Everything is connected, including the havoc wrought by the destructiveness of war to both humans and the environment. Last September, the Brunswick Times Record sponsored a forum titled “What Price does our Community Pay for the Military Budget?” A panel, consisting of local representatives from health care, education, social services, business and green/environmental interests, addressed […]
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Quinn's Corner – The power of partisan minds
The New York Times maintains two conservatives in its stable of weekly columnists: David Brooks and Russ Douthat. Both are Bill Buckley acolytes and both are well worth reading. A week or so ago, Douthat offered some observations under the title “The Partisan Mind,” which Lucius Flatley thought worthwhile. He brought the column to last […]
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Quinn's Corner – The power of partisan minds
The New York Times maintains two conservatives in its stable of weekly columnists: David Brooks and Russ Douthat. Both are Bill Buckley acolytes and both are well worth reading. A week or so ago, Douthat offered some observations under the title “The Partisan Mind,” which Lucius Flatley thought worthwhile. He brought the column to last […]
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Quinn's Corner – Earmarks are not all bad
Most of the “good guvmint” resolutions floating over Capitol Hill about killing earmarks are spurious – a distraction. It’s like a coach blaming a poor game on the hot dogs sold at the ball park. Those politicians who make so much of how they will fix Washington by eliminating earmarks are, more often than not, […]
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EDITORIAL – Education officials must take hard look at new technology
When the Maine Learning Technology Initiative began putting laptops into the hands of middle school students in 2002, Maine schools rose to the forefront of the effort to fuse technology and education. Now, almost a decade later, laptop computers are being surpassed by new technology, in the form of e-readers, like the Amazon Kindle, and […]
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EDITORIAL – Education officials must take hard look at new technology
When the Maine Learning Technology Initiative began putting laptops into the hands of middle school students in 2002, Maine schools rose to the forefront of the effort to fuse technology and education. Now, almost a decade later, laptop computers are being surpassed by new technology, in the form of e-readers, like the Amazon Kindle, and […]
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EDITORIAL – Officials need to convince entire county on civic center plan
Last week, the Cumberland County Civic Center board of trustees approved a $28 million renovation plan for the arena, which broke ground in 1975 and hosted its first act in March 1977. Among other improvements, the plan would renovate the locker rooms, green rooms and performer spaces, and expand the loading dock staging areas and […]
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EDITORIAL – Cities should make creative reuse of buildings
With the $41.5 million South Portland High School renovation now approved by voters, officials there will likely soon address the city’s remaining building needs. A new or renovated City Hall has been proposed, as has a new public works building. The main library needs work, and the future of the two middle schools, Memorial and […]
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Down the road a piece
Remember grocery shopping? You’d drive to the store, go in, grab a cart, go up and down the aisles getting what you needed, get in the checkout line, read the salacious headlines on the tabloids as your order was being totaled and bagged, pay, leave and go home. So what’s happened? The other day I […]
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Down the road a piece
Remember grocery shopping? You’d drive to the store, go in, grab a cart, go up and down the aisles getting what you needed, get in the checkout line, read the salacious headlines on the tabloids as your order was being totaled and bagged, pay, leave and go home. So what’s happened? The other day I […]