“Have you talked to Dad this week?” my sister Jane asked me. “He told me that Dr. Sam told him to stop driving.” “There’s no telling how many innocent lives will be saved.” “It’s not a joke. How’s he going to get around? How is he going to buy groceries? How is he going to […]
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Hartford Courant (Conn.): Double-dipping by municipal employees – collecting full retirement benefits while simultaneously being paid for full-time employment – isn’t dead quite yet in Connecticut. But thanks to a wise decision by Superior Court Judge Carl J. Schuman, it’s in its last throes. Judge Schuman ruled recently in separate cases involving the denial of […]
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Saco–Biddeford on a roll
In the spirit of the season of lighting Christmas trees, decorating houses, windows and lighting candles, the Pepperell Mill Campus is lighting up a 300-foot-high candle. The exhaust stack attached to the boiler house of the mill has presided over the two cities and the Saco River for more than 100 years. It towers over […]
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In Iowa, is Trump stronger than people think?
Who’s leading the Republican presidential race here in Iowa? Most recent polls say Ted Cruz, including last month’s edition of the influential Des Moines Register poll, which had Cruz ahead of second-place Donald Trump by 10 points. Yet there is a nagging sense – at least nagging to rival campaigns – that Trump may be […]
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Rutland Herald (Vt.), Jan. 6: Vermont legislators, who have gathered this week to begin their 2016 session, should have been paying attention Tuesday as President Obama spoke out with passion and candor about the need for improved regulation of gun sales. The Legislature has a long history of quiescence on guns, relying on timeworn, familiar […]
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Unfinished business
After years of trying to motivate Congress to act on improving gun safety laws, President Obama has decided to go it alone. I fully understand his motivation to proceed cautiously. We have arrived at a point where we will sell guns to a terrorist or a criminal in the false claim of protecting ourselves, even […]
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It’s a whole new campaign
Marco Rubio unleashed an attack on Ted Cruz. Donald J. Trump bought his first television ad, almost certainly to blunt the surge of Cruz. Chris Christie took off on Trump, suggesting the billionaire businessman wasn’t a “grown-up.” Then Trump opened new questions about whether Cruz, born in Alberta, Canada, satisfied constitutional strictures for the presidency. […]
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Second session of the 127th Maine Legislature begins
This past Wednesday, the 6th of January, the Maine Legislature reconvened for the second session of the 127th Maine Legislature. With much speculation surrounding the possibility of impeachment of the governor or some sort of censure, the first day of the session began and ended with little mention of any pending motions. Most importantly, we […]