The Katahdin region’s largest taxpayer has agreed to pay $1.25 million in overdue property taxes to East Millinocket and Millinocket by mid-August, officials said Friday. Cate Street Capital leaders committed to paying the $900,000 in property taxes the company owes for the 2012-13 fiscal year during a meeting on Monday, Millinocket Town Manager Peggy Daigle said. “We […]
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Compare Maine, N.H. on all factors
Anyone interested in eliminating income taxes eventually finds their way to a Maine/New Hampshire comparison, as a writer for Forbes magazine did Friday. In a column on the magazine’s website, Travis Brown wrote, “Maine doesn’t attract the level of derision that extremely high-tax states (like New York) do.” That surprised us after all of the […]
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Violence: In the heat of the night
One of the most widely accepted verities in the news business is that when temperatures go up, violent crimes are more likely to occur. It seems logical, but is it really true? The reasoning is simple: People are living in crowded households and neighborhoods. City streets and buildings act like heat magnets, increasing the temperatures […]
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Northern Pass to submit revised route plan to feds
CONCORD, N.H. — Officials with the Northern Pass project plan to soon file an amended route with the federal government to begin the review process needed to build a 187-mile power transmission line moving energy from Canada into New England. The privately financed project announced a new route last week to bring high-voltage, Canadian hydroelectric […]