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Developer: Thompson’s Point project at risk if tax breaks delayed

Cool day for a festival

Some councilors irked by ‘unusual’ special meeting

BY CASEY CONLEY THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

The proposed $100 million project at Thompson’s Point could fall apart if the city doesn’t act on $31 million in tax breaks by month's end, developers said yesterday.

Jon Jennings, a principal in the project known as “The Forefront,” said that “more

Jennings

than likely the project won’t go forward in Portland” if the tax breaks aren’t finalized by the end of June.

“We have asked for a time line that would get us through the process by the end of the month because we have some extraordinary costs we are obligated to do by the first part of July,” Jennings said.

He declined to comment on whether the project might move ahead in another municipality if it falls through in Portland.

Jennings added that the investment see THOMPSON’S POINT page 16

A fine how-do-you-do City to hire collections agency to chase unpaid parking tickets of out-of-staters

BY CASEY CONLEY THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Out-of-state drivers owe the city nearly $600,000 in unpaid parking tickets, but a new program scheduled to begin this year will attempt to get some of that money back.

City officials are currently in the process of hiring a collections agency that

will track down unpaid tickets issued to vehicles registered outside Maine. It’s not clear when the program will take effect, but the city is expecting the collections effort will yield at least $100,000 in new revenue by next July.

“We’ve never actively chased out-ofstate parking tickets,” said city finance director Ellen Sanborn. “We might send a see FINES page 3

Groups back bid to restore same-day voter registration

BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Ava Perkins, 3, perches on her dad’s shoulders at Sunday’s rain-dampened Old Port Festival. Her father, Josh Perkins, said the family came over from New Hampshire to see friends and enjoy the festivities. For photos and a report on this year’s one-day flurry of music, food, gifts and games, see pages 8-9. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Four bodies found in Dexter home See the story on page 3

In the waning days of the legislative session, one recent change to Maine law — the repeal of same-day voter registration — is fueling pushback, with a Facebook page cropping up urging a people's

veto to overturn the law.

"How would you feel about using the People's Veto in order to retain same day voter registration?" asks a new Facebook page, titled, "Same Day Voter Registration in Maine." see VOTERS page 6

How do you define Portland’s livability? Kitten placed in shelter after getting kicked See Opinion on page 4

See the story on page 13

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India seeks good hangman MEERUT, India (NY Times) — India has 1.2 billion people, among them bankers, gurus, rag pickers, billionaires, snake charmers, software engineers, lentil farmers, rickshaw drivers, Maoist rebels, Bollywood movie stars and Vedic scholars, to name a few. Humanity runneth over. Except in one profession: India is searching for a hangman.

Usually, India would not need one, given the rarity of executions. The last was in 2004. But in May, India’s president unexpectedly rejected a last-chance mercy petition from a convicted murderer in the Himalayan state of Assam. Prison officials, compelled to act, issued a call for a hangman.

The nation’s handful of known hangmen had either died, retired or disappeared. The situation was not too surprising, given the ambivalence within the Indian criminal justice system about executions.

Capital punishment was codified during British rule, with hanging as the chosen method, but recent decades of litigating and legislating limited the actual practice to “the rarest of rare cases.”

Magazines and newspapers published stories that read like macabre helpwanted ads: Large nation searching for someone willing to slip the noose around the neck of a murderer.

In Assam, state prison officials reluctantly began a search. Assam’s last execution was in 1990 and the memory still resonated with those who participated in it. “I was very conflicted,” Banikanta Baruah, a retired jailer who supervised the execution. “On one hand, I needed to perform my duty as a jailer, yet on the other, I sympathized with the person being hanged.”

Prison officials made calls to their peers in the states of West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh. West Bengal was home to Nata Mullick, who had conducted the country’s last hanging at the age of 87. But he died two years ago, so Assamese officials turned to Uttar Pradesh.

“They promised to send someone,” Mr. S. Thakuria said.

In Uttar Pradesh, the logical place to look was here in the city of Meerut, the home of a family known for executions. Kalu Kumar, himself the nephew of a hangman, had achieved national fame in 1989 by hanging one of the two assassins of Indira Gandhi, the former prime minister. He died several years ago but passed along the trade to his son, Mammu Singh, who claimed to have performed 11 hangings.

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Clinton presses African leaders to abandon Qaddafi

BY STEVEN LEE MYERS THE NEW YORK TIMES

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton bluntly warned African leaders on Monday that authoritarian governments ruled by aging despots were “no longer acceptable,” saying that those who refused democratic reforms would find themselves “on the wrong side of history.”

She also urged the African Union to end its lingering relations with Libya’s leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. American officials have been deeply frustrated by the African Union’s efforts to mediate on behalf of Colonel Qaddafi, who for decades lavished support on African leaders — many of them autocratic — and led the group two years ago.

She also called for a peaceful resolution of the fighting that has flared in Sudan ahead of the planned declaration of independence

by South Sudan on July 9. The violence, in the disputed territory of Abyei and increasingly in other regions along what will be the new border, has threatened to unravel a

peaceful separation that the Obama administration worked feverishly to ensure over the last year. Mrs. Clinton called the recent fight “deeply troubling.”

Talks aimed at resolving the dispute over Abyei took place in Addis Ababa over the last two days with Sudan’s president, Omar alBashir, in attendance. According to an American diplomat, Mr. Bashir agreed to withdraw his forces from the Abyei area before July 9, but the offer was heavily conditioned and no final agreement was announced. Mrs. Clinton, on a five-day, three-country visit focused on trade and economic assistance to Africa, became the first secretary of state to address a session of the African Union, the regional organization that was created in 2002 and represents 53 nations on the continent, lacking only Morocco.

“Too many people in Africa still live under long-standing rulers, men who care too much about the longevity of their reign and too little about the legacy that should be built for their countries’ future,” Mrs. Clinton said in a speech that echoed one in mid-January, just

before the president of Tunisia was ousted in the first salvo in what became a wave of regional revolts. Then, she warned Arab leaders that their governments risked “sinking into the sand” if they did not change.

“The status quo is broken,” she said Monday. “The old ways of governing are no longer acceptable. It is time for leaders to leave with accountability, treat their people with dignity, respect their rights and deliver economic opportunity. And if they will not, then it is time for them to go.”

Mrs. Clinton did not specify any countries or leaders, but the United States has long opposed some of the most repressive governments, from Zimbabwe to Sudan. Representatives of the union’s members — including Libya’s — attended her speech in the conference hall of its headquarters here in Ethiopia’s capital. She was greeted politely and even warmly at moments.

One of her most biting comments about leaders’ attitudes — “Some even claim to believe in democracy defined as one election, one time” — prompted laughter.

Dictionary citations by justices rise sharply

BY ADAM LIPTAK THE NEW YORK TIMES

WASHINGTON — In a decision last week in a patent case, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. puzzled out the meaning of a federal law by consulting the usual legal materials — and five dictionaries.

One of the words he looked up was “of.” He learned that it means pretty much what you think it means.

In May alone, the justices cited dictionaries in eight cases to determine what legislators had meant when they used words like “prevent,” “delay” and “report.” Over the years, justices have looked up both perfectly ordinary words (“now,” “also,” “any,” “if”) and ones you might think they would know better than the next guy (“attorney,” “common law”).

All of this is, lexicographers say, sort of strange.

“I think that it’s probably wrong, in almost all situations, to use a dictionary in the courtroom,” said Jesse Sheidlower, the editor at large of the Oxford English Dictionary. “Dictionary definitions are written with a lot of things in mind, but rigorously circumscribing the exact meanings and connotations of terms is not usually one of them.”

J. Gordon Christy, a professor at the Mississippi College School of Law, surveyed the scene in 2006, and he did not like what he saw. “We are treated,” Mr. Christy wrote in The Mississippi Law Journal, “to the truly absurd spectacle of august justices and judges arguing over which unreliable dictionary and which unreliable dictionary definition should be deemed authoritative.”

In the last two decades, the use of dictionaries at the Supreme Court has been booming.

A new study in The Marquette Law

Review found that the justices had used dictionaries to define 295 words or phrases in 225 opinions in the 10 years starting in October 2000. That is roughly in line with the previous decade but an explosion by historical standards. In the 1960s, for instance, the court relied on dictionaries to define 23 terms in 16 opinions.

Justices Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Benjamin N. Cardozo and Louis D. Brandeis managed to make it through distinguished careers on the Supreme Court without citing dictionaries.

Learned Hand, widely considered the greatest judge never to have served on the Supreme Court, cautioned against the mechanical examination of words in isolation.

“It is one of the surest indexes of a mature and developed jurisprudence not to make a fortress out of the dictionary,” Judge Hand wrote in a 1945 decision, “but to remember that statutes always have some purpose or object to accomplish, whose sympathetic and imaginative discovery is the surest guide to their meaning.”

On May 26, Justice Stephen G. Breyer made a similar point in criticizing Chief Justice Roberts for turning to a dictionary in a case about tough penalties for businesses that hire illegal workers. “Neither dictionary definitions nor the use of the word ‘license’ in an unrelated statute,” Justice Breyer wrote, “can demonstrate what scope Congress intended the word ‘licensing’ to have as it used that word in this federal statute.”

That same day in another case, Justice Breyer cited the online version of the Oxford English Dictionary to help determine what Congress had intended when it used the word “prevent” in a federal statute. (An article in Brigham Young University Law Review last

year speculated that Justice Breyer, who attended Oxford, may turn to the O.E.D. “out of nostalgia for his alma mater.”)

The authors of the Marquette study, Jeffrey L. Kirchmeier and Samuel A. Thumma, said the justices had never really said precisely what dictionary definitions were doing in legal opinions. They urged the justices to explain “when and how dictionaries should be used, how a specific dictionary should be chosen and how to use a dictionary for interpretation.”

The justices have cited more than 120 dictionaries, which is suggestive of cherry picking.

“It’s easy to stack the deck by finding a definition that does or does not highlight a nuance that you’re interested in,” said Mr. Sheidlower, the O.E.D. editor.

Justices who try to discern the original meaning of the Constitution sometimes consult older dictionaries, which makes sense given that usage may have shifted over time.

In a 1995 concurrence, for instance, Justice Clarence Thomas looked to dictionaries from 1773, 1789 and 1796 to determine what the framers of the Constitution meant by “commerce,” a question now in play in the challenges to the recent health care law.

(They meant, Justice Thomas found, “selling, buying and bartering, as well as transporting for these purposes.”)

