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By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN

PORTLAND, Me. — It is shaping up as one of the most challenging years that anyone can remember for Republican senators seeking re-election. But as other Republican incumbents elsewhere are battling for their political lives, Senator Susan Collins appears to be gliding toward a third term.

Seacostonline.com - The Senate has approved the fiscal year 2009 Defense Authorization bill, which includes key provisions authored by Senator Susan Collins that support work at Bath Iron Works, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, the University of Maine, Saco Defense, Pratt & Whitney, and other Maine companies....Read More >>>

Bangor Daily News - As a member of the executive board for the local union at the Domtar mill in Baileyville, I was involved with the negotiations for the severance package of the dislocated workers. As we began our negotiations, the company made it clear that it was going to base the severance pay on the 2007 W2s. This was unacceptable as most of these workers were laid off for most of 2007. After weeks of negotiation we were at deadlock.

The Times Record - While cranes stretching over Bath Iron Works have long marked the shipbuilding industry's hub along the Kennebec River, a new industry is emerging with another set of cranes on the opposite shore at Reed & Reed contractors in Woolwich.

The 80-year-old business, founded by Josiah Reed and his son, Carlton Day Reed, and perhaps best known for building bridges like the $75 million Prospect Verona Bridge hung by cables over the Penobscot River, has taken a lead role in erecting Maine's wind power industry.