) cleanup."

The man explained he was doing what he thought the protesters had requested.

When the officer returned to the Portland Police Department Tuesday evening from his days off, he noticed the OccupyMaine signs mentioned in the shift logs, Sauschuck said.

"He talked to the guy again and realizes this is all directly connected," he said.

Police then went to the man's home Wednesday

and he gave police a written statement explaining he took the signs down and that he thought he was doing the right thing.

Sauschuck said the man communicated to police that the signs had been thrown away.

He explained the department does not consider that what the man did was a crime since he is a selfidentified member of OccupyMaine.

If OccupyMaine filed a complaint, Sauschuck said police would make a determination whether or not to pursue charges.

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Maine shrimp catch limits increased by regulators DAILY SUN STAFF REPORTS Fisherman armed with research data suggesting shrimp populations were higher than government estimates convinced federal regulators yesterday to increase the 2012 shrimp catch limits, according to news reports.

At a meeting yesterday in South Portland, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission's Northern Section agree to raise the catch limits from 2,000 to 2,211 metric tons, according to the Portland Press Herald. A proposal to raise catch limits to 3,000 metric tons was rejected.

A fisherman’s group calling itself Save Our Shrimp sought the increase, according to the paper. The group argued that the restrictions would harm the overseas market for Maine and hurt fishermen financially, the paper reported.

Toddler’s mom unable to finish polygraph test The mother of a missing Waterville toddler was forced to abandon an inprogress polygraph exam this week, an episode she blamed on a previously undisclosed medical condition, according to news reports.

Trista Reynolds, mother of 20-month-old Ayla Reynolds, who dis-

appeared more than a month ago from her father’s Waterville home, said in a statement that she was unable to finish the test.

"According to the test administrator, who was very courteous and professional, I was unable to complete the test due to a medical condition," Reynolds said in the statement. "It was suggested to me that after treatment by a medical doctor I might be able to finish the test, but the investigating authority is content with the general outcome of the incomplete test (as it stands)."

She gave no indication of the medical condition that caused her to stop taking the test.

Ayla’s father, Justin DiPietro, has also taken a polygraph, although the results have not been released.

Ayla was last seen on Dec. 16, when her father tucked her into bed at about 10 p.m. She has not been seen since, and police are treating the incident as a kidnapping. No arrests have been made, and authorities have not identified any suspects.

City councilors back end to ‘corporate personhood’ By a 6-2 vote, the Portland City Council adopted a resolution Wednesday night that supported an end to the principle of “corporate personhood.”

The non-binding resolution, which was introduced by Councilor David Marshall, argues that corporations

are legal entities, not people.

The question of “corporate personhood” has been a political flash-point since the 2010 Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. The Federal Election Commission, which said limits on corporate and union spending in political races were unconstitutional. The court found, essentially, that corporations and unions are people, and any limits on their political spending amounted to limits on free speech.

Portland is just the latest city to adopt a resolution condemning the decision, which opponents say expands the

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The resolution urges Maine’s U.S. Senators to support a constitutional amendment abolishing corporate personhood. It also urges the expansion of Maine’s Clean Elections Fund “so as to keep private money from distorting elections.”

Mayor Michael Brennan, and councilors Marshall, John Anton, Nick Mavodones, Jill Duson and Kevin Donoghue supported the resolution.

Councilors Cheryl Leeman and John Coyne opposed it.

Councilor Ed Suslovic left the meeting before a vote was taken.

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Is banking bad?

When I spoke at Swarthmore College recently, I was startled by one question: Is it immoral for students to seek banking jobs?

The corollary question, with Mitt Romney’s business career under attack even by staunch Republicans, is this: Is it unethical to make millions in private equity?

My answer to both questions: no.

I’ve been sympathetic to the Occupy Wall Street movement, but, look, finance is not evil. Banking has contributed immensely to modern civilization. By allocating capital to more efficient uses, banking laid the groundwork for the industrial revolution and the information revolution.

Likewise, the attacks on private equity seem over the top.

Private equity firms like Bain Capital, where Romney worked, ––––– aren’t about destroying comThe New York panies and picking over the Times carcasses. Rather, the aim is to acquire poorly managed companies, make them more efficient (sometimes by firing people but often by rejiggering the business model) and then resell them at a profit. That’s the merciless, rugged nature of capitalism.

Now for my caveats.

When young people go into finance, I hope that they’ll show judgment, balance and principles instead of their elders’ penchant for greed and rigging the system. Just as Communists managed to destroy Communism, capitalists are discrediting capitalism.

A Pew Research Center poll in December found that only 50 percent of Americans reacted positively to the term “capitalism,” while 40 percent reacted negatively.

Among Americans ages 18 to 29, more had a negative view of capitalism than a positive view, the survey found. Those young Americans actually viewed socialism more positively than capitalism. In other words, America’s grasping capitalists are turning young Americans into socialists.

The Financial Times recently published a series about “capitalism in crisis.” It noted that the Edelman Trust Barometer, a survey, found that only 46 percent of Americans had confidence in business to do the right thing (and only 25 percent trusted banks).

Public skepticism is warranted, in my view. Corporations have vastly overpaid C.E.O.’s, handsomely rewarding not only success but also failure. Banks that helped cause today’s financial mess lobbied suc-

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Perry may run again in 2016 NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — To know Rick Perry was to ignore him.

The more he campaigned for the Republican nomination for president, the lower his poll numbers dropped.

As he traveled the country, gripping and grinning with voters, laying out his personality, plans and proposals, his surge began to sag like a leaky zeppelin.

Though Perry is an experienced politician and the longest-serving governor in Texas history, though people say he is warm and personable — unless you are a condemned murderer, that is — the more people around the country saw him, the less they seemed to like him.

And Thursday, in a suburban hotel meeting room stuffed with reporters but without supporters, Perry suspended his campaign in an 11-minute speech that he read from notes and then left the room without taking questions.

There were two notable moments, however: First, he endorsed Newt Gingrich — but in the worst possible way.

He began well. “I believe Newt is a conservative visionary who can transform our country,” Perry said.

At which point, he should have stopped. Instead, he plunged onward. “Newt is not perfect,”

Roger Simon ––––– Creators Syndicate Perry said, showing a certain flair for the obvious, “but who among us is?”

The public had been reminded of Newt’s imperfection Thursday morning, when ABC broadcast portions of an interview with Newt’s second wife, who alleged that Newt came to her seeking an “open” marriage and that he had sexual relations with his girlfriend in the same bed he shared with his wife. (Though not at the same time, thank goodness.)

Gingrich’s infidelities over the years have been well documented, but the public was now seeing a wronged women taking about the sordidness, crassness and untrustworthiness of a man who just happens to be running for president of the United States and faces a critical primary in South Carolina on Saturday.

So why was Perry bringing up Gingrich’s character in what was supposed to be an endorsement?

Well, maybe because Perry wants some goody points from Gin-

grich for endorsing him while it still counts, but also wants to distance himself a little just in case Gingrich flames out for being a philanderer.

“The fact is,” Perry said, “there is forgiveness for those who seek God, and I believe in the power of redemption, for it is a central tenet of my own Christian faith.”

Needless to say, Gingrich was not in the room to hear how God could forgive a man even like him.