The case for using dictionaries to determine the meaning of modern statutes is weaker, in part because the materials consulted by the people who compile definitions can skew the results. A 1988 survey of the lexicographic staffs of five publishers concluded that “the ‘polite press,’ with The New York Times at its pinnacle” is “the single most powerful influence in constituting the record of the English lexicon.”

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Four bodies found in Dexter home; police say father killed family, self DAILY SUN STAFF REPORT State police say a man shot and killed his estranged wife and two children Monday morning inside their Dexter home before killing himself, according to a press release from the Maine Department of Public Safety.

The victims have been identified by the state police as 38-year-old Amy Lake and her two children — 12-year-old Monica and 13-year-old son, Coty.

The assailant, 37-year-old Steven Lake, was charged last year with holding his wife and children hostage at gunpoint in the town of Wellington, where is most recently lived. Lake was free on bail, pending an upcoming trial and had been barred from any

contact with his family.

A Dexter police officer checked on the family Monday morning after Amy Lake failed to show up to work and a co-worker noticed her car in the driveway, according to state police.

Upon hearing gunfire from the house, the officer called for help. Negotiators from the state police tried in vain for over two hours to contact Lake by phone and PA system, and around 2 p.m. approached the house with an armored vehicle equipped with a battering ram.

Upon entering the house, state police discovered the four bodies in the living room. Some of the victims had been shot multiple times, according to the State Medical Examiner’s Office, which responded

to the scene.

Steven Lake’s uncle Mylon Lake told The Associated Press that his nephew was inside the house and involved in a child custody dispute with his estranged wife. Mylon Lake said Amy Lake had partial custody, but Steven had recently lost the right to see his children and was particularly incensed over missing Coty’s eighth-grade graduation.

Neighbor Phil Kreider said a couple of local officers knew of the contentious relationship between the estranged couple, and had been regularly checking on the woman, according to the Portland Press Herald.

Amy Lake taught at the Dexter Middle School, the same school her children attended.

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Official: ‘It’s just trying to collect what’s due’ “It’s nothing to be vicious FINES from page one about, it’s just trying to colbill or two, then it would drop lect what’s due,” he said. off the radar screen because Particulars of the prothey are not going to pay us gram are still being worked anyway.” out, but Sanborn said out“If we can get someone to of-state drivers would chase them down, hopefully we almost certainly receive a can collect the money we are warning before the matter due,” she continued. was turned over to collecThe program won't be used to tions — which can negacollect tickets issued to Maine tively affect a person's drivers, city officials said. credit score. Any agency John Peverada, the city’s hired by the city will likely parking manager, said yesterbe paid from a percentage day that his office has plenty of the revenue it brings in, of ways to collect parking she said fines from Maine residents, The city already conbut almost no options when it tracts with collections comes to out-of-staters. agencies to bring in money “We can boot in-state people, owed for ambulance and we can contact in-state people, EMS services, Sanborn but with out-of-state people said. In that case, she said we don’t have access to DMV the agency receives about records, so it makes sense to 3.5 percent of any revenues turn it over to someone who has it collects. that access,” he said, referring Jan Beitzer, executive to collections agencies. director of Portland DownPeverada added that many town District, doesn't municipalities operate similar expect the new program A car is immobilized in Portland with a parking boot would create any hard programs.

Each year, the city's park- in this file photo. City officials are currently in the feelings among tourists or ing enforcement officers issue process of hiring a collections agency that will track other visitors. roughly 145,000 parking tick- down unpaid tickets issued to vehicles registered “This is very common,” ets. In the current fiscal year, outside Maine — vehicles that can’t be booted or she said. “The fact of the often traced locally. It’s not clear when the program which ends June 30, 2012, the will take effect, but the city is expecting the collec- matter is, if you get a ticket, city plans to take in about $1.93 tions effort will yield at least $100,000 in new rev- unfortunately, you have to million from parking fines, enue by next July. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO) pay it.” including the $100,000 from City spokesperson Nicole the new program.

Clegg said she hoped the new parking ticket colStill, the city is owed a combined $3.5 million lections tactics wouldn’t upset any tourists. in unpaid parking tickets, and out-of-state drivShe said the city’s plan to install a new meter ers are responsible for about $600,000 of that. system across parts of the city this fall will make The city’s collection rate on out-of-state tickets is it easier for people to park legally by allowing about 30 percent, while the overall rate is about them to use a credit card instead of searching for 60 percent, Sanborn said. spare change.

Peverada said the city isn’t trying to punish The number and location of the new meters anyone with the program, which was conceived won’t be final until the city knows for sure how locally earlier this year as a way to boost complimany of the new electronic machines it can afford, ance.

Clegg said.

Feds propose regulations to protect Gulf of Maine sturgeon Newly proposed federal regulations aimed at protecting the Gulf of Maine’s sturgeon population were announced on Monday.

The protections, proposed by The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, would prevent any taking of sturgeon except for scientific research until it can be determined whether the fish should be listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, a decision expected to be made by the fall, according to the Associated Press.

The sturgeon, a slowly reproducing fish that was once abundant along the East Coast, were driven nearly to extinction in the 19th century by the caviar industry, which valued the fish for it’s salty eggs.

New Maine shipyard promises to bring jobs to Belfast waterfront A new Belfast shipyard hopes to revive the town’s working waterfront, according to the Associated Press.

While still under construction, the Front Street Shipyard has already demolished the derelict Stinson Seafood sardine processing plant.

The shipyard hopes to eventually open a comprehensive boat repair, retrofitting and shipbuilding operation, according to the Associated Press.

The Bangor Daily News is reporting that the shipyard would be capable of servicing a range of watercraft, from smaller recreational and fishing vessels to commercial boats and mega-yachts.

The new yard currently employs about a dozen people, but could employ between 100 and 150 within five years, the owner told the Bangor Daily News.

Pingree goes on Maddow show Congresswoman Chellie Pingree was scheduled to appear last night on the Rachel Maddow show on MSNBC to talk about legislation in Maine that repeals same-day voter registration.

As president of Common Cause, Pingree was active on issues involving same-day voter registration, Pingree’s office noted. Maine enacted sameday voter registration in 1973 with a Republican controlled legislature.

Last year 60,000 people registered to vote on election day in Maine, Pingree reported.

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Bayside Trail really needs trash cans To the Editor, I’m writing to express the opinion of one who actually uses the new Bayside Trail.

When I was a boy, some forty-odd years ago, I and my friends used to hang around the old rail line that formerly occupied the site of the Bayside Trail. Back then there was a lot of broken beer bottles and other junk along the tracks. It was an eyesore to say the least. Now we have a new, decent trail that I and many others use on a daily basis. I walk my dog there and used the trail to do my shopping each week.

I’ve read the stories about the contest to design the benches for this new trail. That’s a good thing but I believe there’s something that is needed more than a place to sit down. What’s really needed is trash cans.

In case you haven’t walked the trail lately, it’s starting to look like old times. There’s broken bottles, trash and other junk. Just like when I was a kid walking the old railroad tracks. The only thing missing are the tracks.

It’s true. People do pick up the dog waste and bag it, but then they leave the bag of poop on the side of the trail. They’ve got no receptacle to dispose of it into. So why not have a contest to design trash cans for the new trail? They could even come up with a combination trash can/bench design.

David Ferrar Portland ––––––––––––– COLUMN –––––––––––––

End the War on Drugs “If we cannot destroy the drug menace in America, then it will surely in time destroy us,” President Richard Nixon told Congress in a special message on June 17, 1971, which generally is credited as the day the “war on drugs” began.

Actually, Nixon didn’t use the term “war on drugs” in the address. He used it later. And while Nixon talked tough about going after drug traffickers, he emphasized that rehabilitation would be a priority as he dediDebra J. cated the lion’s share — $105 Saunders million of $155 million in new anti-drug funding — “solely for ––––– the treatment and rehabilitation Creators of drug-addicted individuals.”

Syndicate Some 40 years later, there are only losers in the drug war. Drug use is up; 118 million Americans have used illegal drugs, and the cost of prosecuting the drug war and offenders continues to mount. see SAUNDERS page 5

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How do you define Portland’s livability?

While waiting to be seated at one of my favorite local restaurants I decided to play a word game. “What is the word that makes Portland so special?” I asked myself. The secret to its success? At the top of “best of” lists across the nation and the world? And even closer to home, it is growing while every where else seems to be declining. In Maine, the census confirmed state with the oldest population, Portland still has a healthy balance. What is it that brings young people to Portland, and that young people bring to Portland?

The Opportunity here is more than just proximity to Boston, it is deliberate work to cultivate local Entrepreneurship. Yes, young people want jobs, but we want to be more than a nametag in a faceless conglomerate. We want more than to just work for someone, we want to work towards something. We need Mentors, we need to be able to look around and see positive role models of people who have done it, who took the risk, who started their own business, and found a community there Supporting them.

I saw a Portland Buy Local sticker on the window and the word “Independent” blazed in front of me. Maine has an Independent streak 210 miles wide, so what is it that the rest of Maine could learn from Portland?

Orion Breen ––––– Guest Columnist I finally got seated and looked down in awe at the diverse menu, the clash of cultures that in this scintillating melting pot come together to make something new and deliciously Invigorating. Yes, Portland’s Diversity is definitely one of the secret ingredients in its recipe of success. The Sharing of ideas, cultures, and ways of doing things that leads to Innovation.

But the word isn’t Innovation that sets Portland apart, it is nothing but pure Yankee Ingenuity that keeps the fires going through the cold economic winters that seem to never end throughout Maine.

Is it the Freedom of expression?

The art and music and Vibrancy?

The camaraderie of not following the flock but of brazen Individuality? People can be who they want here, and not just behind closed doors. Here you can publicly express your love. You can hold hands with your partner, you can sell your art in the streets, you can march topless as Adam and Eve, you can be yourself and be accepted in the community as long as you do the same for others.

I knew there had to be a word that ties all these words together in a happy little bundle with a bow on top. It just refused to show itself, buzzing around my periphery and alluding my clumsy attempts at capture like a taunting mosquito. I pride myself on my follow through, and pledged to myself I would sit right here and keep eating until I found an answer or bust a gut trying.

The restaurant slowly emptied and I resigned myself to my just desserts. I could feel the waitstaff growing impatient, politely burrowing a hole in the back of my head with laser beam eyes.

