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Seth Koenig

Portland
As seen in: The New England Journal of Medicine, Bangor Daily News, Blueprint Leadership with CMSAF Kaleth Wright, DVIDS, Stars and Stripes, Tips for the Trade, MMORPG.com, WOAI-TV (San Antonio, TX), Sun Journal (Lewiston, ME), KABB-TV (San Antonio, TX) and
Covers:  portland, southern maine
Mainer. Formerly @bangordailynews & @mdcollegian | @umass alum | Boston sports fan | needs of the @usnavy
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More girls from Maine and Portland being forced into $32 billion sex trade

More girls from Maine and Portland being forced into $32 billion sex trade

bangordailynews.com — Young women and girls are being lured from their lives in Maine and disappearing into a dark world, where they are regularly beaten, raped and sold all over the country. According to service providers and law enforcement experts, the modern-day slave trade is not only alive in Maine, but relies on this outlying state as a key source of new slaves to keep the illegal, violent and largely unseen $32 billion industry running.
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Portland's bottomless pit: The hefty price of keeping sewage out of our water

Portland's bottomless pit: The hefty price of keeping sewage out of our water

bangordailynews.com — "I look out my window at the bay and it's brown," said Casco Baykeeper Joe Payne. "When I see just the visuals from a storm like that and know that millions and millions of gallons of pollutants and sewage and runoff went into the bay it makes me anxious and saddened."
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Shellfish harvesters plagued by acidic 'dead muds'

Shellfish harvesters plagued by acidic 'dead muds'

bangordailynews.com — They're called dead muds. Rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere combined with unregulated nitrogen pollution are having a deadly effect on Maine's shellfish, some researchers say. Scientists are starting to measure the impact of increasingly acidic waters on coastal organisms, and what they've found is alarming. Formerly fertile shellfish flats are becoming uninhabitable wastelands of dreck.
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Police chief honored for island rescue opens up about childhood abuse

Police chief honored for island rescue opens up about childhood abuse

Bangor Daily News — Growing up, John Skroski never really felt he could give in to sleep. On the good nights, he would stay awake until the house went quiet, then sneak down the creaky wooden steps, terrified of being caught, and make his way to the loaf of Wonderbread in the kitchen. On the bad nights, he would lay in bed with his nerves needling in anticipation, knowing that at any moment, he could be dragged out for more abuse.
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Legacy of goodwill, charity may be only future for terminally ill 8-year-old

Legacy of goodwill, charity may be only future for terminally ill 8-year-old

bangordailynews.com — Every time somebody leaves 8-year-old Kyle St. Clair's room, the boy says a parting "I love you" and blows a kiss. It doesn't matter who's leaving. It could be a family member or a person he met for the first time moments before. He's adamant about it. Every time his mother Kate goes to bed at night, she silently prays she will be able to see her son alive when she wakes up. Every time his father, Mark, has to leave for his job with an office design firm, he is gripped with fear that Kyle will be gone before he returns home.
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The Holy Grail in Maine? History Channel researcher's theory touches off fresh debate about Phipp...

The Holy Grail in Maine? History Channel researcher's theory touches off fresh debate about Phipp...

Bangor Daily News — “It’s the greatest story that’s never been told. What you guys have in Maine are some of the most important historical relics in the history of the country. They make Plymouth Rock look like a pebble on the beach.”
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Could Saudi Arabia be Bath Iron Works' next big customer?

Could Saudi Arabia be Bath Iron Works' next big customer?

bangordailynews.com — Historically a dealer of warships exclusively to the U.S. Navy, Bath Iron Works may find itself a new big-spending customer in the coming years: the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The Saudi government is eyeing a major overhaul of its seaborne military, and multiple reports suggest the deep-pocketed Arabian monarchy is willing to spend between $20 billion and $23 billion to accomplish the job.
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Does Portland have a First Amendment problem?

Does Portland have a First Amendment problem?

bangordailynews.com — Free speech. America's founders felt so strongly about it they protected it in the very first amendment they tacked on to the U.S. Constitution. But in Maine's largest city, more than 220 years after the Bill of Rights was adopted, free speech has become a regular point of dispute. Over the past two years, the city has landed in court twice to fight claims it infringed on the First Amendment rights of demonstrators, and might a third time if a larger U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2014 doesn't clear up the debate over buffer zones around abortion clinics.
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Sediment buildup between Portland piers a 'slowly evolving crisis'

Sediment buildup between Portland piers a 'slowly evolving crisis'

Bangor Daily News — A conundrum now vexes the city’s waterfront community: Should the city and private pier owners pay exorbitant amounts to dredge the material clogging the space between piers, or adapt to a reality in which, eventually, only smaller boats will be able to dock in Portland?
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The big question of whether to dredge the Kennebec River

The big question of whether to dredge the Kennebec River

The Times Record — Lawmakers, shellfish harvesters, environmentalists, shipbuilders and Navy sailors are among the vast number of stakeholders waiting to see whether a study of the Kennebec River bottom later this month shows sufficient depth for a destroyer to sail away from Bath Iron Works.
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Maine needs immigration to grow its population, economy

Maine needs immigration to grow its population, economy

Bangor Daily News — "It can't be one Band-Aid program, but really a concerted effort. It's not just about one policy, but about many things a community can do collectively to make a better environment for immigrants."
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Latest wave of identity thefts targets Maine children

Latest wave of identity thefts targets Maine children

bangordailynews.com — A recent Carnegie Mellon University study, which looked at 40,000 U.S. children's records, found that more than 1 out of every 10 had their identity stolen and used for some sort of financial activity. The youngest of the victims was 5 months old.
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Maine parents struggling as cost of raising children rises while incomes stagnate

Maine parents struggling as cost of raising children rises while incomes stagnate

bangordailynews.com — The cost of raising children is growing faster than parents' abilities to pay it, a trend that's placing more Maine youths in poverty and potentially leaving the next generation at a disadvantage as it inherits the state.
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Tempers flare, lawsuits mount over Windham development

Tempers flare, lawsuits mount over Windham development

Bangor Daily News — Oversights and mistakes in the lot sale records for a Windham development over the past decade, which went largely unnoticed for years, have today snowballed into a neighborhood free-for-all leaving homeowners with hurt feelings, potentially unmarketable homes and tens of thousands of dollars in legal bills.
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School redistricting talk in Portland triggers uproar among parents in Libbytown

School redistricting talk in Portland triggers uproar among parents in Libbytown

Bangor Daily News — Parents in a section of Portland's Libbytown neighborhood say school redistricting proposals would force their children to change schools twice in four years, an unfair burden to solve school crowding problems that should command a citywide solution.
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