Responding to Maine Gun Owners Association’s President Jeff Weinstein’s (article, Dec. 21): “The best and only protection you have from the bad guy’s gun is your own,” is as tactical as suggesting the best way to protect yourself from drunken drivers is to drive drunk yourself. This thought won’t resolve anything. Is Weinstein willing to pay all salaries, training, liabilities, consequences etc. that could go wrong?
2012
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
Needed: Way for citizens to change the Constitution
There is wide spread dissatisfaction with our federal government. Congress and the president are unable to resolve the fiscal cliff stalemate. The Supreme Court in “Citizens United” allows unlimited funds to be spent by corporations and the super rich to control elections.
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Posted inSports
LOCAL ROUNDUP: Lawrence boys hockey tops Winslow
WINSLOW — Josh Doolan had three goals and the Lawrence boys hockey team scored three times in the third period to beat Winsow 6-3 on Saturday night.
Posted inOpinion
New Year’s resolution for Legislature: Let’s get along and get some work done
My wife, Birdie, gets appropriately irritated with me when I suggest New Year’s resolutions she might want to consider for herself. “Stick to your own,” she tells me. So it is with some trepidation that I suggest one resolution for a whole bunch of people … the 186 incoming members of the 126th Legislature. Here it is: “Let’s work together. Republicans, Democrats, Independents, Red Sox fans, Yankees fans — all of us.”
Posted inPolitics, Senate
House won’t vote today on ‘fiscal cliff’ deal
The House will miss the midnight Monday deadline lawmakers set for voting to avoid the “fiscal cliff.”
Posted inPolitics, Senate
Senators clash over gun-control plan
President Obama says the American people must be ‘willing to make different choices for the country.’
Posted inNews
Project Login aims to double state’s computer science graduation rate
AUGUSTA — The mismatch between existing and future jobs in Maine, and the workers willing and able to do them, applies across many fields, from hospitality to advanced manufacturing.
Posted inNews
2012 a year of violence, justice and renewal
In 2012, central Maine saw violent deaths, numerous pharmacy robberies, a natural gas war, progress on construction of a new $312 million regional hospital and $55 million courthouse, and the flight from Maine of a former prosecutor free on bail while his child pornography convictions were appealed.
Posted inNews
REPORTING ASIDE: Make 2013 the year we stop hurting children
I have two hopes for the new year: That we recognize that we adults are responsible for what happens to children, and that we stop the violence we force on them.
Posted inNews
Kennebec Journal area police log, Dec. 30, 2012
HALLOWELL — Two people were taken to MaineGeneral Medical Center by Augusta Rescue Saturday evening, following a two-vehicle crash involving a city plow truck at Second and West streets.