The second interesting part of Perry’s withdrawal was how upbeat it was about Perry’s own future.

Nothing in his presidential campaign had gone well.

Mitt Romney attacked Perry for signing into law a bill that lets the children of illegal aliens qualify for in-state tuition at Texas colleges and universities. Michele Bachmann attacked Perry for his executive order mandating a vaccine for young girls to fight cervical cancer.

And then there was Perry’s “brain freeze” during a debate, an understandable human moment that nonetheless became the equivalent of Howard Dean’s scream in 2004, an event that seemed to disqualify him from the highest office in the land.

Perry spent more than $6 million in Iowa in this campaign, came in fifth and announced he was going home to “reassess” his future. see SIMON page 5

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Run down in Portland Got knocked on my keister by a guy in a motorized wheelchair in Monument Square this morning. We somehow converged between the pay phones and the Public Market. Converged, hell, he came up and hit me from behind.

I heard the damn thing at the last second and tried to jump out of the way but the plastic milk crate he had attached to the front clipped the side of my leg. I went sprawling and his stupid plastic milk crate got knocked off and some empty bottles and cans he had in it went flying. I wasn’t banged up too badly, I knew I’d have a bruise from the hard landing, but it could’ve been worse. Far worse. So that put me in a grateful mood, but I have to say I got a little annoyed when he paid more attention to retrieving his gear than he did to me being down on the bricks.

“Kin you help me git my basket back on and pick up my bottles ‘en cans an’ put ‘em back in it for me?

I been collectin’ ‘em all day an’ I don’t wanna lose none of ’em,” he said after he looked over to me and saw that I was conscious.

“Think you ought’a look where you’re goin’ with that thing?” I said, not mad as hell, but, you know, a little gruff like.

“Yeah, sorry. I was fixin’ my basket an’ came right up on ya. Kin you help me git this stuff picked up?”

At that point I realized that it was a hopeless situation. His life is tied up into that motorized wheelchair with the plastic milk crate stuck on the front of it and my body has just interferred with all of that.

His means of bringing in a little cash has been interrupted and he can’t rectify the situation by himself.

His day’s work, representing an amount that could well decide what he has for dinner, is strewn all around Monument Square.

––––– He’s got bigger fish to fry than whether or not I got banged up a Daily Sun bit.

Columnist After quietly considering that for a moment as I lay there, I very slowly and carefully got up off the ground, then went over and picked up the milk crate and crammed it down over his head.

Naw, I’m funnin’ ya. I got up shaking my head in resignation, picked up the crate and all the bottles and cans and got him goin’ on his way. Why the hell not.

But c’mon. Strollin’ around the city ain’t what it used to be. There’s the bicycle billies and the freakin’ skateboarders to deal with, along with a whole host of other vehicular means of transportation. Pays to walk in a straight line and be alert for oncoming at all times. No weavin’ this way or that. And even then you’re not all that safe. What makes it worse is that look they’ve got about them. Like you don’t really exist for anything but being in their way.

Don’t git me goin’. I know they’ve got their problems, especially those in the motorized wheelchairs, and I know they’re doing the best they can, but it’s getting real bad out there. Don’t git me goin’. Sitting at the computer writing this doesn’t feel very comfortable at the moment.

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Young people want to milk the system, not fix it KRISTOF from page 4

cessfully for bailouts for themselves; they privatized profits and socialized losses.

Meanwhile, more than four million families have lost their homes to foreclosure, according to Zillow. com, a real estate company. Bankers and shareholders found a safety net, but not working-class families. One reason is that the campaign finance system allows financiers to buy access and special favors. If you’re a tycoon, your best investment often is a lobbying firm in Washington to create a tax loophole for you. The last few years have been a showcase not of capitalism itself, but of crony capitalism.

Romney’s average tax rate, which he says is probably about 15 percent, exemplifies the problem. The Romneys benefit because capital gains tax rates have been slashed to just 15 percent, much lower than rates paid on labor income.

Then there’s the most egregious tax loophole of all, for “carried interest.” A triumph of lobbying, it allows private equity and hedge fund managers to pretend that their labor income is a capital gain. So they sometimes pay a tax rate of just 15 percent, compared with up to 35 percent for almost everyone else.

Granted, young people haven’t been pouring into

finance in recent years out of eagerness to reform this rigged system but to milk it. In 2007, on the eve of the financial crisis, 47 percent of Harvard’s graduating class headed for consulting firms and the financial sector — a huge misallocation of human capital. However well-meaning these new graduates are initially, they often end up caught up in the scramble at the trough.

In the postwar years, labor unions became greedy and rewarded themselves with feather-bedding and rigid work rules — turning much of the public against them. Likewise, Wall Street feather-bedding is tarnishing the public image of banks and business and undermining confidence in capitalism itself.

When financiers rig the system, they should remember the warning of John Maynard Keynes: “The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.”

So university students would be wrong to mock their classmates who choose Citigroup over CARE. Banking and private equity aren’t evil, and I would never urge college students to stay away. Maybe today’s young socialist sympathizers, along with healthy regulation and a loud public outcry, can help rescue capitalism from the crony capitalists.

The future seemed to be very much on Perry’s mind SIMON from page 4

Instead, he decided to push onward into South Carolina, where he spent another chunk of the $17.2 million he says he has raised.

But he gets to keep any money left over for the future, and the future seemed very much on Perry’s mind Thursday.

Calling his withdrawal only a

“strategic retreat,” Perry concluded by saying, “And this I know: I am not done fighting for the cause of conservatism. In fact, I have only begun to fight.”

What does that mean?

Well, it could mean Perry will run for re-election as governor of Texas, Ray Sullivan, his spokesman, told reporters after Perry had disappeared from the room.

And then there is always 2016.

Perry may be “doing this again in four years, if the president wins,” Sullivan said. “Republican voters tend to like the experienced candidates that they’ve seen for a long time. So I would not rule it out.”

Perry appears to have been bitten by the presidential bug. And for some campaigners, it’s not over even when it’s over.

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Portland fire chief announces retirement

BY CASEY CONLEY THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Portland Fire Chief Fred LaMontagne, a 27-year veteran of the department, announced yesterday that he was retiring from the position, effective April 1.

“It’s a very rewarding job, and I found it exciting and challenging,” LaMontagne, who has been chief for the past 10 years, said in a brief phone interview.

“I will always be a Portland firefighter. Firefighting will always be in my blood, but it’s the right time for me to step down.”

LaMontagne said he expected to pursue other opportunities after April 1 but did not have a job lined up.

As chief, Lamontagne is credited with merging emergency medical services in with the fire department and leading regionalization efforts for dispatch and 911 services. He also helped coordinate the city’s emergency response during natural disasters, emergencies and the H1N1 “swine flu” epidemic.

But he has also faced criticism at times, including two recent accidents involving the city’s $3.2 million fire boat, the MV City of Portland.

In November 2009, shortly after it was christened, the fire boat ran aground on a charted rock shelf in Casco Bay. That episode caused $90,000 worth of damage to the vessel and ultimately cost the city $25,000 toward its insurance deductible. LaMontagne ultimately deemed the accident “preventable.”

