AUGUSTA — Chelsea C. Maurice and Will J. Toner, together with their families, are happy to announce their engagement and upcoming wedding.
March 2013
VIEW FROM AWAY: Beware illusions pushing stock prices to record highs
The stock market, in normal times a reliable proxy for an economy’s health, reached record levels last week. And why not? Corporate profits are higher than ever. The housing market is springing back. Auto sales are on pace for the best year since 2007.
COMMENTARY: Dow hits a record, but who reaps the rewards?
You’ve heard the old joke about the stockbroker showing a friend all the luxuries he’s bought with the commissions paid by his customers — big house, big car, big yacht. And the friend asks, “But where are the customers’ yachts?”
ON BASEBALL: A fine young man moves on
* Ryan Westmoreland never made it to Portland as a baseball player, but he did visit Hadlock Field to say hello to friends on the team.
COMMENTARY: Social media difficult for those who aren’t social
I recently hired a student to help me get wired into what I’m told is the minimum needed to survive in today’s digital world. So now in addition to Facebook, I am able to link in, tweet, Google Plus and other things I can’t remember because I haven’t used them yet.
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Our foreign aid helps bolster governments that could be worse
Sequestration is not the best time to be doling out foreign aid, surely the most unpopular item in the federal budget. Especially when the recipient is President Mohamed Morsi of Egypt.
OUR OPINION: Good health care costs less than bad care
You don’t have to cut corners to lower health care costs.
We need to know products in our homes are safe
As mother of two children, 2 and 9 years old, I pay careful attention to what I buy for my kids. I am constantly frustrated at the number of unsafe chemicals found in everyday products.
Alcohol abusers should not be allowed firearms
So, if people have abused drugs, they can’t have a firearm, but, if they abuse alcohol, they’re allowed a firearm?
OUR OPINION: Energy efficiency cheapest, cleanest power available
What if Maine could build a power plant that produced electricity at quarter of the rate home customers now pay?