Gov. Paul LePage did not giving any presents this year, especially to the elderly and handicapped of our state. These people are in nursing homes or boarding homes. These people raised good citizens, and now they can’t do anything for themselves. They have been put out to pasture. Many of them have no living family […]
December 2011
Posted inNews
Celebrated Maine photographer dies
Maine’s photographic community is mourning the death of Madeleine de Sinety, just days before her first solo exhibition in the United States is scheduled to close at the Portland Museum of Art.
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
OUR OPINION: More schooling means jobless learn new skills
At the end of World War II, returning servicemen avoided a glutted labor market by going to college in unprecedented numbers and acquired new skills. A few years later, the result was a cycle of sustained economic expansion and opportunity and the creation of a greatly expanded and durable middle class.
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Morning Sentinel police log: Dec. 30, 2011
IN ANSON, Wednesday at 9:31 p.m., a vehicle crash was reported on Main Street.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
LePage gives no gifts to elderly, handicapped
Gov. Paul LePage did not giving any presents this year, especially to the elderly and handicapped of our state.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
Maybe ‘mugwump’ should be a political party
I was reading the November 1889 “Winthrop Budget” newspaper and came across a Hannaford drug store ad for a national puzzle for Republicans, Democrats, and mugwumps. Now, I don’t know what a mugwump is, but it sounds like a party we might consider in the next election. Can anyone enlighten me as to what a […]
Posted inSports
MLB: Bailey happy to be coming to Boston
BOSTON (AP) — For Andrew Bailey, coming in from the bullpen at Fenway Park is a special feeling.
Posted inOpinion
COMMENTARY: Watch what you drink on New Year’s Eve
Don’t go out and get bombed on New Year’s Eve.
Posted inOpinion
REDBLUEAMERICA: 2011’s best events: Gay rights gains, Occupy
Did anything good come out of 2011? As 2011 comes to a close, it’s easy to look at the American political landscape and see nothing but smoking ruins. The economy is a disaster. Democrats and Republicans can’t agree on how to get it going or on how to reduce the deficit. Gridlock plagues government to an unprecedented degree. But things can’t be all bad, can they? Did anything good happen in politics in 2011? Joel Mathis and Ben Boychuk, the RedBlueAmerica columnists, debate the issue.
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No Sears and Kmart closings so far in Maine
Kmart and Sears stores in Maine were spared Thursday when Sears Holding Corp. released a list of 79 planned store closings.