Repairs kept the vessel out of service for three months, and the boat’s pilot retired before disciplinary action was taken.

Then in October 2011, the same vessel hit an underwater object while 12 civilians, including firefighters’ families, were on board. The department initially claimed the accident occurred during a “training mission,” but later backed off that position.

All told, the accident cost the city $38,000 and led to

After 27 years of public service to the city, Fire Chief Fred LaMontagne has decided to end his career with the Fire Department to pursue new professional opportunities. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

new rules prohibiting most civilians from the city’s fire boats.

Disciplinary action against two firefighters involved in that incident is still pending.

LaMontagne said yesterday that the latest accident with the fire boat did not influence his decision to step down.

“No, it didn’t,” he said. “This is a position that has many challenges associated with it, and certainly the fire boat was an unfortunate event … but it was not a factor in the decision.”

Over the years, LaMontagne has led the city’s response to a number of two- and three-alarm fires, including the response to the three-alarm fire at Jordan’s Meats two years ago and the string of arson fires set in cars and home in Parkside four years ago.

He also managed the department during a period of shrinking budgets and labor strife, including a contract dispute between the firefighters union and the city over pay raises that led to layoffs in 2009.

“Chief LaMontagne has been an incredible asset to the department, City Hall and the community atlarge,” said City Manager Mark Rees in a statement.

“His distinguished career speaks to his commitment to the city and department."

LaMontagne was hired as a firefighter almost 28 years ago (he still remembers his hiring date: July 16, 1984) and rose through the ranks to become chief in 2002. The department has 234 firefighters and six deputy chiefs.

In a city-issued press release, LaMontagne noted the position of fire chief “requires not only personal sacrifice, but family sacrifice as well.”

LaMontagne earns $99,773 per year.

A city spokesperson said she did not believe he will leave with a large “termination pay” package — a term that refers to accumulated sick pay and vacation time that some public employees can cash out upon retirement.

A nationwide search is planned to find LaMontagne’s replacement. In the coming weeks, the city will release details of a transition plan that will take effect once he retires.

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Michaud said he recently sent a letter to President Obama asking him to request $5.1 billion for LIHEAP’s budget next year, which is a level that would represent full funding for the program.

“This funding is needed, but it’s not enough,” said Michaud, who’s working with New England’s congressional delegation on a bill to address LIHEAP’s funding shortfall. “President Obama needs to request full funding from the start so that Congress is less likely to

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Maine has now received $39,981,695 from LIHEAP this season, which is drastically lower than the amount it received last year, according to

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U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, said the funding brings Maine’s current total to $39,981,695 compared to last year’s roughly $56.5 million According to Maine State Housing, the funding will increase the average benefit to roughly $483 per household receiving LIHEAP assistance, Snowe said.

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She repeated her call for Congress to immediately restore LIHEAP funding to last year’s levels when then Senate returns to session next week.

According to the National Energy Assistance Director’s Association, last year LIHEAP provided energy assistance to 8.9 million households – an increase of 54 percent since 2008.

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Leak in police chief search upsets city

BY MATTHEW ARCO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Portland's human resources director says he was “distressed” to learn that the identity of at least one of the five candidates applying to be the city's new police chief was leaked to the public.

Mike Miles, director of HR for the city of Portland, made the statement in an e-mail to members of the interview panels tasked with narrowing the scope of candidates vying for the position. The letter was sent shortly after an out-of-state applicant expressed concerns about being contacted by a reporter in Portland, according to the note.

"He was understandably upset," Miles wrote. "We promised these candidates confidentiality, and at least this candidate's confidentiality has been compromised."

The candidate, who was not identified by name in the e-mail, reported to the city that a fellow officer had taken a phone message from a Portland reporter about candidacy for the city's police chief position.

"I am asking you to redouble efforts to protect candidates' confidentiality," Miles said. "If a reporter calls you with an inquiry, please let them know that we have made a promise of confidentiality that we need to keep."

The city's commitment of anonymity was, among other concerns, made in order not to discourage qualified applicants — who don't want their current employers alerted to their job search — from applying for the position, said Nicole Clegg, a city spokeswoman.

"We made a commitment to the candidates that we would keep their names confidential, and we intend to honor that," she said Thursday.

“We promised these candidates confidentiality, and at least this candidate’s confidentiality has been compromised.” — Mike Miles, director of human resources for the city of Portland Clegg explained an e-mail was sent to members of the interview panels earlier in the month to update them on the hiring process. The message included information about when candidates would be arriving in Portland for on-sight interviews, as well as the candidates' names and resumés.

Clegg said the information in that e-mail was leaked to at least two media outlets, which included The Portland Daily Sun. The Sun has learned that possible finalists include two internal applicants, a candidate from Massachusetts, another from Maine and a fifth applicant from a populated city located in the Midwest. The finalists' identities could not be confirmed.

The interview panels met with the candidates on Jan. 13. Interviews took place between about 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Applicants spent the following day taking part in assessment center testing, which includes going through simulations of scenarios that chiefs face, such as budgeting and public safety issues.

The city has spent about $1,000 for hotel accommodations and travel to Portland for the two-day on-sight assessment and interviews, Clegg said. The costs included airfare for one candidate and hotel rooms for two candidates at the Portland Regency Hotel & Spa. Maine state law allows municipalities to withhold resumés from the public unless the applicant

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Yarmouth man accused of sexually assaulting minor DAILY SUN STAFF REPORTS A 23-yearold Yarmouth man is accused of sexually assaulting a South Portland minor under the age of 14, police said.

Ronald Grant Thurston III was charged Thurston with gross sexual assault Thursday following information received by the Westbrook Police Department the previous night, according to officials.

The reported sex crime is alleged to have occurred sometime during summer of 2011.

A joint investigation into the claim took place Thursday.

The investigation is ongoing,

and police say additional charges are anticipated.

SoPo officer hit again; driver clipped cruiser A Cape Elizabeth woman is accused of clipping the parked cruiser of a South Portland Police officer — the same officer who was seriously injured in a previous incident involving a motorist.

Wednesday night at approximately 8 p.m., Officer Rocco Navarro was conducting a traffic stop on Broadway, near Scammon Street, and he was exiting his cruiser, when a Jeep Wrangler clipped the partially open cruiser door, South Portland Police reported.

The Wrangler pulled in front of the cruiser, then veered to the left away from the car that the officer had stopped, police said. The Jeep did not stop and continued east on Broadway. Officer Navarro advised other units that he had been struck and the driver had not stopped. Officer Scott Corbett subsequently located the Jeep

on Mitchell Road. After further investigation, the driver, Elizabeth Hunt, 55, of Cape Elizabeth, was taken into custody and transported to the police station, police said.

Hunt was ultimately issued court summonses on charges of OUI and Leaving the Scene of a Motor Vehicle Collision, both misdemeanor offenses. The incident will be forwarded to the District Attorney’s Office for consideration, police said.

“We have previously had officers, including Officer Navarro, injured by members of the motoring public,” stated a press release from Lt. Frank Clark.

Navarro suffered serious injuries in the fall of 2010 when a pickup truck crashed into his cruiser while he was parked behind a stranded motorist on the Casco Bay Bridge. Police say the driver who hit the parked cruiser, David Zografos of South Portland, was talking on his cell phone. Zografos, who was uninjured, was charged with failing to maintain control of a motor vehicle.

