Along with October comes the busiest and most intense part of campaign season, with this year no exception. In fact, this may prove to be the most attention-grabbing election in some time, with voter participation rates in Maine predicted to reach as high as 75 percent, exceeding the turnout rate in 2008 of just higher […]
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EDITORIAL – Informed choices amid all the noise
Along with October comes the busiest and most intense part of campaign season, with this year no exception. In fact, this may prove to be the most attention-grabbing election in some time, with voter participation rates in Maine predicted to reach as high as 75 percent, exceeding the turnout rate in 2008 of just higher […]
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR – A frightening ?long-term plan
Your first paragraph of Sept. 27 editorial mentioned a 2006 Brookings Report and the term “sustainable.” I nearly lost my cookies. In 2006 a Brookings Institution group calling themselves GrowSmart Maine made recommendations for Maine’s future. It scared me because the results of these wonderful-sounding recommendations would have undermined our freedoms. I believe in unalienable […]
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DOWN THE ROAD A PIECE – Some kudos to the colonists
They say time flies when you’re having fun, and we must be having a great time in Maine when you stop and think it’s now been more than 400 years since an outfit known as the Plymouth Company attempted to establish an English colony with 120 hearty souls at the mouth of the mighty Kennebec […]
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ESPECIALLY FOR SENIORS – When you need a lawyer
Maine Legal Services for the Elderly is an organization comprising experts who provide free help Mainers who are 60 and older and “economically challenged.” If you need help with a legal situation, you should always seek the advice of a lawyer. Areas of concern for Maine elders include health-care decisions, contractor issues, grandparents’ rights, real […]
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POLITICS AND OTHER MISTAKES – Framing Charlie
“The senator wasn’t cut out for crime. He was the kind of man who’d use vanity plates on a getaway car.” –Andrew Vachss, from his novel “Blossom” After the first of his three unsuccessful runs for Congress, Charlie Summers, now a Republican U.S. Senate candidate, was asked by a reporter if his defeat had put […]
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QUINN'S CORNER – Accurate? Well, it sounds good
Hitler used to quote Charlemagne and Frederick the Great. In the same vein, U.S. political campaign speeches today often quote the leaders who set the United States up in business 200-odd years ago. Unfortunately, when these American ancients are quoted on such 21st-century matters as health care, gay marriage or gasoline taxes, their thoughts are […]
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LETTER TO EDITOR – Central tenets missed
It just recently came to my attention that Rodney Quinn took the time to write a brief expose? last month (Aug. 23) regarding the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Unfortunately the piece contained many important factual errors and misconceptions regarding the history, doctrines, and character of the church. I wrote to Mr. Quinn […]
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LETTER TO EDITOR – Central tenets missed
It just recently came to my attention that Rodney Quinn took the time to write a brief expose? last month (Aug. 23) regarding the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Unfortunately the piece contained many important factual errors and misconceptions regarding the history, doctrines, and character of the church. I wrote to Mr. Quinn […]
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EDITORIAL – Only slight movement since influential report
Following its release in 2006, and for a few years after, no publication was cited as often as the Brookings report. Entitled “Charting Maine’s Future: An Action Plan for Promoting Sustainable Prosperity and Quality Places,” it was a collaboration of the Brookings Institution, a national think tank, and GrowSmart Maine. The report acted as a […]