Then, in the middle of a bite of something sweet and saucy, they flipped around the “sorry, we’re closed” sign and my mouth dropped open. There it was, dancing on the tip of my tongue, just waiting to be spoken. Of course, I finished chewing, paid my bill with generous tip, and walked out into the calm night air before I did.

“Openness,” I said with wonder.

“Openness.” It would almost sound lurid if it weren’t so wonderful.

The city is Open, not crowded and claustrophobic, Inviting. The city invites Diversity, and all those other wonderful words which define Portland are expressions of our Openness. The Excitement to try new things, to take risks, to be daring, to innovate. To not be see BREEN page 5

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The end of a surprisingly good political career Exit Newt Gingrich. Well, not quite yet, officially. On his Facebook page, Gingrich says he will endure “the rigors of campaigning for public office” and “will carry the message of American renewal to every part of this great land, whatever it takes.”

Without, however, the assistance of his 16 top campaign aides, some of whom had been with him for years, who resigned en masse last Thursday.

They wanted him to spend more time on personal campaigning. He and his wife, Callista, figured they could do a lot of their campaigning and fundraising over the Internet.

This is not the first time that political allies have turned on Gingrich.

Most of his fellow House Republican leaders tried to mount a coup to overthrow him in July 1997, in his third year as speaker of the House; he survived, but not for long. Thus, he has twice shown that he can inspire ties of great loyalty — and can do things that make those ties snap and recoil against him.

Gingrich may keep campaigning — at the Republican Jewish Coalition on Sunday and at a debate in New Hampshire on Monday night — but his campaign is effectively over, just a month after he declared he was running.

In 30 days, he careened from one disaster to another, denouncing House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan as “right-wing social engineering” on the Sunday after announcing, later taking a twoweek vacation on a cruise in Greece and Turkey.

There is plenty being written about Gingrich’s flaws. His personal life has not been entirely admirable, to say the least. He is prone to hyperbole, to making outrageous statements he cannot defend, to shifting positions without informing allies. He spreads

Michael Barone ––––– Creators Syndicate himself too thin, writing counterfactual histories of the Civil War and World War II, making documentaries on subjects such as Pope John Paul II’s 1979 visit to Poland, setting up one organization after another.

But in the long run, the most interesting things about Newt Gingrich are not his flaws, but his strengths.

What enabled this Army brat with no real hometown to become a major political figure who did much to shape American public policy?

It certainly was not connections to any particular political group.

Gingrich graduated from good universities, but he is essentially an autodidact, a self-educated loner. He has long been credited with having new ideas, but looking back on his nearly 40-year political career — he first ran for Congress in Georgia in 1974 — I think his keenest insights were not about public policy, but about political possibilities.

He foresaw that Republicans could win congressional races in the smalltown South and worked hard to prove it, losing first in the Watergate year and then in 1976, when Jimmy Carter swept Georgia, before he beat a conservative Democrat in 1978.

I remember that starting in 1984, he was predicting that Republicans could win a majority in the House. He was wrong then, but he was right in 1994 and he was right about the reasons all along. He saw that Republicans would win most Southern seats and that tal-

ented young Democrats elected in the Vietnam/Watergate years would in time retire or be defeated.

He coached politically clueless Republican candidates with the high tech of the day — hours of Newt on audiotape — and bucked the Bush 41 White House and House Republican leader in opposing a tax increase in 1990.

As speaker, Gingrich had more policy successes than his current detractors recall. He held federal spending essentially static for a year, setting the budget on a path to surpluses; passed a landmark welfare reform act; and set in motion a Medicare reform commission that recommended premium support, the main feature of Ryan’s proposal.

Through all this, Gingrich always was searching for ideas that com-

manded 70 percent support. He understood that dovish Democrats’ disdain for American exceptionalism was a grave political liability and sought to exploit it. But after his first moments in the spotlight as speaker, he turned off voters. I think he reminded them of the high-school nerd/egghead whom all the other kids disliked.

Gingrich turns 68 next week; this was obviously the last year he could run for president. His chances were never great and now seem nonexistent. But we shouldn’t forget what this man, with his unusual gifts and despite glaring flaws, managed to accomplish against great odds.

(Michael Barone is senior political analyst for The Washington Examiner, www.washingtonexaminer.com.)

On the state level, the drug war has begun to wind down SAUNDERS from page 4

This column is not to pay homage to drug use.

Drug abuse was responsible for the death of 38,371 Americans in 2007, according to White House statistics. In 2009, 10.5 million Americans reported they had driven under the influence of illicit drugs. That’s scary.

Prohibition didn’t work for alcohol, and it doesn’t work for drugs. As Daniel Okrent wrote in his book “Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition,” “In almost every respect imaginable, Prohibition was a failure. It encouraged criminality and institutionalized hypocrisy.

It deprived the government of revenue, stripped the gears of the political system, and proposed profound limitations on individual rights.”

I’ll go down the list.

Encouraged criminality: The Department of

Justice reported that in 2009, “midlevel and retail drug distribution in the United States was dominated by more than 900,000 criminally active gang members” representing more than 20,000 U.S. gangs.

Institutional hypocrisy: President Obama has admitted to using illegal drugs, President George W. Bush coyly would not say and President Bill Clinton said he didn’t inhale. A drug conviction could have curtailed their careers, yet all three presidents were drug warriors in the White House.

Deprived revenue: Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron estimated in 2008 that legalizing drugs could save federal, state and local governments $44 billion per year, while taxing drugs could yield an added $33 billion.

Limiting individual rights: Allow me to quote Neill Franklin, a former Baltimore narcotics cops

and executive director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. “President Obama needs to think about where he would be right now had he been caught with drugs as a young black man. It’s probably not in the Oval Office, so why does he insist on ramping up a drug war that needlessly churns other young black men through the criminal justice system?”

LEAP will release a report this week that addresses Franklin’s concerns.

On the state level, the drug war has begun to wind down. In 2000, Californians passed Proposition 36, which mandates probation and treatment for those charged with drug possession. Last year, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a law that made possession of small amounts of marijuana an infraction; 13 other states have similar laws.

(Email Debra J. Saunders at dsaunders@sfchronicle.com.)

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afraid of the different or new, of change or the future, but to be open to it, and thus to help create it and be in front of it instead of being behind struggling to catch up. Open not just to crazy Massachusetts drivers, but to Sudanese refugees. All of us are Portlanders, all of us who dare to live wide open and embrace all we have to offer each other.

I stood in front of my apartment building in anticipation of the sweet dreams that awaited me and opened myself to whatever wisdom the universe offered me. If we want to have the quality of life we all desire, we can’t close the door to anyone. A home should be an open circle, inviting all to join and share. Like a family, we bicker and disagree but still appreciate each other as essential pieces of the puzzle in which the whole community wouldn’t be

complete without. I saw a streak of light, a shooting star to wish upon, and wondered if the other stars noticed it was gone before slipping off to sleep.

(Orion Breen is a member of Hour Exchange Portland, a community service exchange of neighbors helping neighbors where everyone and their time is valued equally. Find out more at www.HourExchangePortland.org.)

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Dana Warp Mill sells at auction Westbrook’s historic Dana Warp Mill was sold at auction for $2.5 million on Monday morning to the sole bidder who turned out for the sale.

Sasa Cook, who took over the loan on the building last month told the Press Herald that he hopes to close the sale on the 250,000-square-foot building this week.

After the former owner of the mill defaulted on his mortgage back in September, Bank of America placed the building into receivership. Local commercial real estate interest CB Richard Ellis/Boulos Property Management then took over management of the mill, and will continue to do so, according to the Press Herald.

Since Cook already purchased the loan on the building from Bank of America, Monday’s sale essentially means Cook will pay himself $2.5 million.

Because Cook already purchased the loan from Bank of America, he will essentially pay himself the $2.5 million sale price.

The mill was bought in 1997 by the former owner and renovated into a multi-use office space, with tenants including a gym, software company and artist’s studio space. The five-story brick structure located along the Presumpscot River is a former spinning mill.

Small plane crashes in Scarborough Two men were injured after a small, home-built plane crashed in Scarborough on Friday night.

The Federal Aviation Administration is still investigating what caused the small, single-engine plane

to crash into a field off Ross Road, thought the pilot told his wife he believes a gust a wind may have caused the plane to dive, according to The Forecaster.

Jeff Greenleaf, bought the aircraft last winter and enlisted his friend, pilot Perry Fielding, to fly the experimental, build-at-home class of small aircraft made by Kitfox.

Taking off from a private airstrip owned by Fred Bayley of Bayley’s Camping Resort, Scarborough Fire Chief Micheal Thurlow said made it 100 feet off the ground before crashing shortly before 6 p.m. on Friday, according to The Forecaster.

Following the crash, both men were transported to Maine Medical Center where they were treated for serious injuries. Thurlow said Greenleaf was released Friday night, and Fielding’s wife said he was released on Saturday night, The Forecaster reported.

Feilding’s wife said in an interview with the Forecaster that her husband has been a pilot for four decades and has always practiced safety. Greenleaf enlisted Feilding to pilot the craft because the pilot owns a similar aircraft, according to Feilding’s wife.

in Missouri relative to animal recovery, care and hopeful reunification through our colleagues at the ASPCA,” said Steve Jacobsen, executive director of the Animal Welfare Society.

“Volunteers with animal care as their profession have been working tirelessly to assist since the tornado. We feel fortunate and humbled to have been formally asked to send some of our staff as the efforts continue. It speaks volumes to the work that they do for our local animals each day,” he said.

Jacobsen said he spent a number of days in Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina and is no stranger to working through animal disasters. “Animal welfare is always an emotional and exhausting field to work in, no matter the location,” said Jacobsen. “But, working in a disaster situation will give Megan and Ben an experience that they will not soon forget.”

“When I heard that there might be an opportunity to help, I immediately wanted to go,” said Arsenault.

“Steve has told me that this will be a life-changing experience, and I’m nervous, anxious and excited.”

The nonprofit Animal Welfare Society cares for more than 3,600 companion animals each year.

AWS assists in hurricane recovery

Anti-bullying bill advances

The Animal Welfare Society will send two staff members to Joplin, Missouri this week to assist in their disaster recovery efforts following last month’s tornado, according to a press release.

Megan Arsenault of Sanford, Maine and Ben Prevatt of Kennebunk, Maine, will fly out of the Portland Jetport early Wednesday morning for a nine-day assignment.