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Nearby states have similar rules, with the exception in some cases that a candidate's qualifications are a matter of public record.

In New Hampshire, some information — including an applicant's qualifications for a municipal position — is a matter of public record, said Richard Head, an associate attorney general in New Hampshire.

"I would suspect that there would be some redaction of names, addresses and identifying information," he said.

In Massachusetts and Connecticut, information may be disclosed during public committee meetings, though some expectations are made that allow the formation of internal committees that are not subject to open meeting rules.

A final applicant will be selected by City Manager Mark Rees. His appointment will need to be confirmed by the City Council.

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Trustees like idea of new signs, but balk at paying for study

BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Tourists complain that the city's decades-old, wooden "hoop" signs — those tall, curved directional signs scattered around Portland — don't cut it.

Transportation officials say that the city, the Convention and Visitor's Bureau, and the Portland Downtown District field complaints that when it's time for an out-of-towner to find Merrill Auditorium, the Cumberland County Civic Center or other destinations, these signs aren't adequate, leaving visitors lost in a maze of streets.

Even so, a city push to study a new and improved way to set up directional signs was met with skepticism from at least one board. The trustees of the Civic Center said they'd consider spending a requested contribution of $2,000 on actual signs, but not for a study.

"I told them that we didn't have any money, but that I would bring the issue to the board," Stephen Crane, general manager of the Civic Center, told the Civic Center board during its midweek meeting.

Crane received a letter from Jan Beitzer, executive director of the Portland Downtown District, seeking matching funds for a "wayfinding" study.

"As you are aware the city of Portland has received planning funds in order to create a vehicular wayfinding system for the peninsula including exit signs off (Interstate) 295. ..." the

Jan. 3 letter reads. "We need to raise $10,000 in matching funds for the city to move this project forward. PDD, the Greater Portland Convention and Visitors Center and the Portland Community Chamber are all contributing $2,000 to this effort and we are asking the Civic Center to also contribute $2,000."

Beitzer, a member of a city wayfinding committee, concluded the letter by saying the signage update would dovetail with an upcoming $33 million renovation of the downtown arena.

Crane said that as general manager of the Civic Center, he remembered hearing the public complain about the difficulty of finding parking for Civic Center events.

"Everybody that went to the hearings on the renovation and listened to the people who did testify, the biggest issue was parking," he said. "My contention over the years is that the parking, at least at night, is not the problem, it's the informational aspect, the signage coming into Portland, directing people to the Civic Center area, is weak and didn't completely do the job."

Civic Center Board Chairman Neal Pratt said about 4,800 parking spots lie within a five- to six-minute walk of the Civic Center, based on information gleaned from a past analysis.

Yet he and other trustees balked at spending money on a study.

"I distinguish between the study and the signs," Pratt said. see SIGNS page 9

A pedestrian “wayfinding” sign guides visitors in Portland from the intersection of High and Congress streets. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Friday, January 20, 2012— Page 9

Edmonds: ‘I’m not a proponent of yet another study’ SIGNS from page 8

"We could improve signage not just on how to get to the Civic Center, but Civic Center parking. The parking is there," he said, adding, "I'm not convinced that another study needs to be done."

Civic Center trustee Beth Edmonds asked, "This $2,000, is that for the actual signs or just for the study?"

Told that the contributions would provide matching funds for a study, she said, "I'd pay $2,000 for the signs, I'm not a proponent of yet another study."

The wayfinding study would create a "comprehensive district map" covering the peninsula "and major origins and destinations in close proximity," including a proposed $100 million office, arena and convention center development at Portland's Thompson Point; the Portland Transportation Center; and the campus of University of Southern Maine.

A request for proposals from the Portland Area Comprehensive Transportation System, a regional planning organization, added that the study consultant would seek input from bicycle and pedestrian advocates, neighborhood associations and other groups to map out the network of signs.

In its Dec. 5 request for proposals, PACTS is seeking a contractor to develop the "Portland Peninsula Vehicular Wayfinding Plan." PACTS wrote that the new study would "build on" a 2008 PACTS-funded study "to establish policies and graphic conventions for a comprehensive wayfinding for the city."

Civic Center Trustee Brian Dudley wondered if the analysis would amount to study overkill.

"It's a study that's going to study four previous studies," he said.

Dudley also questioned the allocation of cost, wondering why money wasn't solicited from developers of The Forefront at Thompson's Point — a development spearheaded by owners of the Maine Red Claws basketball team who received a $31 million, 30-year tax break from the city.

"They're approaching us, there are some other folks in here, but what about the Forefront, what about Merrill Auditorium? I could see them benefiting from this as well, and I don't see them as having any skin in the game," Dudley said. "I guess I would be more comfortable if I thought they were being approached."

Linda Boudreau, Civic Center trustee, said good signs could celebrate the newly renovated Civic Center, but also wondered why the burden wasn't spread more evenly.

"I do have a concern that they're talking about a number of entities here that they're not hitting up for money," she said.

Beitzer said the Portland Downtown District, the Chamber of Commerce and the Convention and Visitor Bureau are all helping to fund the match for vehicular wayfinding, but she said the city is spearheading the effort and would be able to elaborate on the solicitation of contributions.

City spokeswoman Nicole Clegg said the effort to raise matching funds is open ended.

"The city is committed to working with the Portland Downtown District, the Portland Community LEFT: Ernie Colello (right) and Harry Labrecque mount a sign on Congress Street near Oak Street in November 2009, one of 29 new Portland Downtown District pedestrian wayfinding signs that were installed at the time. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)

Chamber and the Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater Portland to see the second phase of the sign program become a reality," Clegg said in a statement. "Our hope is that other private organizations or businesses that will benefit from enhanced wayfinding will help in the effort to raise the needed $10,000 in matching funds for the study."

Beitzer said the science of signage is more refined today than it was 20 years ago.

"This is a replacement, all those hoop signs will go away," she said. "They don't meet any standard of getting you from one place to another. They're not specific enough."

The development of a study is necessary because "we want it to be coordinated," and she likened a wayfinding network to a building.

'It's like going from an architect's rendering of a building, to, 'OK, this is where you put the two-by-

fours.' There's a science to signage," Beitzer said.

"Tourism is our No. 1 business, it's just part of what good cities do as part of infrastructure," she said.

"What this does is really say, 'Wow, we need it here, we need it here, this is what it's going to say,' it includes the entire peninsula and Thompson's Point."

On exits from Interstate 295, major gateways are likely to be marked, Beitzer said.

In Maine, the town of Bath has completed wayfinding, and Burlington, Vt. and Portsmouth, N.H. also have established coordinated signage, she said.

"They're clean, they're easy to read, they're the right size for somebody driving down the street at the speed limit, they're spaced so you don't get halfway up a street and you don't know which way to go," Beitzer said.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Disable your call waiting for a while and do the equivalent in other areas of your life as well. Arrange things so that once you are really involved in an activity you are unlikely to be interrupted.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

You have strong instincts about money now. You’ll make a plan and follow through with it, and soon money will flow to you through new channels. You have a good use for it, too.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

Just because you share the same bloodline with a person doesn’t mean that you have similar beliefs. Talks on the topic of religion or politics can lead to trouble among family members.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Certain promises have been made, and this is an excellent time to collect on favors, material items and money owed to you.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You’ll easily fall into the tendency to put too much pressure on yourself. Don’t require that you others like and admire you. Mix and mingle with the simple intention of having a good time.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Jan. 20).

