AUGUSTA — The prospective buyer of a company planning to build a natural gas pipeline through the Kennebec Valley region plans to spend $150 million on a massively expanded project.
2012
Posted inOpinion
KATHLEEN PARKER: Our faith in government damaged badly by Watergate, its aftermath
Forty years ago, all of America learned the name of a particular condominium, hotel and office complex along the Potomac in the nation’s capital.
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Togus powwow honors armed forces service
TOGUS– Amidst and the drumbeat and dancing, Keith Richards found a family. It came with all the subtlety of a 6-by-6 beam smashing against his head.
Posted inNews
Cyclists have fun raising funds in sun
WATERVILLE — Judith Blanchard was geared up and ready for the 40-mile bicycle trek to Belfast.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Can no one stop bloodshed in Syria?
Is there nothing the international community can do to stop the bloodshed in Syria?
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Distracted driving epidemic not slowing down
They’re pretty easy to spot. They’re either going way too fast or way too slow.
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ON MAINE POLITICS: Difficult path lies ahead in election
There’s been a fair amount of chatter from local political pundits about how the outcome of the U.S. Senate race will measure the health of the Maine Democratic Party.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
Supporting Angus King for senator from Maine
I was so glad to see that former Gov. Angus King had turned in the signatures to be on the ballot as an independent from Maine for U.S. Senate in November. When Sen. Olympia Snowe announced her departure, she decried the “My way or the highway politics of D.C. and the Congress.” Unfortunately, we see […]
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Title IX hasn’t leveled the field
Four decades after legislation took effect mandating equal opportunity for girls and women in education and any program receiving federal funding, compliance remains a challenge.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
Obama has reversed downward spiral of US
Recently, a political fundraiser contacted me for a donation. During our discussion, I asked whatever happened to “government by the people, for the people.” Deja vu. 1971 Washington and around 200,000 were chanting the same thing. Look where we are at now. Politicians have put themselves up on a pedestal. They make salaries that most […]