“We have been closely following the developments

A bill to protect students in Maine schools from bullying moved closer to becoming law last week with votes for approval in both the House and Senate, according to a press release from the Maine Legislature.

Sponsored by State Rep. Terry Morrison, D-South Portland, the bill aims to provide better definitions for bullying and to provide schools a framework to deal with the issue.

‘Voters don’t seem to mind vetoing laws of the legislature over the last few years’ "Yes, let's do it, along with the voter ID bill," wrote one respondent, referring to legislation requiring photograph identification for voting. One controversial voter ID bill, LD 199, was beaten back by Senate Democrats Monday. Several Senate Republicans crossed the aisle to join Democrats in a vote of 15-19 “ought not to pass.”

Barring a veto from the governor, however, the end to same-day voter registration will pass into law.

Hence the people’s veto effort.

"I'd collect signatures," wrote a follower of the new Facebook page on same-day voter registration.

Rep. Ben Chipman, I-Portland, an outspoken critic of the new same-day voter registration law, noted that the bill passed by narrow margins.

"It was passed by 74-70 in the House after a long debate; and the Senate voted 18-17 to pass the bill," Chipman said. "By one vote, we've taken away something that's been allowed for 39 years. I can't believe it came down to one vote like that."

In about a week since its creation, the Facebook page "to re-establish Same Day Voter Registration in Maine" garnered 27 people who like the page and a who's who of progressive groups "liking" it, including the NAACP, the Maine Civil Liberties Union, the

Natural Resources Council of Maine and the Maine League of Young Voters.

The Maine Green Independent Party provided a link from its Facebook page to the "Same Day Voter Registration in Maine” page, writing, "The Maine Green Independent Party strongly disagrees with the legislature's decision to disenfranchise Mainers by limiting voter registration. 'Like' this page to oppose hurting Maine's democracy!"

LD 1376, a bill eliminating “registration of new voters on election day and during the two business days before election day,” was sponsored by House Speaker Robert Nutting, R-Oakland. The bill passed on largely party-line votes.

Once signed by Republican Gov. Paul LePage, the law will take effect 90 days from the time of adjournment, which means it will take effect in time for the Portland mayoral election on Nov. 8.

A people's veto would nullify the new law, however.

Rep. Chipman speculated that a people's veto movement could gain momentum, based on recent history.

"The voters don't seem to mind vetoing laws of the legislature over the last few years," he said.

In 2008, a law that put a tax on malt liquor, wine and soft drinks to fund the state's Dirigo Health Program was overturned by people's veto, 462,818-

253,026; and, in one of the highest-profile people's vetos in state history, in 2009, a same-sex marriage law was overturned by a people's veto, 300,848267,828, according to the Maine State Law and Legislative Reference Library.

"I wouldn't be surprised to see a few people's veto campaigns this summer," Chipman said.

To be successful, a people's veto this year needs 57,277 valid signatures, based on 10 percent of the number of people who voted for governor in the last election, explains the Maine Secretary of State's office.

Any Maine registered voter may circulate a people's veto referendum, but the application for the petition must be filed with the Secretary of State within 10 business days after adjournment of the legislative session during which the bill in question was passed, and the filing deadline for a people's veto referendum petition is by 5 p.m. on the 90th day after adjournment of the legislative session during which the bill in question was passed, according to the Maine Secretary of State's office.

Despite the limited time for signature-gathering, Chipman said a people's veto of the repeal of sameday voter registration could be successful.

"Who's going to want to run a campaign to say they support what happened up here and we're taking away a person's right to vote on election day?" he said.

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Tuesday, June 14 WCLZ Presents Chris Isaak 7:30 p.m. From the beginning, Chris Isaak has earned his good luck the hard way — by consistently delivering excellent work, both onstage and in the studio on a series of accomplished albums from Silvertone (1985), Chris Isaak (1986), Heart Shaped World (1989), San Francisco Day (1993), Forever Blue (1995), the largely acoustic Baja Sessions (1996), Speak of the Devil (1998), Always Got Tonight (2002), the seasonal-themed Christmas, the Best of Chris Isaak compilation (2006) and 2009’s Mr. Lucky. State Theatre. $45 and $35/ reserved seating. www.statetheatreportland.com

Wednesday, June 15 Alela Diane with The Parson Red Heads, Emily Dix Thomas at Space 8 p.m. The Portland, Oregon-based musician Alela Diane, though traveled the world over, is most at peace within audible range of a crackling fire and her cat’s paws padding across the wood floors of her creaky Victorian residence.

From fashioning hand-sewn CD jackets for her debut The Pirate’s Gospel, to garnering a huge European following and a new album on Rough Trade entitled “Alela Diane & Wild Divine”, she has now fully taken the reigns of her strong, disarming voice backed by a full band. Comparisons often evoke childhood friend Joanna Newsom or Jolie Holland, but Alela is ultimately a traditionalist forging beautifully simple songs with uncluttered arrangements better suited to her Sandy Denny-esque vocal stylings over a decidedly folk, unequivocally American sound. West coast dreamers The Parson Red Heads and local cello-playing songstress Emily Dix Thomas open the night. $10, 18 plus.

Thursday, June 16 WCLZ Presents: The Decemberists 7:30 p.m. The Decemberists are a Portland-Ore.-based indie-rock band with a baroque bent. What sets the fivepiece apart from the million other jangly rock groups is their combination of breezy melodies, literate lyrics and nontraditional instrumentation. The band formed in 2000 and is comprised of singer Colin Meloy, drummer Ezra Holbrook, keyboardist/accordionist Jenny Conlee and guitarist Chris Funk. In 2003, hometown label Kill Rock Stars re-released their debut album, Castaways and Cutouts, a collection of wistful indie-pop songs that showcase Meloy’s creative-writing talents. Successive albums Her Majesty and Picaresque saw the band become more lush and baroque-sounding. In 2006, the band released its majorlabel debut, “The Crane Wife,” on Capitol Records. In 2011, the sixth Decemberists album, “The King is Dead,” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard charts. State Theatre. $39.50/ general admission.

Friday, June 17 Zemya and Loop 2.4.3.

8 p.m. Mayo Street Arts. Zemya is 11 women singing a blend beautiful and edgy harmonies without accompaniment. They share folk and traditional songs from the Balkans, United Kingdom, Africa, the Americas and more… and they have fun doing it! Zemya means “earth” in Bulgarian, and these songs grow from the deep soul of the world’s folk music heritage. Loop 2.4.3 is a composer/performer duo that has drawn comparisons to Steve Reich, Battles, Harry Partch, Moondog, Konono No.1, Brian Eno, and Belle Orchestre — an assortment that alludes to their hard to classify, yet visceral aesthetic. http://mayostreetarts.org/calendar/

Rodney Atkins on the pier 9 p.m. Rising to prominence with his 2006 album “If You’re Going Through Hell,” Rodney Atkins has quickly become one of Country’s brightest new stars, scoring 5 No. 1 hit singles (notably “If You’re Going Through Hell” and “Watching You”) on the Billboard Hot Country songs chart, a No. 3 album on the Billboard 200, and an Academy of Country Music award for Top New Male Vocalist, among numerous other vocal and song of the year award nominations. The Don Campbell Band opens, fronted by Portland-based Don Campbell. Presented by Maine State Pier Concert Series.

General Admission seating. All tickets $37 including $3 service fee. Rain or Shine. All tickets will be mailed.

Saturday, June 18 The Duke Robillard Band 8 p.m. One Longfellow Square presents. “Guitarist.

Bandleader. Songwriter. Singer. Producer. Session musi-

Having recently signed with Jagjaguwar, Dinosaur Jr. plans to release a new album, “Farm,” on June 23. First, the band will be in Portland on Monday, June 20. (COURTESY PHOTO) cian. And a one-man cheering section for the blues, in all its forms and permutations. And every one of those names has shared recording studio space or stage time with a man who is a legend in the blues community. The Blues Music Awards (formerly W.C. Handy Awards) have named Duke Robillard ‘Best Blues Guitarist’ four years out of five (2000, 2001, 2003, 2004) making him the second most honored guitarist for that award! He was also nominated in that category in 2005, 2007 and 2008. In 2007 Duke received a Grammy nomination for his Guitar Groove-a-rama CD and was also honored with the prestigious Rhode Island Pell Award for ‘excellence in the arts’ along with actress Olympia Dukakis, actor Bob Colonna, and R.I. Choreographer/ Festival Ballet director Mihailo ‘Misha’ Djuric.”

BRZOWSKI abum release with Prayers for Atheists, Doll Fight!, H.W. and Ill By Instinct 9 p.m. After five years of touring throughout five countries, over 600 performances, two mixtapes, two ep’s, one 7” single, countless featured appearances, and performing live with a venerable who’s-who of the independent (progressive) hiphop, Portland’s own BRZOWSKI returns with his sophomore solo release. “A Fitful Sleep” finds our narrator moving away from the thick veil of funereal affectations of his debut, and now speaks from a soapbox steeped in the culture of independent artistry and on top of a widely broadened palette of production sounds, even if the punk/ metal/gothic/outlaw aesthetics remain on the skin. This is your first chance to grab the album and see the songs live (Backed by Moshe and Emoh Betta). Described by CMJ as “[the sound of] Public Enemy bum rushing a basement hardcore matinee,”Prayers For Atheists return to SPACE from their homebase in Providence. Doll Fight! joins the fray from Burlington with Riot Grrrl roots and power-packed songs.

Emcees H.W. and Ill By Instinct each offer a short set to get the night humming. $8, 18 plus. www.space538.org

Sunday, June 19 Michael Franti & Spearhead at Concerts On The Waterfront 6 p.m. State Theatre Presents at Concerts On The Waterfront At Ocean Gateway: Michael Franti & Spearhead, Blue King Brown. Michael Franti is a very big man who has always dared to say very big things through his joyous and passionate music during an unusually diverse and highly impressive career. Yet for all the wide-ranging, yet consistent excellence of his body of work, what’s most impressive about Michael Franti as a recording artist and live performer is his ability to inspire. Ultimately, the heartfelt music that Franti makes and his dedication to greater understanding on a global level, are not two aspects of his life, but very much one and the same. Blue King Brown, Australia’s premier Urban roots crew, are Comin’ to conquer! Concerts on the Waterfront at Ocean Gateway. $35 advance/$40 day of show. http://www.statetheatreportland.com/event/39649/

Monday, June 20 Dinosaur Jr. at Port City 7 p.m. Port City Music Hall. Having recently signed with Jagjaguwar, Dinosaur Jr plans to release a new album, “Farm,” on June 23. The band will be setting out in April to road test new material in cozier settings than you might expect. For the fortunate fans who score tickets to these select shows, they will also receive a limited edition, touronly 7” or a digital download code with the purchase of a ticket. Advance: $25; door: $30. VIP: $40. Plus Henry Rollins interviews Dinosaur Jr. live on stage! 18 plus.

