Celeste Sloman
Attorney General Letitia James is no stranger to a fight. After waging battles with the Trump administration, New York’s top legal officer – and the first woman of color to hold statewide office – is keeping her attention trained on the former president’s questionable real estate ventures, while also taking on Facebook, Google, the New York City Police Department and the National Rifle Association. This year, her office issued a damning report on New York’s undercount of nursing home deaths due to COVID-19, and she appointed two independent attorneys to investigate allegations of sexual harassment against Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a former ally who she might be well positioned to replace at some point in the future.
Maine Voices: Intercity passenger rail could solve many of Maine’s problems
The state should not turn rail corridors into recreational trails and miss a historic opportunity.
By Paul WeissSpecial to the Press Herald
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As we emerge from this difficult COVID year, we need something big for Maine, something transformative, something bold, something that will help solve both economic woes and our next upcoming disaster (of even larger proportions: climate change).
We have this fix, and it is a revolution in the Maine transportation equation. Electric passenger rail service, joining all of Maine’s larger cities, with connections to the rest of the state and to Boston and Canada in the near future! Right now there are several rail bills in the Legislature (including L.D. 227, L.D. 991) that will be the first steps toward that goal. To be clear, this is rail service restoration between Portland’s waterfront and downtown Lewiston/Auburn and Portland through Brunswick and u
The 7 Most Notable Homes in the Washington Area This Month and Who Bought and Sold Them
The nuts and bolts of some of Washington’s most expensive residential transactions
March 16, 2021
Stephanie Cutter, cofounder of Precision Strategies and former Obama adviser.
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Style: Dutch Colonial.
Bragging points: More than 5,000 square feet on a third of an acre, with five bedrooms, seven bathrooms, and a mudroom with a dog-washing station.
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Style: Contemporary.
Bragging points: Four bedrooms and five bathrooms, with an au pair suite, terraced landscaping, and walls of windows.
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Style: Contemporary condo.
Bragging points: A four-story penthouse in Blagden Alley, with three bedrooms and bathrooms, 20-foot ceilings, and a roof deck.
Activists with Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard â a student group calling for the University to divest from fossil fuels â filed a complaint with Massachusetts Attorney General Maura T. Healey â92 on Monday, alleging that Harvardâs highest governing board is violating state law through its continued investments in the fossil fuel industry.
The complaint claims the Universityâs fossil fuel holdings, valuated at less than two percent of the total endowment, represent the Harvard Corporationâs âfailureâ to comply with a provision of the 2009 Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act provision that stipulates that not-for-profit entities have a duty to invest with their charitable purposes in mind.
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Many top-flight lawyers abandoned Donald Trump during his divisive presidency, but he still has two in his corner as he faces his biggest legal threats. Alan Futerfas and Marc Mukasey are representing Trump in two separate New York investigations which could lead to a historic prosecution of the former president. Both lawyers have big courtroom wins under their belts and, perhaps most importantly, won’t ditch their client if the political temperature rises. That’s been a big problem for Trump. Large law firms Morgan Lewis, Seyfarth Shaw and Porter Wright all dumped him amid the outcry over his false claims of a stolen election and the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Trump also struggled to attract big-name lawyers and firms during Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.