SKOWHEGAN — What do you get when you mix high-sugar beet molasses and common highway salt?
December 2011
Why is government intimidated by Occupiers?
Why is our government and our law enforcement so intimidated by the Occupy movement? These taxpaying Americans are expressing the right to disagree with people who earn millions of dollars for doing nothing while hardworking, underpaid Americans get taken advantage of. The law in this country is not fair or equal. The United States is […]
Some solutions for solving D.C. gridlock
My solution to the gridlock in Washington, D.C: As soon as the government shuts down, all salaries to senators and representatives shall cease to be paid pending passage of the budget bill. Their staffs will be required to leave their offices until a budget bill is passed. No senator or congress person will be allowed […]
OUTDOORS: Putting it on film
It’s just plain cold at dawn near the Canadian border as two filmmakers haul their high-tech cameras out on a frozen pond to capture an ice fisherman landing whatever bites.
Morning Sentinel police log: Dec. 17, 2011
IN BROOKS, Friday at 11:25 a.m., a fuel drive off was reported on Veterans Highway.
MLB: Bonds receives delayed sentence
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Barry Bonds will remain free while he appeals his conviction for giving misleading testimony before a grand jury.
Why do we continue to soil our Earth-nest?
M.D. Harmon’s column (Dec. 3) about global warming raises the largely irrelevant issue of whether we are in a natural or manmade period of global warming. I say irrelevant because, while we argue about global warming, our oceans are overfished and chemical fertilizer runoffs create dead zones, and the devastation of our forests leads to […]
Spending is bad, unless we’re shopping till we drop
Corporations and their lackeys tell us not to elect representatives and senators who spend money. They say that spending is bad. So in order to please these big money donors, thereby getting elected, our politicians start laying off workers. By cutting back on the help, there is an immediate mirage of savings. It now looks […]
NFL: Patriots a big test for Tebow, Broncos
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — The Denver Broncos haven’t been to the playoffs since 2006, so they’re in no position and certainly no mood to judge the quality of the opponents they’re dispatching with all this last-minute magic.
Witness: South China bank robber fled on bicycle
SOUTH CHINA — A man armed with a handgun robbed Border Trust Co. on Route 3 at 10:32 a.m. Friday, pedaled a short distance on a bicycle and jumped into a white pickup driven by an accomplice and sped away.