Tuesday, June 21 Alina Simone Reading and Music 7 p.m. Alina Simone, at SPACE Gallery, reading from her new book of essays, “You Must Go And Win,” and performing songs from her new album, “Make Your Own Danger.”

“Alina Simone — a critically acclaimed singer who was born in Kharkov, Ukraine, and now lives in Brooklyn — returns to SPACE, where she previously played songs from her last record, a tribute to Russian post-punk cult icon Yanka Dyagileva. Her music has been everywhere from BBC’s The World, NPR, Spin, and Billboard to The New Yorker and The Wall Street Journal. This month she celebrates the release of her first collection of essays, You Must Go And Win, described by best-selling author Neil Gaiman as ‘music, religion, Russia and family conjured and dissected with warm humor and sharp eyes’ as well as a new full-length record, ‘Make Your Own Danger.’” Longfellow Books will be on hand to sell copies of the book. www.space538.org

Anni Clark & Rachel Griffin: Sweet Sounds of Summer 7:30 p.m. One Longfellow Square presents. “Anni Clark was recently nominated for “Female Vocalist of the Year” in the Texas Music Awards, based on her newest CD Anni Clark LIVE. Recorded at the rustic and intimate Deertrees Theatre in Harrison ME one hot summer’s eve, the disc showcases 15 of Anni’s most requested songs. With over two decades of full time touring and seven successful recordings under her belt, this Maine native’s passion for communication through music continues to build a widespread and loyal audience. Anni supports her strong melodic vocals with both six and twelve string guitars to create infectious performances that blend ‘folk, pop, & blues with a dash of Maine hue-mah.’ Rachel Griffin has composed, recorded, and released 43 songs in her brief two-year career as a singer/songwriter. There is no doubt that she is exceptionally prolific, and her vocal abilities continue to progress to the point where, on pure vocal talent (range, delivery, projection) she’s likely among the top five local female singers, with people like Carol Noonan and Sara Cox.” http://www. onelongfellowsquare.com

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Sunday’s 38th annual Old Port Festival dodged a steady rain that soaked the area on Saturday but still forced attendees to break out the sweatshirts and rain jackets. “With the drizzle, we were down (compared to previous years), so somewhere between 20,000 and 25,000 came through,” said Jan Beitzer, executive director of the Portland Downtown District. “But it was better than the pouring rain like it was Saturday afternoon.” CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Rob Steele deejays the WJBQ-Q97.9 Portland stage at Middle and Temple streets. TOP RIGHT: Pop punk band the Downtown Fiction from Fairfax, Va., rolls out some hits for the crowd. The band’s first studio album, “Let’s Be Animals” was released on April 25. ABOVE: Summit Adventure Systems’ trapeze swing on Newbury Street helps pump up the adrenaline. BELOW: A shopper visits the booth of South Portland’s Seamack Design jewelry. Specializing in “healing creations in silver,” Seamack Designs will appear at the Yarmouth Clam Festival on July 15-17.

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What’s often an elbow-to-elbow affair offered a little more room to move as Sunday’s Old Port Festival forged ahead under gray skies. Six stages of music carried on, albeit with some of the music moving to indoor venues. RIGHT: A crowd enjoys the music at the Q97.9 stage. Coast 93.1, WPOR Country 101.9, 98.9 WCLZ, Bull Feeney’s and Maine Academy of Modern Music also were on the line-up for live music. A Portland Downtown District event, the festival offered a variety of food booths (BELOW) and attracted even the four-legged variety of visitor, including this Great Pyrenees named “Belle” (BOTTOM RIGHT).

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A little bit of politicking also went on at the Old Port Festival. ABOVE: Mobilizing support for Portland mayoral candidate Jed Rathband, some of the first feet on the ground included these two backers with customized shirts. The election for Portland mayor is Nov. 8.

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By Holiday Mathis SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Everyone gets angry from time to time. It’s how you handle the emotion that matters. You will guide your aggressive impulses in extremely productive ways.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

You have a strong social sense now. You know when it’s important to blend with the group and also when it’s better to stand out in the crowd. You’ll advance your interests as you apply this social savvy.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

You are so focused on your task that you do not waste any time worrying or even noticing whether people like you.

Well, they do. And the smarter they are the more they appreciate you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18).

Include as many people as possible.

Your collaborative efforts will be the springboard that takes you to new places -- places you would not reach otherwise.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You probably don’t realize how much your loved ones need your approval and support, and they don’t realize it, either.

But events today will prove that your loving gaze is a healing balm.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (June 14). You deeply appreciate the small joys that loved ones bring to your life, and you will therefore be favored with a gigantic stroke of luck -- a birthday present from the universe. August brings a remarkable and unexpected turn of events.

Your personal life sparkles with the addition of new friends. You share a special connection with Capricorn and Virgo people. Your lucky numbers are: 40, 1, 13, 37 and 12.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). You will succeed in your quest if it is a very simple one. Things have a way of getting overly complicated unless you are vigilant in your efforts to stay focused.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You don’t always have to be the center of attention, which is why friends and family so thoroughly enjoy your presence. You have the perfect balance of give and take.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). An effort to save money could lead to the opposite occurrence. There is no point to being wise with your pennies if it causes you to be foolish with your dollars later on. Think of the big picture.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). If you want to get to know someone, the onus is on you to make the first move. Don’t think too much about your approach.

Work up the courage, and break the ice -- everything will flow naturally from there.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You don’t like to talk about your personal boundaries because you are generous. But you do have limits, and if you don’t let others know what they are, someone is likely to take advantage.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You will be helpful to someone who is going through difficult times. This person would rather be silent than talk about his or her feelings. Your presence is comforting because you understand.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You remember the process of achieving maturity and are therefore compassionate with someone who is coming of age. You also recognize that each person has to learn in his or her own way.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Tuesday, June 14, the 165th day of 2011. There are 200 days left in the year. This is Flag Day. Today’s Highlight in History: On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress in Philadelphia adopted the Stars and Stripes as the national flag.

On this date: In 1775, the Continental Army, forerunner of the United States Army, was created.

In 1801, former American Revolutionary War General and notorious turncoat Benedict Arnold died in London.

In 1811, Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” was born in Litchfield, Conn.

In 1911, the British ocean liner RMS Olympic set out on its maiden voyage for New York, arriving one week later.

In 1940, German troops entered Paris during World War II; the same day, the Nazis began transporting prisoners to the Auschwitz (OWSH’-vitz) concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.

In 1943, the Supreme Court, in West Virginia State Board of Education vs. Barnette, ruled that children in public schools could not be forced to salute the flag of the United States.

In 1954, the words “under God” were added to the Pledge of Allegiance.

In 1967, the space probe Mariner 5 was launched from Cape Kennedy on a flight that took it past Venus.

In 1985, the 17-day hijack ordeal of TWA Flight 847 began as a pair of Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists seized the jetliner shortly after takeoff from Athens, Greece.

In 1986, death claimed Broadway librettist Alan Jay Lerner in New York at age 67; and “Wild Kingdom” host Marlin Perkins in suburban St. Louis at age 81.

One year ago: During his latest visit to the Gulf Coast, President Barack Obama promised that “things are going to return to normal” and that the region’s fouled waters would be in even better shape than before the catastrophic BP oil spill.

Today’s Birthdays: Actress Marla Gibbs is 80. House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., is 72. Writer Peter Mayle is 72. Actor Jack Bannon is 71. Country-rock musician Spooner Oldham is 68. Rock singer Rod Argent is 66. Real estate mogul and TV personality Donald Trump is 65. Singer Janet Lennon (The Lennon Sisters) is 65. Rock musician Barry Melton is 64. Rock musician Alan White (Yes) is 62. Actor Eddie Mekka is 59. Actor Will Patton is 57. Olympic goldmedal speed skater Eric Heiden (HY’-dun) is 53. Singer Boy George is 50. Rock musician Chris DeGarmo is 48. Actress Traylor Howard is 45. Actress Yasmine Bleeth is 43.

Actor Faizon Love is 43. Tennis player Steffi Graf is 42. Screenwriter Diablo Cody (Film: “Juno”) is 33. Actor-singer Kevin McHale (TV: “Glee”) is 23. Actress Lucy Hale is 22.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX Dear Annie: I’ve been married for 20 years, but I have a situation at home and don’t know what to do anymore.

My wife gets angry over little things on a daily basis. She is constantly upset about things people do or don’t do. If a child eats a cookie, she will throw a fit and then get mad at everyone else in the household. She will sulk and give everyone the silent treatment, and if you attempt to talk things over, she will walk away or leave the house.

Her anger used to appear every few days, but now it’s multiple times morning and night. She is seeing a therapist, but she tells him it’s everyone else’s fault -- her parents didn’t bring her up right, her friends aren’t supportive enough, her kids don’t behave, etc., etc.

We saw a marriage counselor, but she got angry with him for asking too many questions. Then she got mad at me for seeing the counselor on my own. I’ve often thought of leaving, but my parents divorced, and I can’t do that to my kids.

My wife and I are both in our early 50s, but her temper tantrums affect everything in our marriage, including intimacy.

I’ve lost interest. What can I do? -- Tired of Living with Silent Bob Dear Tired: Until your wife recognizes that she has a problem, she cannot work on making it better. Many women struggle with hormonal imbalances during menopause, making it harder to control existing emotional issues. This could be why your wife’s anger has gotten worse. Go back to your counselor and ask for help communicating with her. She has to understand that her marriage is at stake.

Dear Annie: I am 13 years old and have two best friends.

I’ve been friends with “Emma” forever, and I just started getting close to “Maria.”

The problem is, Emma has been giving me the cold shoulder

because I’ve been spending a lot of time with Maria. When I brought it up with her, she admitted it. Even though I’ve been going over to Emma’s house a lot more, the situation hasn’t gotten any better. When I’m around both of them, I try to give them equal attention, but Emma still brushes me off. There are times when she is nice like before, but not always. What do I do? -- Friend Problems Dear Friend: Emma is too jealous of Maria to include her in the friendship she has with you. This is not an uncommon response when someone new disrupts an existing relationship.

