I am writing to urge voters in District 31 to support Justin Chenette for Senate in the primary on June 14. Last June, I co-organized a rally at the State House to urge the Legislature to investigate Gov. LePage’s efforts to sabotage the hiring of Mark Eve by Goodwill Hinkley. In January of this year, […]
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Support Diane Denk for State Legislature
As a resident of District 9, I am writing to express my support for the Democratic candidacy of Diane Denk to represent us in Augusta. The election for candidates will be on June 14, but absentee ballots will be available for those needing them at town offices starting May 16. I have worked with Diane […]
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Trump will wound Republican Party
“And now the rest of the story,” as deceased radio host Paul Harvey Sr. would say. In 2013, CEO Roger Ailes of Fox News dismissed one of his employees. Donald Trump, it’s been reported, intervened, and the person dismissed received severance pay. Under a gag order, nothing would be revealed regarding why the person was […]
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Hobbins works hard for constituents
This letter is in support of Barry Hobbins for state Senate. Politicians come and go, and some of them in Augusta spend a lot of time trying to convince us that they are working hard for us. Barry Hobbins does work hard, but he doesn’t waste any of our time promoting himself. He does his […]
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What does Paul Ryan want from Donald Trump?
Speaker Paul Ryan, the Republican Party’s highest ranking official, stunned the political world last Thursday when he announced he does not now support his party’s presumptive presidential nominee, Donald Trump, and might not ever do so. “I hope to support our nominee,” Ryan told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “I’m just not ready to do that at […]
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Editorial Roundup
The Caledonian Record (Vt.), May 4: On Sunday approximately 50 Egyptian police officers stormed a newspaper in Cairo, assaulted security guards, and arrested two journalists for criticizing the government. According to the Committee for the Protection of Journalists, Egypt is the second worst jailer of journalists, worldwide. In Turkey this week two newspaper columnists were […]
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Battle of opposites
Hubert H. Humphrey was a voluble people-person, Richard Nixon a brooding introvert. George W. Bush was breezy and personable, Albert Gore intellectual and awkward. Barack Obama was black and young, John McCain was white and old. But seldom have Americans faced an autumn decision between two candidates so different in background, outlook, personality, instinct and […]
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Smoking in the boys room
I remember visiting a friend in the hospital many years ago. He was having something removed. Tonsils, a kidney, an appendix – I don’t exactly remember what, it was that long ago. But I vividly remember lighting a cigarette for him as we both smoked and talked about his soon-to-be-missing organ in his hospital room. […]