A law is a law, and two people charged with the same offense should reasonably expect the same result.
2012
Posted inOpinion
GEORGE SMITH: Wood pens powerful memoir about her childhood in Mexico
Two years ago, I met Monica Wood in Portland’s Longfellow’s Cemetery, where we were both bird watching. I was thrilled to meet one of my favorite novelists and tell her how much I enjoyed all four of her novels.
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Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
RSU 18 budget proposal drops another half-million
A recent letter to the editor from the Sidney Board of Selectmen indicated that the RSU 18 Board of Directors is not doing its job very well since it didn’t reduce the proposed school budget by another million dollars or so. (The budget has been reduced by almost half a million dollars since it did […]
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
In spite of drop in test scores, students fare well
The article about Maine’s educational testing decline over the last 20 years, “Study: Maine among worst in boosting test scores” (July 19), deserves comment. First, our kids went from No. 3 to No. 14 among the states that participated in this assessment. We slipped, but the article did not report any hard numbers. Could we […]
Posted inNews
Vt. trooper overtime scandal may be bigger than originally thought
A Vermont trooper, who resigned after allegedly getting $56,000 in unworked overtime, may have been falsifying time sheets for years.
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More teens using condoms, but still not enough
About 60 percent of sexually active high school students say they use condoms, which is up from 46 percent in 1991. But that’s still not good enough, doctors say.
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Batman star Christian Bale visits Colo. shooting victims
A Warner Bros. spokeswoman told The Denver Post that Bale was representing himself, not the movie studio.
Posted inNews, Sports
1912 Red Sox World Series trophy to be auctioned
The sterling silver trophy has all the players’ names etched on it. It will be auctioned Aug. 2 in Baltimore during a national sports collectors convention.
Posted inNews
Canadian man sentenced for smuggling drugs into Maine
A federal judge in Maine has sentenced a 41-year-old Canadian to 13 months in prison for trying to smuggle oxycodone into the U.S.
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Budget office: Obama’s health law reduces deficit
Republicans have insisted that “Obamacare” will actually raise deficits — by “trillions,” according to Mitt Romney. But that’s not so, the budget office said.