The Ron Paul contingency should be congratulated for its well-organized participation at the Maine Republican Convention. Now that their impact has been made so strongly, it is now time for them to continue those efforts by supporting the Maine Republican Party in volunteer participation, fund raising, attending county and state meetings on a regular basis, […]
2012
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MIKE TIPPING: Only new investment in education will make Maine lose No. 1 ranking
For the past four years, in a series of columns, I’ve been tracking the debt burden placed on Maine college students. In 2009, we were fourth in the nation in student burden. Last year, we were second.
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We’re on brink of social and economic collapse
No matter where I look, be it KJOnline, MSNBC or Fox News, I see the same thing, finger-pointing. Our country has become one of spineless bellyachers who stand on their soapboxes blaming everyone and everything other then themselves (or their parties) for all the ills of the nation. Bipartisanship is dead across this country; no […]
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Chinese dissident likely not only one who’d like to defect
Is the president campaigning for a second term or auditioning for Hollywood? This new fiasco with the Chinese dissident seems a little shady. Aren’t there thousands of major players in China who would love to defect, people who could really benefit the United States. All these celebrities insist on paying their fair share, so why […]
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OUR OPINION: What does it say when Legislature stirs no opinion?
The 125th Legislature comes back to Augusta today sporting an 18 percent approval rating in the latest poll.
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Supporters of gay marriage pledge $100,000 to cause
AUGUSTA — Two wealthy Democratic activists from New York have pledged $100,000 to Mainers United for Marriage, kicking off a four-week matching gift challenge in an effort to pass the gay-marriage proposal on November’s ballot.
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Missing woman’s family praises searchers
FAIRFIELD — The Maine Warden Service and Maine State Police searched the Kennebec River area in a boat and floatplane Monday for a 62-year-old Skowhegan woman presumed killed Saturday night when her vehicle plunged into Martin Stream alongside U.S. Route 201.
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COMMENTARY: Lugar should have seen the writing on the wall
The Republican senator from Indiana lost his bid for a seventh term last Tuesday. So badly that he got 39 percent of the vote in the GOP primary. So badly that the guy he lost to — state Treasurer Richard Mourdock — had run unsuccessfully for office five times before.
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STILL LIFE: Water problem
Waterville firefighters and Thomas College personnel scramble to place sandbags to divert rushing water from a water main break at the Waterville campus on Monday. Water gushed up through the ground along the new entrance road and drained toward the Student Center, and toward the main campus parking lots.
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No charges pending in Waterville pedestrian accident
WATERVILLE — No charges are pending in a car-pedestrian accident that occurred Sunday at JFK Plaza off Kennedy Memorial Drive, according to Deputy police Chief Charles Rumsey.