Emma wants you to stop being chummy with Maria, but we urge you not to cave in to that pressure, or it will limit all your future friendships. Spending more individual time with Emma is a good idea, but she is the one who must deal with her jealousy. We hope she can learn to share.

Dear Annie: I’m a 7th-grade teacher and often find items in your column to discuss with my students.

“Heartbroken in Texas” said her husband’s co-workers were sending photos of semi-clothed women to his business cellphone. In addition to your reply, I would like to say that this may also constitute sexual harassment and is covered under federal law. -- Allison Dear Allison: Sexual harassment can include creating a hostile or offensive work environment. However, most such cases need to be gender-based, meaning female co-workers would have to be aware of these photos. But these laws are constantly evolving, and some companies have their own policies in place, as well.

Dear Readers: Today is Flag Day and the 32nd Annual Pause for the Pledge of Allegiance at 7 p.m. (Eastern time).

For more information, log on to americanflagfoundation.org.

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, 5777 W. Century Blvd., Ste. 700, Los Angeles, CA 90045.

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Police: Abused kitten sheltered

BY MARGE NIBLOCK SPECIAL TO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

A kitten has been placed in a shelter in the wake of an animal-cruelty arrest in Portland, police reported.

On June 8 a neighbor called police regarding a disturbance at 259 Woodford St. It was a little after 7 p.m. when officers arrived and tried to defuse the situation.

Kara A. Evans, 23, of Portland continued to yell loudly at others in the apartment and at the police, the police report stated. She was warned that she was causing a disturbance and would be arrested if it continued, police said.

As officers were getting ready to leave, Evans directed profanity at them, and then pushed Officer Jessica R. Brown, saying “I’m leaving!” according to the police report.

There was a small kitten near the front door of the apartment, and as Evans went by while trying to leave, she kicked the kitten, “which caused it to launch several feet,” according to the police report of the incident. At this point Evans was placed under arrest.

Police charged Evans with assault, cruelty to animals and disorderly conduct.

When Officer Brown left the jail after dropping Evans off, she went back to Woodford Street, took the kitten, and brought it to the Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland, located in Westbrook.

A call to Patsy Murphy, executive director at the ARL, said the long-haired buff male kitten is approximately 10 to 12 weeks old. “We call him Buttons, because he’s as cute as a button,” Murphy said.

Murphy explained that the animal will remain in the shelter's custody until the disposition of the police matter, since it’s an active cruelty case.

Southern Maine Pride events start this week prior to parade, festival DAILY SUN STAFF REPORT Southern Maine Pride hits its stride next weekend with a parade and festival at Deering Oaks, but other events are planned throughout the week, organizers announced. These include: • June 11-20 — “Out in the Silence” Movie Tour — A film by Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson that has won national and international acclaim will be featured in a tour of Mid-Coast Maine. “The tour is being coordinated by Out! As I Want to Be, the local nonprofit serving LGBT and questioning youth and their allies aged 14-22 in Mid-Coast Maine, as well as local residents and groups in each host community.” FMI: www.Outinthesilence.com • June 11-18 — Bike for Equality — Bicyclists will ride from Fort Kent to Portland from June 11-18, ending with the Southern Maine Pride Parade.

Riders need to collect a minimum of $500 in taxdeductible donations, all of which goes to EQME Foundation.

• June 15 — LGBT Collection Annual Open House — From 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Glickman Family Library, sixth floor, University of Southern Maine Portland campus.

• June 15 — Portland Phoenix’s “Out in Maine” Magazine Launch Party — From 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at STYXX at 3 Spring St. in Portland. “Join the Phoenix and friends as they celebrate the launch of their new magazine for Maine’s GLBT communities! Free admission. Ages 21 plus only.”

• June 17 — LIFE VIP Reception — From 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Oxygen Lounge, 237 Main St, Ogunquit.

• June 17 — LIFE Ogunquit (with DJ Randy Bettis) — 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. at Maine Street Bar, 195 Main St., Ogunquit.

For more about the week, visit www. mainelifeevents.org.

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–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– EVENTS CALENDAR––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– and DVDs. The book sale will offer tens of thousands of books and related items and will take place in the Catherine McAuley High School Gymnasium located at 631 Stevens Ave. in Portland from June 16 through June 19. A special preview for members of the Friends of Portland Public Library will be held on Thursday, June 16 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. New members are always welcome. The $10 membership fee can be paid at the door or online at www.friendsofppl.org. The public hours for the book sale are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday, June 17 and Saturday, June 18, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday, June 19. More information about the Friends of Portland Public Library can be found at its website: www.friendsofppl.org.

Tuesday, June 14 Flag Day celebration at Portland Observatory 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Portland Observatory Museum, 138 Congress St. “Flag Day commemorates the date the Continental Congress first approved a design for a national flag, June 14, 1777. Each year we celebrate with a free community day that includes tours of the Portland Observatory and walking tours of the Munjoy Hill area, flag making and art activities for children and families, and a flag raising ceremony to call attention to the original purpose of the tower as a maritime signal station. Come celebrate with us! All visitors will enjoy free self-guided tours of the Portland Observatory Museum (1807). The Observatory opens at 10 a.m. Flag raising ceremony at 10 a.m., and tours thereafter until closing at 5 p.m. Docents will be available to answer questions. Don Whitney and Michael Daicy, authors of Portland’s Greatest Conflagration will make a special presentation at 11 a.m. David Peloquin will once again perform historical sea chanty music between noon to 5 p.m.

Peloquin engages audiences of all ages with historical anecdotes about the men who sailed the high seas, and traditional songs sung on sailing vessels.

Space is limited to 45 people in the building at any one time — tickets are available on a first-come first-serve basis on June 14. Also enjoy free walking tours of Munjoy Hill at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. and free walking tours of Eastern Cemetery at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. Enjoy Flag-making Activities for Children from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on the Observatory lawn, weather permitting.

‘Threats, Opportunities and Possibilities in Asia’ 5 p.m. The World Affairs Council of Maine announced that Admiral Dennis Blair, former U.S. Director of National Intelligence, will be the featured speaker at the Council’s annual meeting on June 16. “As China continues to grow and increase its influence, America has preserved its power, presence and influence within the Pacific region.

At the same time, other Asian countries are left trying to navigate between China and the United States. Using this as a foundation, Admiral Blair will speak on ‘Threats, Opportunities and Possibilities in Asia.’ He will address both short and long term issues in Asian security, including disputes, rivalries, and challenges, as well as security areas in which the United States and Asian countries, including China, can cooperate - countering piracy, disaster response, and cooperation against Islamic extremist groups. In addition, he will speak about economic and business issues in Asia as these interrelate with security concerns.” Annual Business Meeting at 5 p.m.; dinner and presentation at 6:30 p.m. Portland Country Club, 11 Foreside Road, Falmouth.

‘The Marvelous Wonderettes’ in Brunswick

2 p.m. Maine State Music Theatre opens its 53rd season with an Off-Broadway musical comedy hit, “The Marvelous Wonderettes,” which runs from June 8 through June 25 at the Pickard Theater in Brunswick. “‘The Marvelous Wonderettes’ stars four talented actresses: Brittany Morello, Lara Seibert, Night of Champions Morgan Smith, and Danielle Erin Rhodes. MSMT’s presentation is directed by Chan Harris and choreoUSA Boxing & Dinner Show graphed by Jacob Toth. The show’s creator, Roger 5:30 p.m. Join the Portland Boxing Club as it Bean, served as a consultant to Harris and Toth begins a Father’s Day Weekend Tradition with the during the early rehearsal process. The musical highOn Thursday, the Portland Public Library and its popular “Wisdom at Work” series will first “Night of Champions USA Boxing & Dinner lights four young women at their high school prom feature Dr. Amy Wood, author of “Life Your Way: Refresh Your Approach to Success and Show” featuring athletes from USA Boxing New in 1958 and again at their 10-year reunion in 1968 Breath Easier in a Fast-Paced World,” in the library’s Rimes Auditorium, 5 Monument England. Featuring Celebrity Host Micky Ward. as they discuss their lives through pop hits from the Square. The free public series — held noon to 1 p.m. Thursdays throughout June — are The event will consist of eight featured bouts high‘50s and ‘60s. For tickets, contact the MSMT box designed to make work life more satisfying and offer insights into an individual’s current lighting local and regional boxers from New England. office at 725-8769, visit the box office window in Ticket will include a prime rib dinner, dessert and job or job search, organizers noted. (COURTESY PHOTO) person at The Pickard Theater or purchase online at appetizer menu with cabaret style ringside seating www.msmt.org. The show runs until June 25. Matiin the round. “Not a bad seat in the house with cigar and after ‘The Blue Moon Chronicles’ nees are at 2 p.m. and evening shows are at 7:30 p.m. For dinner drink tent on our patio. This is a one of a kind event that 7 p.m. Pearwater Productions brings to Lucid Stage “The specific dates and availability, please contact the box office is a sure entertainment evening.” $75 pp or $750 per table of Blue Moon Chronicles,” “a wonderfully funny and critically or visit the website. The Pickard Theater is located at 1 Bath 10. Reserved table: $65. Produced by Cityside Events & Portacclaimed, Gay romantic-comedy for its Maine Premiere.

Road in Brunswick, on the campus of Bowdoin College. land Boxing Club. plenty of free parking/21 plus. The Landing ‘The Blue Moon Chronicles’ is a humorous look at gay life.

‘Avenue Q’ at Ogunquit Playhouse

8 p.m. The Ogunquit Playhouse, Route 1, Ogunquit. Box Office 1-800-982-2787 or go online ogunquitplayhouse. org for online ticketing and more information. Through June 18, “Avenue Q.” “‘Avenue Q’ is about real life. It’s about finding a job, losing a job, learning about racism, getting an apartment, getting kicked out of your apartment, being different, falling in love, promiscuity, avoiding commitment, hangovers, Internet porn and discovering the world.” Next on stage: TV & Broadway star, Michelle Lee, in “Summer of Love,” June 22-July 16; “The Music Man,” July 20-Aug. 20; “Legally Blonde” starring Sally Struthers, Aug.24-Sept. 17; and “Miss Saigon,” Sept. 21-Oct. 23.

Portland resident Jeffrey Kagan-McCann wrote the plays.

