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March 2, 2013

M.D. HARMON: Electric cars running out of juice in race to be our greenest solution

Those urging us to buy electric cars -- not gas-electric hybrids, but cars running on batteries alone -- say they are the future answer to the world's ground transportation requirements.
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March 2, 2013

Maine police chief got one-sided view of Israel

On Feb. 10, the newspaper carried an article about the visit of Col. Robert Williams, chief of the Maine State Police, to Israel to learn about anti-terrorist techniques. The article was interesting for what it said and what it did not.
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March 2, 2013

Fifth-grader seeks information about Maine

My name is Cassidy. I am a fifth-grader at Faith Christian School in Kearney, Neb. My class is studying the 50 states and I have chosen Maine as my state.
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March 2, 2013

VIEW FROM AWAY: The day when drones fill domestic skies

While millions of Americans have made peace with Google posting online pictures of their front doors, and having video cameras pointed at them in every coffee shop, workplace and public setting imaginable, the notion of camera-equipped drones buzzing overhead in nonmilitary settings is making many want to duck for cover.
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March 2, 2013

When properly prepared, horsemeat is delicious

I wonder what caused the current brouhaha about eating horsemeat.

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March 2, 2013

78 percent rise in insurance cost not good news

In a recent Maine Compass, Sen. Rodney Whittemore, R-Skow-hegan, who works on the Legislature's Insurance and Financial Services Committee, describes the results of Maine's new health insurance law (Public Law 90) as "remarkable," "encouraging," "affordable" and "a testament to the power of the free market."
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March 2, 2013

Homosexual, heterosexual pedophiles equally bad

The more I see about the controversy surrounding the Boy Scouts allowing gays to join, the more I see people just don't have a clue.
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March 2, 2013

Reisert gets ‘incomplete’ grade for recent column

In his column published on Feb. 22, "1923 Supreme Court: Minimum wage law an unjust means to a good end," Professor Joseph Reisman argues that minimum wage laws are a bad idea because such laws substitute wages set by the government for wages set by the marketplace.
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March 2, 2013

Maine, US on slippery slope toward disaster

Maine and the United States are on a slippery slope toward disaster.
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March 2, 2013

People in our lives not fantasy; they’re real

I went to a local coffee shop recently and was sitting quietly at my table and watched a boy, perhaps 7 or 8 years old, playing at a table. A young woman, perhaps in her early 20s, was sitting by his side.