POLAND — Voters on Tuesday approved all seven amendments proposed to the town charter.
According to town officials, the amendments were primarily minor revisions that sought to correct problems, such as incorrectly numbered sections and paragraphs, or to clarify a few interpretation issues.
For example, the charter requires the presence of 100 registered voters in order for votes on spending articles at town meeting to be valid. Some residents questioned whether the 100 registered voter requirement meant that 100 registered voters had to be present at the opening of polls for the town election at 8 a.m. on Friday — the technical opening of Poland's two-day annual town meeting. The proposed revision made it clear that 100 registered voters are required for action taken at Saturday's business session to be valid.

verified Your first sentence makes it sound like the money is going to go to give all the teachers raises. If any of it is, it's very little. The teachers are doing more than enough work to earn their salaries. Many are placed in extremely challenging positions, and nothing is nearly as black and white as you present it.
LePage's bill refer only to Maine. My experience refers only to Maine. I can't agree with you more that in some places and with some superintendents bad teachers grow like weeds. Its not a problem of teacher evaluations. The administrators know who the bad teachers are just as you and I did. The problem is they will not do their jobs and document why they are bad so that they can be fired.
Normally they use the military solution. I can't get into specifics, but we had a teacher who was worse than incompetent, worse than bad. Gave grades based on gender of the student and explicitly on their relationship. Superintendent promoted the teacher to a non-teaching position at greatly increased pay. Zero documentation.
Paul Nachman is a featured writer on VDARE.com (named for Virginia Dare the first English Child born in Virginia 1587) The site and its editor are well known anti-immigrant propagandists who spend a good deal of time explaining why they are not white supremists and anti-semities even though they have been identified as such by reputable organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Actually, Mr. Nachman's letter says almost nothing. He agrees with the previous letter's author that the law prevents federal payments to illegal immigrants for medical care. He then suggest that illegal payments might be made because illegal immigrants illegally are paid for jobs they can't legally hold.
First, undocumented immigrants are not criminals. They have broken no criminal law. They have broken federal "civil" law.
Then he suggests that if the Affordable Care Act had mandated the use of the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements online program to confirm that a noncitizen applicant for benefits resides in the U.S. legally, then undocumented immigrants would be prevented from getting these benefits. Why would that work? If these people are breaking the law to be here, why wouldn't they get illegal documentation that would let them get jobs and benefits. Fact is they do. Plus nothing in the Affordable Care Act says the government won't use this system. The act merely leaves open the "how" so the government can choose the best system at the time to verify proper payments.
You have to be paranoid to read into this any problem. OOps, guess that's obvious.
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