Want to collect unemployment benefits in Maine? You'll have to actively apply for jobs each week later this month, as The Bangor Daily News reports.
The Maine Department of Labor announced that it plans to bring back the state's ordinary work search requirement for those collecting unemployment, something state officials waived at the start of the coronavirus pandemic with many businesses shut down. After the first stage of the lockdown, however, they never re-implemented the policy.
A member of the Worcester School Committee who voted for a comprehensive sex education program on Thursday quoted from Pope Francis and cited the experience of Catholic Ireland as support for her position.
Tracy O'Connell Novick, who was one of five members of the committee to vote for Rights, Respect, Responsibility, published by Advocates for Youth, referred to comments Pope Francis made about sex education during a flight to Panama in January 2019.