The first installment of the Chronicles, ‘Once In A Blue Moon,’ first premiered in workshop in Hartford, Conn. Then the show premiered in Seattle, Wash., two years later, then two years later he added its farcical companion piece, ‘My Gay Son’s Wedding.’ Both plays were instant hits and played to sold out houses. In 2002, he premiered both plays together under the new title, ‘The Blue Moon Chronicles.’

The play centers on Eric Callahan, a young, ambitious, uptight, Jewish-Catholic, gay Lawyer from New Haven, Conn., who’s searching for the meaning of love, happiness and acceptance.” Playing in June. At 2 p.m. Sunday. Visit www.lucidstage.com/events for showtimes.

Wednesday, June 15

Thursday, June 16

Acorn Productions hosts Southern Maine combined theater auditions 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. An annual tradition returns to Southern Maine this June when Acorn Productions once again hosts the Southern Maine combined theater auditions. The auditions take place on Wednesday, June 8 from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. and Wednesday, June 15 from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in the Acorn Studio Theater, 90 Bridge St. in Westbrook’s Dana Warp Mill. The auditions offer local actors a chance to showcase their talents in front of most of the major directors and casting agents in Southern Maine. Although most companies are looking for professional actors, Acorn Productions is committed to making the arts accessible to all members of the community, and any actor is welcome to audition regardless of their level of experience, although Acorn requests that actors do not audition this year if they have auditioned for the previous two or more years at this event. Actors wishing to sign up for an audition slot can do so at the following website: www.acorn-productions.org/ audition.html.

Author Wood at Wisdom at Work series noon to 1 p.m. The Portland Public Library and its popular “Wisdom at Work” series will feature Dr. Amy Wood, author of “Life Your Way: Refresh Your Approach to Success and Breath Easier in a Fast-Paced World,” in the library’s Rimes Auditorium, 5 Monument Square. The free public series — held noon to 1 p.m. Thursdays throughout June — are designed to make work life more satisfying and offer insights into an individual’s current job or job search. Wood, who has private practices in Portland and Kennebunk, will be discussing “How to Make a Professional Impact.”

“Wisdom at Work” continues June 23 with “Is Your Resumé Doing Its Job?” featuring Kim Aniania, KMA HR Consulting, and June 30 with “What Everyone Does, But Few Do Well: Effective and Painless Networking,” featuring Barbara Babkirk, Heart at Work Career Counseling.

Friends of Portland Public Library book sale preview 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Following on the success of last year’s giant book sale, the Friends of Portland Public Library are back with an even larger selection of books, records, CDs

at Pine Point, Scarborough, www.thelandingatpinepoint.com.

Doors at 5:30 p.m., fight at 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. 774-4527.

DownEast Pride Alliance networking 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The DownEast Pride Alliance presents a “Business After Hours” Networking Event at Caiola’s at 58 Pine St., Portland. “Early in the month and being held on a new night in conjunction with Pride Week. Delicious appetizers, cash bar and media table will be provided.

Caiola’s uses the finest, freshest local ingredients to create an atmosphere where friends, family & neighbors can come together and celebrate. See you at Caiola’s for cocktails and conversation!” FMI: www.depabusiness.com

Peony Bloom and Ice Cream Social 6:30 p.m. At Gilsland Farm Audubon Center, the members of Maine Audubon’s Peony Circle of Friends are the people, businesses and organizations who have supported Maine Audubon for 20 years or more through volunteer work, membership, or other financial gifts. The Peony Bloom and Ice Cream Social is at Gilsland Farm Audubon Center, Falmouth. http://www.maineaudubon.org/explore/event/ peony.shtml

Jerry Seinfeld at Merrill 7 p.m. Due to popular demand, America’s premier comedian is hitting the road in a return to his first love — standup comedy. Hailed as “the master stand-up comic of his generation” and “the best comedian of our time” in a Washington Post article by Tom Shales, Jerry Seinfeld has an uncanny ability to joke about the little things in life that relate to audiences everywhere. Seinfeld now sets his sights on performing his material across the country in 2011. His tour will visit Portland at Merrill Auditorium on June 16 at 7 p.m. Tickets available online at porttix.com, the Porttix Box Office located in Merrill Auditorium or charge by phone 842-0800. see next page

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Songwriters by the Sea at Fifth Maine 7:30 p.m. Fifth Maine Regiment Museum, 45 Seashore Ave., Peaks Island. $10 per person. The second concert of the 2011 Songwriters by the Sea series is hosted by local singer/songwriter Phil Daligan. Songwriters by the Sea is a six-part concert series featuring up-and-coming artists from around New England and beyond. This concert features Vanessa Torres whose passionate songs are rooted in themes of compassion and hope; and Connor Garvey’s soulful vocals that span folk, rock and pop tunes. Portlander Putnam Smith, a multi-instrumental songwriter in the Appalachian tradition, completes the program. “Come and enjoy a pleasant ferry ride across the harbor and night out on Peaks Island.” For more information about the concerts: Phil Daligan at pdaligan@maine.rr.com or 766-4421.

Friday, June 17 Friends of Portland Public Library book sale 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Following on the success of last year’s giant book sale, the Friends of Portland Public Library are back with an even larger selection of books, records, CDs and DVDs. The book sale will offer tens of thousands of books and related items and will take place in the Catherine McAuley High School Gymnasium located at 631 Stevens Ave. in Portland from June 16 through June 19.

A special preview for members of the Friends of Portland Public Library will be held on Thursday, June 16 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. New members are always welcome. The $10 membership fee can be paid at the door or online at www. friendsofppl.org. The public hours for the book sale are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday, June 17 and Saturday, June 18, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday, June 19. More information about the Friends of Portland Public Library can be found at its website: www.friendsofppl.org.

Art is Community II — Gallery Exhibition in Bar Mills 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday through Sunday, June 17-19, in the Old White Church, 15 Salmon Falls Road, Bar Mills, next to the Saco River Grange Hall, “Art is Community II” — Juried Show and Sale of fine arts. “Back by popular demand, by both the artists and viewers, after last year’s spectacular success, this juried show and sale of regional artists and fine crafts includes paintings, prints, sculptures, and interactive art-making for visitors during the opening weekend. Last year’s turn- out of creative children and parents was very exciting. This year the show will remain hanging through July 17, to be viewed by audiences at the cello concert and other events.” For more information please call Pat at 929-6472 or Susan Orfant at 642-4219. Reception with the artists: Friday, June 17, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Gallery hours: Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Or by appointment. Admission is free.

EqualityMaine honors U.S. Sen. Susan Collins 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. “Pride Weekend is a perfect time to celebrate the repeal of the military’s discriminatory ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy. EqualityMaine along with a host committee of community members will be honoring Maine’s own Sen. Susan Collins and her unique leadership in repealing ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ in the U.S. Senate.” The Portland Regency, 20 Milk St., Portland. To RSVP and secure your ticket, please visit www.EqualityMaine.org.

‘Winter in Wartime’ at the PMA 6:30 p.m. Portland Museum of Art presents “Winter in Wartime” as part of its Movies at the Museum series. Friday, June 17, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, June 18, 2 p.m.; Sunday, June 19, 2 p.m. Rated R. “Nazi-occupied Holland, 1945.

In a snow-covered village, 13-year-old Michiel is drawn into the Resistance when he aids a wounded British paratrooper. Michiel‘s boyish sense of defiance and adventure soon turns to danger and desperation, as Michiel is forced to act without knowing whom to trust among the adults and townspeople around him. Wartime’s harsh reality encroaches on childhood innocence as Michiel confronts good and evil, courage and duplicity, and his own burden of responsibility. Winter in Wartime is based on the awardwinning semi-autobiographical novel of the same name

by Dutch author Jan Terlouw, who experienced five years under German occupation and whose vicar father was twice arrested and threatened with execution. In Dutch, German, and English with English subtitles.” http://www. portlandmuseum.org/events/movies.php

Maine Roller Derby Gay Pride 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The women of Maine Roller Derby join this year’s Gay Pride festivities, skating in the Dyke March and the Pride Parade and hosting a “big, gay roller derby bout!” Dyke March: The pre-show, with the theme “Celebrating Multiple Identities in the Dyke Community,” will be held in Monument Square on Friday, June 17 from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. MRD skaters will support the preshow and join the march up Congress Street. The Pride

Meg Wolff is a two-time survivor of cancer — bone and then breast cancer. “Doctors gave me little hope after I’d been through all the traditional medical treatments. So I gave a macrobiotic diet a try. I believe it saved my life. I eat a more modified plant-based diet now and remain very healthy 12 years out,” Wolff writes on her website (http://www.megwolff.com). Wolff, a healthy-eating advocate and author from Cape Elizabeth, will lead a four-person panel to answer questions on Friday, June 17 after the first showing at the Nickelodeon theater in Portland of the “Forks Over Knives” documentary. (COURTESY PHOTO) Parade: The Pride Parade will occur on Saturday, June 18, at 12:30 p.m. We will skate up Congress Street, then down High Street to Deering Oaks Park, where the Pride Festival will be held from 1-5 p.m. Roller Derby Bout After the festival, MRD hosts a bout with the Port Authorities playing against the Long Island Roller Rebels. Derby offering a $3 discount off door tickets to adults wearing a rainbow.

Rated Local: Short Works from Maine Filmmakers 7 p.m. The St. Lawrence is launching a local monthly film series. Please contact Whitney McDorr at the St. Lawrence for inquiries or film submissions — whitney.mcdorr@stlawrencearts.org. “We will begin our series with the second installation of ‘Rated Local’ a collection of short works on film spanning all genres from comedy, suspense, experimental, music video, and documentary works. ‘Rated Local’ is strong evidence of the rapidly growing film community in Maine. The filmmakers include Jay Brown, Walter Ungerer, Jeremiah McDonald, Nicholas Brennan, David Camlin, Petra Simmons, Marc Bartholomew, Mo Twine, and Derek Kimball. Rated Local is a project organized by Portland’s own Eddy Bolz, David Meiklejohn and Allen Baldwin. This screening of Rated Local will also feature never before seen clips and trailers to important up-and-coming local film projects such as horror shorts from the newest and yet to be screened Damnationland 2011!” $5. For more information on this event as well as screening to come, visit www.stlawrencearts.org

Portland premiere of ‘Forks Over Knives’ 7 p.m. Author/two-time survivor Meg Wolff will lead a Q&A discussion at the June 17 Portland premiere of “Forks Over Knives.” Healthy-eating advocate and author Meg Wolff of Cape Elizabeth will lead a four-person panel to answer questions June 17 after the first showing in Portland of the “Forks Over Knives” documentary. “The film explores the idea that most of our major health issues — including heart disease, cancer and diabetes — can be prevented and even reversed — by following a whole-foods, plantbased diet (based on whole grains, beans and vegetables).

