https://www.centralmaine.com/2012/03/page/264

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March 1, 2012

MLB: Yankees don’t take bait over Valentine jabs

TAMPA, Fla. -- On the final day of February, Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter were dragged into the first Yankees-Red Sox stir of the year.
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March 1, 2012

Mercer to consider paving road, community center heating

MERCER -- Residents will decide Saturday whether to approve heating system improvements at the Mercer Community Center and paving a section of Old Route 2.
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March 1, 2012

Time to adopt an open, statewide primary vote

As a lifelong Republican, I must write this letter to express my embarrassment in Charles Webster, our Republican Party state chairman, and the uproar his caucus organization has caused. Webster, by his magic wand, made the statewide caucus vote official before all the votes were reported, including Washington County and parts of Waldo County. He […]
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March 1, 2012

MAINE COMPASS: Bill would protect landowners from some ‘regulatory takings’

Some government policies harm the individual to such an extent that any benefit to society as a whole becomes very hard to justify.
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March 1, 2012

Local control of education should top state control

The Maine Legislature has before it a bill titled, “An Act to Prepare Maine People for the Future Economy,” L.D. 1422. Its goals are praiseworthy, but it mandates that schools use an essentially unproven method of instruction called standards-based education, aka RISC or customized learning. It sets aside traditional methods of instruction that have been […]

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March 1, 2012

Police say car occupants shot at

SKOWHEGAN -- A 20-year-old Cornville man was arrested Wednesday morning after allegedly firing a single shot from a .22-caliber rifle through a car's windshield while the driver was still inside.
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March 1, 2012

Time to say no to legions of sanctimonious bullies

The Republican primaries have shown an appalling display of contempt for the separation of church and state. The conservatives have fallen over each other, demonstrating their fervent preference for religious myth over democracy. I see religious conservatives as the American Taliban: ready and anxious to stuff their religion down our throats. Ready to cause murderous […]
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March 1, 2012

Mainers react to departureof Sen. Olympia Snowe

Question: Now that Sen. Olympia Snowe has announced she won't seek reelection, what would you like to see in the next U.S. senator for Maine?
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March 1, 2012

BRIEFS

RICHMOND, Va. -- A judge has blocked a federal requirement that would have begun forcing U.S. tobacco companies to put large graphic images on their cigarette packages later this year to show the dangers of smoking.
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March 1, 2012

Same-sex couples don’t want to change marriage

I’m writing in reply to Stan Davis (Maine Compass, Feb. 14) about marriage for gay and lesbian couples (“In pondering marriage equality, consider what is best for child”). I’m 15 years old and attend Messalonskee High School. I am volunteering to make marriage legal for same-sex couples. There are people who worry that this will […]