You’ll be a person of action right from the start of your new year, and you’ll approach your endeavors with great energy and speed. Regular contact with loved ones will be the key to building relationships over the next three months. Travel and adventure in May will introduce you to new business.

Money will be more plentiful in July.

Aries and Gemini adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 40, 1, 22, 48 and 17.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). Just because it’s the way you’ve always been doing it doesn’t mean it’s the way you have to do it today. Nothing is written in stone. Agreements are broken every day.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). If it’s not going right, you’ll recognize the problem and take action to reverse the trend. Take care not to say “maybe” when what you really mean is “no way.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). No matter how perceptive you are at judging people, you’ll make a mistake or two along the way. You won’t be sorry if you err on the side of belief. No one will ever fool you twice though.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). The Latin expression (SET ITAL) quid pro quo (END ITAL) means “something for something.” You’ll get the feeling that someone is doing a favor for you because they expect one immediately from you in return.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You’ll enjoy home decorating and arranging your domestic scene in a way that is pleasing to you and anyone lucky enough to come into your world. You are naturally good at creating an open, friendly environment.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You’ll learn form others as you have conversations that bounce more or less equally from person to person. The one who drones on and doesn’t lob the conversational ball back is not being open to learning LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). The question of whether to add a new gadget to your scene will come up.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Friday, Jan. 20, the 20th day of 2012 with 346 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: In 1265, Britain’s House of Commons, which became a model for parliamentary bodies, met for the first time.

On this date: In 1783, U.S. and British representatives signed a preliminary “Cessation of Hostilities,” which ended the fighting in the Revolutionary War. In 1892, the first officially recognized basketball game was played at the YMCA gym in Springfield, Mass.

In 1936, Edward VIII becomes king of the United Kingdom.

In 1945, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the only president to be elected to four terms in office, was inaugurated to his final term. He died three months later and was succeeded by Harry Truman.

In 1961, John Fitzgerald Kennedy began his presidency with inauguration ceremonies on the newly renovated east front of the Capitol.

In 1981, Ronald Reagan was inaugurated as the 40th president of the United States. That same day, 52 American hostages were released by Iran after 444 days in captivity.

In 1990, at least 62 civilians were killed and more than 200 wounded when the Soviet army stormed into Baku to end what Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev called fratricidal killing between Muslim Azerbaijanis and Christian Armenians.

Also in 1993, Oscar-winning actress Audrey Hepburn died of cancer at her home in Switzerland. She was 63.

In 1995, a strike-shortened National Hockey League season opened with teams playing a 48-game schedule instead of the usual 84.

In 1996, Yasser Arafat was elected president of the Palestinian Authority with 88 percent of the vote.

In 2001, George W. Bush was inaugurated as the 43rd president of the United States. Just hours before leaving office, U.S. President Bill Clinton issued 176 pardons -- a number of them controversial.

In 2003, Britain said it was sending 26,000 troops to the Persian Gulf for possible deployment to Iraq but France said it wouldn’t support a U.N. resolution for military action.

In 2007, U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., became the first former first lady to seek the U.S. presidency when she entered the race for the 2008 Democratic nomination.

In 2009, Barack Obama was sworn in as the United States’ 44th president and the nation’s first African-American chief executive. In an 18-minute inaugural address, he urged the more than 1 million people who braved the sub-freezing weather to hear him in person, to join him to “begin again the work of remaking America.”

Today’s Birthdays: Richard Henry Lee, American patriot and signer of the Declaration of Independence, in 1732; Harold Gray, creator of the comic strip “Little Orphan Annie,” in 1894; comedian George Burns in 1896; Italian film director Federico Fellini and actor DeForest Kelley, both in 1920; country singer Ottis “Slim” Whitman is 88; comic Arte Johnson is 83; astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, the second man to set foot on the moon, is 82; director David Lynch is 66; TV host Bill Maher is 56; and actor Lorenzo Lamas is 54.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX Dear Annie: My husband and I are in our early 50s. We have been married for one year and have not been intimate for six months. Until he transferred to a second-shift job, our bedroom was exciting. Now I’m not allowed to touch him.

Anything more than a hug and he pushes me away. I miss how we once were. He says he hasn’t been feeling well but refuses to see a doctor or a counselor.

If he’s not willing to discuss this further, it’s hard to know what to do or think. I love him dearly, and he tells me he loves me, too, but with all these mixed signals, I’m not so sure. Any ideas? -- Boston Beauty Dear Boston: It’s possible the job switch is exhausting him, or there could be something at work that is making him unwell. Or he could have met someone else on his new shift.

There are other possibilities, but if he refuses to see a doctor or a counselor, it means he prefers to leave things as they are, and this is unacceptable. Please see a counselor on your own and figure out your next step.

Dear Annie: We became close to one set of neighbors over the years. Their 17-year-old daughter often baby-sat our two children, ages 9 and 11.

Six months ago, we attended a social event together while their daughter stayed with our kids and one of their friends, who was sleeping over. At some point, the sitter walked the kids to her parents’ house, took their car (she had just gotten her driver’s license) and drove them to a local ice cream store where her friends were working. She told the kids not to tell their parents.

Three days later, our 9-year-old accidentally spilled the beans. I called the sitter and fired her, and then I told her mother what had happened. Her only response was, “Well, it wasn’t illegal.” We haven’t spoken since.

Two weeks ago, I texted the sitter and told her to call me

so we could fix this mess already. I hoped she would apologize to my wife, even though she has not admitted she did anything wrong. Instead, her mother texted me back and told me to leave her daughter alone. She then reminded me that I never paid the girl for sitting that night. I am still in absolute shock. Any advice? -- Upstate N.Y. Dad Dear Dad: This girl showed terrible judgment, but that is not unusual for a 17-year-old. She should have apologized immediately for putting your children at risk and doing something without your permission. You should have forgiven her, with the understanding that it would not happen again. It would have been better if her mother had not become involved, although we suspect the sitter was in tears after being fired and Mom thought she was protecting her.

To resolve this, please walk over to the neighbors’ house and pay the girl the money you owe her in person. Then, gently and kindly, explain that her behavior that evening alarmed you and made you question how responsible she is.

Give her the opportunity to apologize. We hope she will.

Dear Annie: Like “Road Worrier,” I was unable to get my mother, who was legally blind with macular degeneration, to give up driving. She always said a prayer before getting behind the wheel.

Living in different states made it difficult, so I spoke with an attorney, who told Mom that either she gets rid of the car or I would ask for legal guardianship and make ALL her future choices. She was furious but knew I meant business.

