I’d like to take this opportunity to thank the voters who showed up to the polls last week and who took the time to fill out an absentee ballot in the Democratic Primary for State Senate. An election is the last thing on people’s minds in mid-June with our beautiful Maine summer in full swing. […]
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Trump voters hold firm
PITTSBURGH — What happens when the veteran pollster Peter D. Hart invites 11 blue-collar and service-industry voters into a downtown office suite here and bids them to talk politics? You are reminded that the despair among those in families with incomes below $50,000 is as deep as the anger they have expressed at the polls […]
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Editorial Roundup
The Hartford Courant (Conn.), June 14: A question being asked in the heart-wrenching aftermath of the Orlando, Fla., mass murder is: Could a civilian with a gun inside the nightclub have stopped the tragedy before dozens were killed? It’s a question worth discussing, especially because Connecticut has experienced a number of nightclub shootings and it […]
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Judge Nadeau responds to article
The latest article concerning my position as the elected county probate judge was incomplete and laden with misinformation. Complaining county manager Gregory Zinser, paid over $120,000 per year, lacks legal education. He’s had an unprofessional ax to grind in an apparent power trip against me. Yet, he testified he knows nothing about probate court operations, […]
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Trump’s smoke screens
Donald Trump knows how to stir things up – mostly by churning embers until they produce a giant smoke screen. I’ve noticed (as you likely have) that when Trump gets into trouble, he lashes out with a series of accusations that obscure the activity that got him there. Trump enveloped fraud charges by Trump University […]
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The great college coddling
I t’s been 20 years since I started hearing alarming tales from a friend who supervised a day care for hospital employees’ children. She said that for the first time in her considerable experience, the preschool children of medical professionals were pitching full-scale hissy fits – hitting, kicking and even biting their parents, without being […]
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Editorial Roundup
The Providence Journal (R.I.), June 8: Hillary Clinton’s strong showing Tuesday night – including a surprisingly decisive victory in delegate-rich California – made it clear that she will be the Democratic nominee for president, and the odds-on favorite to capture the White House this November. This is a historic moment. She will be the first […]