‘Forks Over Knives’ will have a weeklong run at the Nickelodeon theater in Portland, starting with a 7 p.m. showing on June 17. A short Q&A session will follow this showing, with questions fielded by Wolff, two doctors — John Herzog, an orthopedic surgeon in Falmouth, and Reuben Bell, a family physician in Saco — and a representative of Whole Foods Market. Wolff, a survivor of both bone and breast cancer who credits adopting a plant-based diet with helping to save her life, was moved to help bring the film to Portland after seeing it in New York City last month.

Film critic Roger Ebert, who no longer can eat solid foods because of thyroid cancer, offers an explanation of this way

Hailed as “the master stand-up comic of his generation” and “the best comedian of our time” in a Washington Post article by Tom Shales, Jerry Seinfeld has an uncanny ability to joke about the little things in life that relate to audiences everywhere. Seinfeld now has set his sights on performing his material across the country in 2011. His tour will visit Portland’s Merrill Auditorium on Thursday at 7 p.m.(COURTESY PHOTO) of eating in his review of ‘Forks Over Knives’: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110511/ REVIEWS/110519995

Birdie Googins in Freeport 7:30 p.m. Birdie Googins a.k.a. the Marden’s Lady at Freeport Factory Stage. The last thing in the world Birdie expected — was becoming a supermodel. In Southern Maine the press calls her a phenomenon; in Northern Maine she’s proclaimed an Icon. The status of a super model has it’s challenges: Keeping her mascara from running while racing from the paparrazzi being just one of them. No matter what region she’s appearing in, she’s regarded as hilarious. Performances are Friday, June 17 and Saturday, June 18 at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are $22.50/$17.50 seniors and students, and are available through Brown Paper Tickets, visit www.freeportfactory.com or call 865-5505. 5 Depot St., downtown Freeport, one block east of L.L. Bean.

‘The Marvelous Wonderettes’ in Brunswick 7:30 p.m. Maine State Music Theatre opens its 53rd season with an Off-Broadway musical comedy hit, “The Marvelous Wonderettes,” which runs from June 8 through June 25 at the Pickard Theater in Brunswick. “‘The Marvelous Wonderettes’ stars four talented actresses: Brittany Morello, Lara Seibert, Morgan Smith, and Danielle Erin Rhodes. MSMT’s presentation is directed by Chan Harris and choreographed

by Jacob Toth. The show’s creator, Roger Bean, served as a consultant to Harris and Toth during the early rehearsal process. The musical highlights four young women at their high school prom in 1958 and again at their 10-year reunion in 1968 as they discuss their lives through pop hits from the ‘50s and ‘60s. For tickets, contact the MSMT box office at 725-8769, visit the box office window in person at The Pickard Theater or purchase online at www.msmt.org. The show runs until June 25. Matinees are at 2 p.m. and evening shows are at 7:30 p.m. For specific dates and availability, please contact the box office or visit the website. The Pickard Theater is located at 1 Bath Road in Brunswick, on the campus of Bowdoin College. see next page

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team behind the project must soon make a “sizable payment” on a 25-acre development plot, and that they won’t make that type of commitment unless “we know we are working in a cooperative fashion” with the city.

To that end, the city council held a special meeting last night that addressed the proposed 30-year tax-increment financing plan for the development, which would include a conference center, hotel, office buildings, a restaurant, and 3,500-seat arena for the Maine Red Claws minor league basketball team.

The special meeting caught at least one city councilor by surprise, and its timing was questioned by at least two other councilors.

The tax deal, which was endorsed less than a week ago by the city council’s Community Development Committee, would let developers keep $31.4 million out of an estimated $58 million in new property taxes over 30 years.

The city would receive about $26.4 million of that tax revenue spread over 30 years, minus 3 percent that would be set aside each year in a fund for transportation improvements.

If the site is left undeveloped, it will generate about $3 million in property taxes over the next 30 years. Currently, the parcel is home to a propane company and the rail authority that runs the Amtrak Downeaster train.

Thompson’s Point is located at the end of Sewell Street, just steps from the Portland Transportation Center, in the city’s Libbytown neighborhood.

A study commissioned by developers said the project would create more than 1,200 jobs during construction and sustain about 450 jobs each year afterward. The project is due to be completed in late 2013. Those figures could not be independently confirmed.

Regardless, some city councilors weren’t thrilled that a special city council meeting was called to give the tax deal a first reading, a step one councilor called “unusual.”

“It’s not common for the council to have special meetings to get a first reading on the agenda, and it’s really the desire of the developer to get the financing in place based on the pressure the developers are receiving from their investors.

That’s what’s gotten the city to this place.” — City Councilor Dave Marshall Major agreements like this one require two readings by the city council before a vote can be held.

“I do not see the need to move so fast,” Councilor John Anton said in an email. “The developer has yet to identify tenants for the office buildings and says that they can't close unless they have tenants.

My understanding is that they have a $100,000 payment due to the seller, which I believe can be extended.”

“It is unusual,” Councilor Kevin Donoghue said of the meeting. “It is not yet known to me how or why the judgment was made that a special meeting was warranted.”

Mayor Nick Mavodones said he called the meeting on the request of the Community Development Committee. He added that he wants to see this TIF matter settled by the end of June.

Councilor Dave Marshall said scheduling the first reading for a special meeting was “not the cleanest way to move forward” but added that developers were pressuring the city to make a decision this month.

“It’s not common for the council to have special meetings to get a first reading on the agenda, and it’s really the desire of the developer to get the financing in place based on the pressure the developers are receiving from their investors,” Marshall said.

“That’s what’s gotten the city to this place.”

Marshall said he was “not totally comfortable with the process being laid out” regarding the TIF discussion.

“I would prefer to follow the regular process, where we would have a regular first reading at a regularly scheduled meeting,” he said.

Developers say the tax-increment financing deal is necessary to offset higher-than-normal costs due to unusual soil conditions at the site. Also, upgrades at a railroad crossing on the site are expected to cost upwards of $1 million.

Speaking to city councilors yesterday, Jennings said the project would become a “true destination” in the city similar to L.A. Live, the development in Los Angeles that includes the Staples Center, home of the Los Angeles Lakers, among other venues. He and other supporters cite the project's proximity to multiple modes of transit and say it offers amenities not currently found in the Portland market.

The development is expected to meet LEED silver conservation standards or better, and include free public access to trails and a boat launch into the Fore River.

Jennings said developers have a “pretty aggressive time line” in place because the development window on a project like this can "open and close quickly." “Any number of things could impact (the project) if we extended it over a long time,” he told councilors.

At the special meeting and a workshop that preceded it, councilors inquired about potential demand for new hotels and office space amid high vacancy rates downtown and also wondered if the 3 percent figure to be set aside annually for transportation could be adjusted.

City economic director Greg Mitchell said the amount of money set aside for transportation each year could be amended up or down in the future.

He predicted the office towers at Thompson’s Point wouldn’t compete with vacant office space on Congress Street, and pointed to new hotel construction as evidence that the market needs more rooms.

Councilors didn’t take action on the tax break proposal last night. A vote on the issue is expected at the city council’s June 20 meeting.

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SLANT Storytelling Series 7:30 p.m. In the SLANT Storytelling Series, writers, performers, and notable community members tell ten-minute stories to a live audience without notes or props. Free, all ages. SPACE Gallery. “The stories this time all focus on ‘losing’: getting ‘Rolf-ed’ and letting go of your inhibitions, witnessing the aftermath of a suicide bombing, hearing about your loss on television, and losing in order to find your voice. Storytellers will include Portland Press Herald columnist Bill Nemitz, singer-songwriter Emilia Dahlin, New York Times best-selling author Melissa Coleman, Writer and Telling Room Executive Director Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, 9-time biathalon national champion and near-Olympian Walt Shepherd, and Lulu Hawkes, a student at Catherine McAuley High School and Maine State Poetry Out Loud Champion. presented by The Telling Room, in association with the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, and SPACE Gallery. For more information, go to www.space538.org or www.tellingroom.org or call 774-6064.

‘The Blue Moon Chronicles’ 8 p.m. Pearwater Productions brings to Lucid Stage “The Blue Moon Chronicles,” “a wonderfully funny and critically acclaimed, Gay romantic-comedy for its Maine Premiere.

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‘The Blue Moon Chronicles’ is a humorous look at gay life.

Portland resident Jeffrey Kagan-McCann wrote the plays.

The first installment of the Chronicles, ‘Once In A Blue Moon,’ first premiered in workshop in Hartford, Conn. Then the show premiered in Seattle, Wash., two years later, then two years later he added its farcical companion piece, ‘My Gay Son’s Wedding.’ Both plays were instant hits and played to sold out houses. In 2002, he premiered both plays together under the new title, ‘The Blue Moon Chronicles.’ The play centers on Eric Callahan, a young, ambitious, uptight, Jewish-Catholic, gay Lawyer from New Haven, Conn., who’s searching for the meaning of love, happiness and acceptance.” Playing in June. At 2 p.m. Sunday. Visit www.lucidstage.com/events for showtimes.

for Saturday, June 18 at Port City Music Hall in Portland from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m., where DJ Rich Ladue will join local DJs, drag performers and dancers. http://www.southernmainepride.org

The Parcel of Rogues at Peaks 8 p.m. Peaks Island is the site of a couple of Father’s Day weekend concerts which also coincides with Peaks Fest and Civil War Day Sesquicentennial Commemoration programs at the 5th and 8th Maine Regiment Memorial Buildings. The Parcel of Rogues, Scottish Music Contra-Dance & Concert; 8th Maine Memorial Building, Peaks Island, $7 adults, $4 children, 8thMaine.org; 766-5086

Maine AIDS Alliance nightlife event 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. In conjunction with Southern Maine Pride, The Maine AIDS Alliance will produce two nightlife events.

Both dubbed “Life,” the first event will be held at MaineStreet bar in Ogunquit on Friday, June 17, from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m., featuring DJ Randy Bettis, with the second event scheduled

Dave Nadeau with Southern Maine Pride displays a section of a rainbow flag. This week, Southern Maine Pride ramps up for a weekend parade and festival. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)

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