As I sit here reflecting on the events that transpired this morning, I can’t help but get emotional. As a mother to young children, it is every parent’s worst nightmare that your child gets hurt, or worse, be involved in a serious accident. Driving my child to school on the morning on Oct. 5 was […]
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Question 3 won’t provide sensible gun control
There has never been an initiative that seems to have created such disagreement as Question 3 – the gun registration provision for private sales and transfers. I’ve given this proposal considerable thought, and decided I cannot endorse this initiative. Let me preface my comments by saying I am not a hunter, recreational shooter or avid […]
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Proud to support Hymanson
Patty Hymanson should be reelected to continue serving York, Wells, Ogunquit and Sanford. She has represented Maine people well, offering a progressive voice in the Legislature. She has opposed Gov. LePage on crucial issues. She even challenged him in person at a Town Hall forum in Sanford, where his people tried to remove her. We […]
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Support for Woodsome
I’m pleased to offer my support to David Woodsome, a candidate for re-election to state Senate District 33 covering the towns of Cornish, Limerick, Newfield, Parsonsfield, part of Sanford, Shapleigh and Waterboro. Dave has done a tremendous job working for us for the past two years, spending hours working with his constituents from one corner […]
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Presidential contest is all over but the counting
Two weeks ago, a woman from New Jersey approached me in The Spaniard, a pub and restaurant in Kinsale, Ireland. “You look Irish,” she said, “but you sound American.” “That’s easily explained,” I answered. All eight of my great-grandparents emigrated from Cork and Kerry to the United States during the late 19th century. Over there, […]
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Michelle Obama Hillary’s secret weapon
A dam is a young African- American man of our acquaintance who strongly supports Hillary Clinton, but he admits that his friends and contemporaries are far less enthusiastic. A “big, big problem for HRC,” he says, “is the lying. Everyone realizes that she has a habit of bending the truth.” So can anybody get through […]
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National polling can’t predict electoral vote
How could this week’s election in the country of Colombia tell us anything about the U.S. presidential election? Simple. Reputable polls there forecast an overwhelmingly favorable vote on the peace deal between the government and rebels. The agreement lost by a slim margin. The moral of the story for us is that American media focuses […]