The car was gone within a week. Her anger didn’t last long, but I was willing to risk a permanent estrangement. It would have been worth saving the life of someone’s child whom she eventually would have killed. -- Did What Needed To Be Done

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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Violette was charged with felony theft Wednesday in connection with numerous gift cards and turnpike-issued credit cards, the Portland Press Herald reported. Violette, a Portland resident and former state legislator, resigned from the turnpike authority last March after 23 years as its executive director Terms of the plea agreement have not been released, according to the paper. Violette’s attorney, Peter DeTroy, confirmed the settlement yesterday but did not comment on the plea.

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BY ABBY GOODNOUGH THE NEW YORK TIMES

BOSTON — Two years ago, Scott P. Brown was a little-known state legislator on the cusp of one of the biggest upset victories in modern politics: capturing Edward M. Kennedy’s longtime Senate seat in this overwhelmingly Democratic state, costing that party its filibuster-proof majority and becoming a Republican sensation.

Mr. Brown will return to candidate mode on Thursday, opening his re-election campaign with a rally in Worcester on the anniversary of his victory and leaping into what will likely be one of the most expensive, scrutinized and suspenseful races in the nation this year.

His presumed Democratic opponent, Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard professor and consumer advocate, has enchanted her party’s national base and raised $9 million in a mere five months. And while Mr. Brown has more money, more fame and other advantages of incumbency, he is already running hard as polls suggest a tight race.

“No one’s ever going to outwork me,” Mr. Brown said in an interview Tuesday. “It’s just a question of reminding people why they voted for me and pointing out the very, very clear differences between Professor Warren and me.” So far, that involves portraying Ms. Warren as a partisan ideologue and himself as a thoughtful independent who abhors the interparty sniping that has paralyzed Capitol Hill.

It also means embracing a label that former Gov. Mitt Romney has run away from in the Republican presidential primary race: “Massachusetts moderate.”

Betting that the independent voters who make up a majority here will admire his record of breaking ranks with Republicans, Mr. Brown has been pointing to several high-profile votes, including his support for the Dodd-Frank bill, which overhauled financial regulation, and the repeal of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.

More recently, Mr. Brown was the lone Republican to support President Obama’s nomination of Richard Cordray, a former Ohio attorney general, to lead the new Consumer Financial Protection Agency that Ms. Warren helped set up in Washington. He even defended the president’s recess appointment of Mr. Cordray this month.

“It’s going to be tougher to make Brown into Darth Vader when he’s working hard to be somewhere in the middle,” said Jack Corrigan, a Boston-based veteran of Democratic campaigns.

Mr. Corrigan has joked that Mr. Brown wants to present himself as “the third woman from Maine,” a reference to Mr. Brown’s fellow Republican swing votes in the Senate, Olympia J. Snowe and Susan Collins.

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Friday, Jan. 20 2012 eco-Excellence Awards nominations 5 p.m. The 2012 eco-Excellence Awards nominations are due by Jan. 20. The awards are given annually in recognition of “green” activities by ecomaine, a nonprofit recycling and waste disposal operation that is municipally owned and operated. Michael Bobinsky chair of the ecomaine Board of Directors and director of Portland Public Services, said, “Each one of the 43 communities served by ecomaine can win an award – it’s a great opportunity to recognize a person, group or business that has made a difference in your community.” The judging of entries will be done by members of the ecomaine Recycling Committee. Troy Moon (Portland), chair of the committee, and a member of the board of directors, said all the recipients and their nominators will be invited to an awards luncheon given in their honor in Portland on Wednesday, March 7. “At that time,” said Moon, “we will present the individual awards and announce the Grand Award winners for community and business.” The brief entry forms and information about previous winners can be found on-line at www.ecomaine.org or requested by phoning 523-3108.

The Facebook Portrait Project 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Portland Museum of Art, Great Hall. Artist Tanja Alexia Hollander invites you to stop by the museum.

The Are You Really My Friend? exhibition will open in February. On Friday, Jan. 20, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., the public is invited to Collaborative Confessional: Tanja Alexia Hollander and the Facebook Portrait Project. www.portlandmuseum.org/Content/6628.shtml

‘Notes from the Frontlines of the Climate Fight’ 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. The University of New England’s Center for Global Humanities has partnered with the Maine Humanities Council to provide local discussions and live streaming of Bill McKibben’s lecture on “Local And Global: Notes from the Frontlines of the Climate Fight.” Portland Public Library will host the streamed lecture and discussion from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Owen Grumbling, Professor of Environmental Literature and Chair of the Department of Environmental Studies will facilitate a discussion around the lecture. Grumbling will focus on McKibben’s book, Eaarth, and the issue of climate change. Participants are encouraged to read the book ahead of time.

Maine Academy of Modern Music benefit 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The Maine Academy of Modern Music is hosting a benefit at The Big Easy (55 Market St., Portland) to raise funds for its music programs. “The whole family can rock to live music from The Twisted Truth, Beware of Pedestrians, Static and Phantom Companion from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. and the 21-plus crowd can rock a little harder from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. with the addition of The Trickle Down and LQH. Admission is $5.

‘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.

Film: Future Shorts Pop-Up Film Fesival 7:30 p.m. SPACE Gallery. “The Future Shorts Festival is the biggest pop up film festival of its kind, showcasing the most exciting short films from around the world. Anyone, anywhere can set up a screening, forming a massive network of cinematic events and becoming part of a powerful global community.” $8/$6 for SPACE members and students with ID. www.space538.org/events.php

‘A Midsummer’s Night Dream’ 8 p.m. “A Midsummer’s Night Dream” by Portland Players continues through Jan. 29 with performances Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.; Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Portland Players is located at 420 Cottage Road in South Portland. Call 7997337 or go to portlandplayers.org.

Saturday, Jan. 21 Wings of Winter with Maine Audubon 9 a.m. Wings of Winter with Maine Audubon. “Join this annual field trip to several of Greater Portland’s birding hot spots. Starting at Back Cove, we’ll scan for waterfowl, then work our way around the East End to Portland’s waterfront to check the congregations of gulls for unusual species, including Iceland, glaucous, and lesser black-backed. From there we’ll cross the bridge to Willard Beach and work our

Garry Glatz with Independence BioFuel delivers heating oil to a residence on North Street and Cumberland Avenue in early February 2010.

“With a recent spike in oil prices and cuts to the Low Income Heating Assistance Program (LIHEAP) threatening to leave many Mainers out in the cold, Southern Maine Community College (SMCC) is offering free weatherization courses to help ease the burden of the Maine winter,” SMCC reported. “The classes, offered through SMCC’s Continuing Studies Department, will be taught at the Sustainable Energy Alternatives Center (SEA Center) on the South Portland campus.” The workshop will be offered on two dates: the first on Tuesday, Jan. 24 (6 p.m. to 8 p.m.) and the second on Saturday, Jan. 28 (9 a.m. to 11 a.m.). (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO) way along the Cape Elizabeth shore to Portland Head Light, Two Lights State Park, and Kettle Cove (time and weather permitting). Expect to see loons, grebes, great cormorant, at least eight duck species, and other seabirds. Luck may turn up a Barrow’s goldeneye, brant, or possibly a king eider. Limited to 12 participants (5 in the van).” Advance registration is necessary. For those with questions, call 7812330 or email programs@maineaudubon.org.

