I don’t want barriers to our citizens voting in the state of Maine. Republican politicians keep repeating the same line about fraud and “vulnerabilities” in Maine’s voting system, but those claims are misleading. Even the leading proponents of the change to curtail Maine voters, Secretary of State Charles Summers and Maine Republican Party chairman Charles […]
October 2011
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NASCAR: Busch wins at Dover
DOVER, Del. — Kurt Busch stormed into contention for a second Cup championship, holding off fellow Chase drivers Jimmie Johnson and Carl Edwards to win Sunday at Dover International Speedway.
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Redistricting reaction seems mostly ho-hum
Word is slow to reach the 11 clerks in Kennebec County whose municipalities’ congressional districts were changed Tuesday by the Legislature.
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MAINE MARATHON: Graves, Crawford win titles
PORTLAND — Evan Graves has been drier, arrived sooner and felt better physically at the end of a marathon.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
HIV-infected MaineCare patients must join plan
As the physicians who oversaw Maine’s HIV Program, we would like to answer a recent letter that claims this program drew gays to move to Maine. The overwhelming source for the higher-than-predicted enrollment in the program was the federal requirement that people already with MaineCare insurance infected with HIV be enrolled in the new program. […]
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VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Saudi promise to let women vote seems empty
Even if the latest promise of granting marginal political rights to Saudi women could be believed, it would be too little, too late. King Abdullah has good intentions regarding their position, but any step forward on rights tends to be matched by two steps back — and not just for women.
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ON MAINE POLITICS: Spotlight on DHHS, education spending
AUGUSTA — When the task force that’s looking for millions of dollars to cut from the state budget returns to Augusta on Thursday, it will spend the day reviewing proposals to trim spending for K-12 education, higher education and the Department of Health and Human Services.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
Quimby’s land simply not national park-worthy
For more than 50 years, landowners large and small have willingly allowed access to old trails and roads for a few weeks in the winter for use by snowmobilers. Exceptions were areas with active logging operations; and these moved about every winter, creating no hardship to anyone, and they were easily detoured around. Now along […]
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Milfoil removal efforts continue on Messalonskee Lake
OAKLAND — Brian Michaud is a hard hat diver who specializes in underwater construction and deep sea diving.
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VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Dead people got $600M in Social Security benefits
For several years, we’ve seen stories about people declared dead by the Social Security Administration. Many went through a lot of hoops to officially resurrect themselves. In the interim, they didn’t get the proper payments due. And for some people, this created a real hardship.