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Slate says this is Maine’s best word. What would you pick?
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Interactive map shows abandoned gold, silver and uranium mines all over Maine
SkyTruth is a West Virginia organization which, according to the Discovery Channel, uses “technology such as remote sensing and digital mapping to highlight environmental problems.” In its latest project, SkyTruth used U.S. Geological Survey data to create an interactive map of all the abandoned mines in the country’s records, and ended up showing an enormous number […]
Check out the ratio of single men to women where you live
Single, educated men looking for love might try getting to know Kennebec County better. That’s because there are 5.2 single, college-educated women in their 30s there for every single, college-educated man in the same age group, according to a recent analysis of U.S. Census data by TIME. That’s one of the highest ratios of women […]
The most common job held by immigrants in Maine is college professor
Agricultural worker is the most cited job in the Pacific Northwest and California. In the farmland of Nebraska and Iowa, it’s butcher.
Track how incomes in every state have changed over the past 85 years with this GIF map
This interactive map shows what would happen if the Hiroshima bomb fell on your hometown
What 2 years of Google’s data say about the state of Maine’s roads
How Maine’s gas taxes compare with all the other states
Tax Foundation put together this map of gas taxes for each state (click on the image for a larger view). It shows that Maine ranks towards the middle of the pack — it’s the 22nd highest — with 30.01 cents in state taxes and fees per gallon of gasoline. Compare that with the highest, Pennsylvania, […]