WMPG Power Up! Open House 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. “WMPG Community Radio’s Power Up! signal improvement project is a success! After years of planning, fund-raising, and hard work, WMPG is now broadcasting a new more powerful signal, reaching radios from southern York County to the Augusta area, and west to Central New Hampshire. To celebrate this important milestone with our listeners, supporters and volunteers, WMPG is holding a day-long Power Up! Open House on Saturday, Jan. 21, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Please join us by listening to 90.9 or 104.1 FM, or stop by in person at 92 Bedford Street on the Portland campus of the University of Southern Maine for our transmitter-warming party! On that day you’ll hear special celebratory programming on the air all day long, with live music, voices from the past, and live and recorded calls from our new expanded listening area. The theme of the Power Up! Open House is ‘Same Community Radio ... MUCH More Community!’ At the WMPG studios, 92 Bedford Street on the Portland campus of the University of Southern Maine.”

Saturday, Jan. 21, we will hold a bone marrow drive at the Cumberland County Civic Center with the hope that we can find a match. Representatives from the bone marrow bank will be in the Captain’s Club off the lobby of the Civic Center from 2-5 p.m. on Saturday to register and take samples from potential donors. The process is very simple, fast and non-invasive. Potential donors will be asked to fill out a form, answer a few questions and have a series of swabs taken from their mouth. No needles, no pain! We hope you can take 15 minutes out of your day on Saturday to register.

You may hold the key to providing this life saving treatment to Ed or to someone else in the future.”

Benefit for Jeremy Lester Fire Relief Fund 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. “Benefit for local musician Jeremy Lester, who lost his home and all his earthly possessions in a tragic fire three weeks before Christmas. He also spent two weeks in the hospital, and had no insurance of any kind. Local musicians are encouraged to attend and show your support for one of our own. Silent auction items and volunteers to bring a potluck dish also needed. Contact Ken Grimsley or Elks Lodge manager John Plumley (797 5791). Confirmed musical acts include The Ken Grimsley Band, Capt. Ray & The Castaways, Naked Cowgirl, Live Bait feat. Jeff Merrow, M.J. Brink, and ... wait for it ... Greta Schaefer!” http://www. ridinsteel.com/apps/calendar/showEvent?calID=2578581& eventID=164253172

‘The Mystery of Ice Mountain’

Nor’Easters Synchronized Skating Teams

11 a.m. and 1 p.m. The Dolly Wagglers present “The Mystery of Ice Mountain,” puppet show for all ages. Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St., Portland. Run Time approx 30 minutes. $8 adults/ $4 kids under 12. www.mayostreetarts.org. The Dolly Wagglers present “The Mystery of Ice Mountain” at Mayo Street Arts. “It is about an adventure in a remote, icy landscape with some exotic creatures of the colder climes.

Slapstick, life-sized puppets, and ventriloquism are just a few of the old-world tricks the Dolly Wagglers may pull from their sleeves. Audiences of all ages will enjoy the show. This puppet show is part of The Children’s Puppet Workshop — a series of puppet-themed workshops and performances for the community at Mayo Street Arts. Sponsored in part

by The Virginia Hodgkins Somers Foundation, Portland Community Policing, and Coffee By Design.”

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.

Bone marrow screening for Ed Greenleaf 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Bone marrow screening for Ed Greenleaf.

“One of our long-time and valued employees, Ed Greenleaf, has been diagnosed with Lymphoma. Ed is in need of a bone marrow transplant from a compatible donor. On

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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.”

Monday, Jan. 23 Young drivers’ safety discussion 6 p.m. “Conversations with the Communities,” a public discussion regarding ways to improve the safety of Maine’s young drivers. The Secretary of State’s “Conversations with the Communities” were scheduled to be held on the following dates at the local Bureau of Motor Vehicle Offices: Tuesday, Jan. 17 in Bangor at 6 p.m.; Wednesday, Jan. 18 in Caribou at 6 p.m.; and Thursday, Jan. 19 in Calais at 5:30 p.m. All are welcome to attend.

For a complete schedule of “Conversations with the Community” including addresses to the motor vehicle locations or for information and instructions on joining the discussion via Webinar, please visit the Secretary of State’s website at www.maine.gov/sos/.

‘A Journey to Darfur’ 7 p.m. The Meg Perry Center, 644 Congress St., Portland.

Fur Cultural Revival (part of The Darfur Community Center of Maine) is proud to present the documentary film, “A Journey to Darfur” starring George Clooney. This film will be shown for free on Monday, January 23, 2011 at 7:00 PM at The Meg Perry Center, 644 Congress Street in Portland, Maine. The public is encouraged to attend. The event is all ages and free. The film will be followed by a discussion and a short presentation by El-Fadel Arbab, America’s primary spokesperson for the Darfuri refugee diaspora, who will speak about the ongoing Genocide throughout Sudan.

Tuesday, Jan. 24 SMCC offers free weatherization courses 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. “With a recent spike in oil prices and cuts to the Low Income Heating Assistance Program (LIHEAP) threatening to leave many Mainers out in the cold, Southern Maine Community College (SMCC) is offering free weatherization courses to help ease the burden of the Maine winter.

The classes, offered through SMCC’s Continuing Studies Department, will be taught at the Sustainable Energy Alternatives Center (SEA Center) on the South Portland campus.” The workshop will be offered on two dates: the first on Tuesday, Jan. 24 (6 p.m. to 8 p.m.) and the second on Saturday, Jan. 28 (9 a.m. to 11 a.m.). “The federal government recently announced that funding for Maine’s LIHEAP program would be reduced to $23 million, a $33 million cut from previous levels. In addition to reduced aid, Maine families are facing rapidly increasing fuel costs, with the price of heating oil increasing by $.13 a gallon during the month of January.”

Film: Urbanized at SPACE 7:30 p.m. SPACE Gallery film screening. “‘Urbanized’ (the third part of Gary Hustwit’s design film trilogy, joining ‘Helvetica’ and ‘Objectified’) is a feature-length documentary about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world’s foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers. Followed by Q&A with Noah Chasin, Assistant Professor at Bard College and Mitchell Rasor of MRLD Landscape Architecture + Design. Co-Presented by AIGA Maine and MRLD Landscape Architecture + Urbanism.” $7/$5 for SPACE members, free for AIGA Maine, all ages. www. space538.org/events.php

Wednesday, Jan. 25 Walker Memorial Library computer classes 10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. Walker Memorial Library is deep into the digital age and invites you to learn more about computers with us. Starting Wednesday, Jan. 25, staff will offer computer discussion classes. Sign up and join us.

10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. we will offer short discussion and demonstrations related to computers and what they can do for you. All sessions are free yet limited to six persons

at each session. Signup for each session recommended.

854-0630, ext. 5 .

Herrera, the cast made his transition from actor to director easier than it could have been.

‘If A Tree Falls’ screening 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. “If A Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front,” at the Portland Public Library. The Portland Public Library announces its Winter Documentary Film Series, to be held Wednesday’s throughout the winter from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Rines Auditorium at the Main Library. Dates for the series are: Jan. 25, Feb. 1, Feb. 22 and Feb. 29, and March 7, March 21 and March 28. This series is made possible by a partnership between the Portland Public Library and POV (Point of View), Public Television’s premier documentary series. Films are offered free to the public and facilitated group discussions will be offered after select showings. The award-winning POV series is the longest-running showcase on American television to feature the work of today’s best independent documentary filmmakers. POV has brought more than 300 acclaimed documentaries to millions nationwide and has a Webby Award-winning online series, POV’s Borders. Since 1988, POV has pioneered the art of presentation and outreach using independent nonfiction media to build new communities in conversation about today’s most pressing social issues. For more information visit www.pbs.org/pov.

