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Crowdfunding is an online money-raising strategy that began as a way for the public to donate small amounts of money, often through social networking websites, to help artists, musicians, filmmakers and other creative people finance their projects.Through the federal Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, small businesses and entrepreneurs will be able to tap into the “crowd” in search of investments to finance their business ventures. Under the new law, however, these investments opportunities will not be regulated or scrutinized for their legitimacy.
Attorney General William J. Schneider, 25 other attorneys general, the National Federation of Independent Business and four individual plaintiffs will begin an unprecedented six hours of oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court challenging the Federal Government’s Health Care Act.
Spectrum Generations is once again collaborating with AARP to offer tax preparation services at its community centers throughout Central Maine. This free service is open to any member of the community for support with personal income taxes now through mid-April. Appointments are required for all locations, and fill up fast. For those interested in scheduling an appointment, contact Spectrum Generations at 1-800-639-1553 or the community center closest to you.
Please join us as we kick off the 2012 Republican Campaign Season. Start now and join friends as we celebrate a successful caucus week. Sign up for campaigns, meet candidates, join the grass roots team in your town! Saturday, February 11, 2012 5:30 p.m. Portland Regency RSVP by February 5, 2012 to Michelle michelle@mainegop.com or call 622-6247
Spectrum Generations is once again collaborating with AARP to offer tax preparation services at its community centers throughout Central Maine. This free service is open to any member of the community for support with personal income taxes now through mid-April. Appointments are required for all locations, and fill up fast. For those interested in scheduling an appointment, contact Spectrum Generations at 1-800-639-1553 or the community center closest to you.
If you are watching television or listening the radio at 2:00 pm on Wednesday, November 9, 2011, you will see or hear a *test* emergency message from Washington, DC.It is a test of the federal government’s ability to send an emergency message nationwide in the event of a national crisis. Maine radio and television stations and cable TV systems, along with satellite TV companies, will participate in this first nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS).
President O’bama has been pressing nearly everyday for a back to work program for the countless thousands of unemployed or underemployed Americans. Fact is that the nation is broke, the people are broke and if we were to look at the country in purely economic terms, we are bankrupt. If the country was a business, it would qualify for the same insolvency protections afforded businesses in the same boat. “Balance the budget”, is the cry from many in Washington. People, we ain’t ever going to balance a multi-trillion dollar budget deficit so clearly a better approach is to put people back to work so that they can keep their homes, provide educational opportunities for their children, and protect individual financial stability for this generation and those to follow.
As the non-partisan Brennan Center for Justice points out, in the last few years there has been an aggressive effort to restrict voting as legislators around the country have been pushing bills that make sweeping changes to their election codes to limit the voting rights of students and movers, reduce early voting days, and restrict voter registration and “get-out-the-vote” mobilization efforts.
New funding available for Maine exporters MITC will be holding a STEP grant session on Wednesday, November 2nd from 9:00 to 10:30 am at MITC’s head office 511 Congress Street, [...]
From Bangor, Maine to San Diego, California, nurses, fed up with the ongoing economic crisis, will call on Congress members in their local district offices September 1 to support a tax on Wall Street financial speculation, a revenue source fast becoming an international norm, to pay for healing the nation. While Wall Street banks got bailed out of the financial crisis that they caused, Main Street towns like Bangor are suffering.
The briefing series is a unique opportunity for Maine leaders to come to Washington to hear directly from White House officials on the issues that are affecting communities across Maine and learn more about the President’s priorities and initiatives from the people that work on them every day. In return, Administration staff gets to hear what’s going on in cities and towns across Maine directly from the experts – Maine community leaders.
I’m writing you today as we again partner with the American Family Association. They recently brought to our attention the hostile and discriminatory actions by veterans officials in Houston, Texas, and this must stop now. The Department of Veterans Affairs and its local Houston director Arleen Ocasio are engaging in religious discrimination in violation of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and the Religious Freedom Act.
Re-enactment of a Civil War recruiting drive. In observance of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, join Company B, 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Civil War Re-enactors and the Presque Isle Historical Society to see soldiers and civilians in civil war garb, authentic civil war memorabilia including an officer’s sword and promotion certificate. See what a “call-up” would have looked like in 1861.
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