Free For All opening reception 6 p.m. SPACE Gallery exhibit opening. “Come celebrate the opening of our salon style exhibit Free For All. The walls will be stacked with art from emerging and established artists, in a range of subject, size and medium. It’ a true Free For All!” www.space538.org/events.php

Wind Power discussion 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Gilsland Farm Sanctuary, Falmouth, Maine Audubon. Kate Williams, Wildlife and Renewable Energy Program Director at the Biodiversity Research Institute, has worked with shorebirds, wading birds, seabirds, passerines, fishes, and mammals across Maine and internationally. Kate will be providing an overview of wildlife issues related to wind power development, both onshore and offshore, with a focus on birds and bats. She will also discuss current studies in this arena, and discuss proposals for offshore wind farms in Maine. Free.

‘Next Fall’ by Good Theater 7 p.m. “Next Fall” by Geoffrey Nauffts, Jan. 25 to Feb. 19.

“Good Theater presents the Maine premiere of this recent Best Play Tony Award nominee. A charming, funny and touching play about life and love from one of the writers of the hit TV series, Brothers & Sisters.” Directed by Brian P. Allen and starring Joe Bearor, Rob Cameron, Matt Delamater, Moira Driscoll Abbie Killeen and Tony Reilly. St Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress St. Wednesdays 7 p.m. ($15), Thursdays 7 p.m. ($20), Fridays 7:30 p.m. ($20), Saturday 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

Andy Andrews at Merrill 7 p.m. Presented by Begin Doing, Andy Andrews is a New York Times bestselling author, speaker and peak performance coach to Fortune 500 companies. He appears consistently on CNN, FOX news and ABC’s Good Morning America. His book, “The Traveler’s Gift,” remained on the New York Times bestseller list for 17 weeks. “His keynote address will be a combination of pure entertainment mixed with the same tips he’s given Fortune 500 companies to create success: personal, financial, and in other facets of life.” For more information please call 842-0800. https://tickets.porttix.com/public/ show.asp

Thursday, Jan. 26 Mad Horse Theatre Company’s ‘Becky Shaw’ production 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 Mad Horse Theatre Company has produced a work by Gionfriddo. It also marks the directorial debut of company member James Herrera, who jumped at the chance to helm a cast made up entirely of Mad Horse Theatre Company members. According to

Friday, Jan. 27 Portland Sea Dogs Food Drive 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Portland Sea Dogs have announced that the organization will hold its 12th annual Food Drive which will run from now through Friday, Jan. 27. All the collected food items will be donated to the Good Shepherd Food Bank. As in the past, this year’s food drive will be “Buy One, Bring One, Get One.” “For every ticket purchased and every donated food item you bring, you will receive a free Sea Dogs ticket to the same game. For example, if you buy three tickets to the June 7 game and bring in three food items, you will receive three additional complimentary tickets of equal or lesser value to the June 7 game. The offer is good for Box Seats, Reserved, General Admission, and Pavilion seating; subject to availability. Fans may take advantage of this offer by bringing their non-perishable food items to the Hadlock Field Box Office. The Sea Dogs Ticket Office is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Each year the Sea Dogs have been able to donate hundreds of food items to the Good Shepherd Food Bank thanks to the generosity of Sea Dogs’ fans.

The Sea Dogs open the 2012 season on the road with a 4:05 p.m. doubleheader in Reading, Penn., against the Reading Phillies. The home opener is slated for Thursday, April 12 at 6 p.m. against the Binghamton Mets at Hadlock Field. The 2012 season will be the Sea Dogs 19th year in Portland and 10th as a Boston Red Sox affiliate.” Tickets can be purchased by calling the Sea Dogs Ticket Office at 879-9500 and online at www.seadogs.com.

Movies at the Museum, ‘One for the Road’ 6:30 p.m. Movies at the Museum, “One for the Road,” Portland Museum of Art. Friday, Jan. 27, 7 p.m.; Saturday, Jan. 28, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.; Sunday, Jan. 29, 2 p.m. NR. www. portlandmuseum.org/events

‘Sailing with Paper’ at Constellation 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. “Sailing with Paper” at Constellation Gallery.

Constellation artist Jos Ruks is offering a free demonstration and hands-on workshop “Sailing with Paper.” “Jos will be teaching you how to expand your paper-art horizons beyond traditional origami! Materials for attendees are provided free of charge. Light refreshments provided.” Constellation Gallery, 511 Congress St., Portland. 409-6617.

Saturday, Jan. 28 ‘Puss ‘n Boots’ 11 a.m. This winter, Acorn Productions’ “Fairy Tale Players,” an ensemble of children, teens and adults who have studied at the Acorn Acting Academy, continues its third season of productions with Producing Director Michael Levine’s adaptation of “Puss ‘n Boots.” “The production is suitable for audiences of all ages, and centers around the story of a clever cat who helps her mistress win the love of a prince by pretending to be the Marquis de Carrabas.

Along the way, we meet a crazy cast of characters including spoiled sisters, a foolish hare, and a lonely ogre. Acorn’s comedic version of the well-known fairy tale is directed by Karen Ball, and the script includes references to King Lear and the Occupy Wall Street Movement for the more sophisticated audience members. There are 8 actors ranging in age from 9 to 17 in the show, which runs from Jan. 28 to Feb. 12 in the Acorn Studio Theater in Westbrook.” Saturday, Jan. 28 at 11 a.m.; Sunday, Jan. 29 at 2 p.m.; Saturday, Feb. 4 at 11 a.m.; Sunday, Feb. 5 at 2 p.m.; Saturday, Feb. 11 at 11 a.m.; Sunday, Feb. 12 at 2 p.m. Acorn Studio Theater, Dana Warp Mill, 90 Bridge St., Westbrook. Admission: $8 adults; $6 kids 12 and under. FMI: www.acorn-productions.org or 854-0065

Club 86 comedy and music 7:30 p.m. Near Sighted Productions and SPACE Gallery present “Club 86,” an evening of comedy and music featuring special guest, Grammy award saxophone virtuoso, Charlie Neville of the Neville Brothers. The evening features the first live performance of “Club 86,” an exciting new radio series in the tradition of A Prairie Home Companion and The Vinyl Café. Charlie Neville will appear as himself in “Club 86” and will perform a solo set afterwards. Charlie Neville’s solo work as a jazz saxophonist has been hailed around the world. The evening includes music from the Club 86 Ensemble, led by noted jazz pianist Jesse Lynch plus music/ spoken word collaborations with a prominent member of Portland’s arts community, poet and spoken word performer Gil Helmick. Club 86 is a weekly series following the sometimes reluctant, sometimes clumsy, always entertaining reactions of employees and patrons of a local tavern in Lewiston as the new manager strives to re-brand the club as a showcase for local and national performing artists.

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