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PublishedJune 6, 2014
Obama honors WWII, 9/11 generations at Normandy
He spoke from the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, where nearly 10,000 white marble tombstones sit on a bluff overlooking Omaha Beach.
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PublishedJune 6, 2014
OUR OPINION: Thumbs up, thumbs down
‘Party with Consent’ movement, Alexander’s uninvitation, D-Day catch our attention this week
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PublishedJune 6, 2014
ALAN CARON: Where’s tea party outcry over million-dollar Alexander fiasco?
Imagine what the tea party would be doing right now if a Democratic governor had offered a no-bid contract for nearly a million dollars to an ideological crony whose primary job was to set up arguments for the governor’s re-election. The indignation and outrage would be deafening. Now go a step further and imagine that […]
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PublishedJune 6, 2014
MAINE COMPASS: For one Maine family, World War II and D-Day put lie to glory of combat
Suzanne Hedrick
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PublishedJune 6, 2014
Ann McFeatters: Sacrifice, success of D-Day will never be forgotten
Decades after my father landed in Europe during the D-Day Battle for Normandy, he finally talked about it, including the horror of watching men laden with heavy packs and weapons drowning because they couldn’t swim in the frigid, churning water. He also talked about the grit, bravery and determination of the young Allied soldiers as […]
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PublishedJune 6, 2014
Second Amendment might need interpretation
In Bruce Poliquin’s Maine Compass, “Second Amendment right to keep, bear arms inviolate, not open to interpretation” (June 3), he writes that the Second Amendment doesn’t need to be interpreted. I’m not so sure. Words don’t interpret themselves. Does “arms’ include sawed-off shotguns? Bazookas? Do I have the right to carry a weapon on an […]
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PublishedJune 6, 2014
Urging Collins, King to support power plant standards
Every day, we hear more evidence that changes in the global climate are real and threatening: New examples of extreme weather, the alarming rate of species extinction, and the melting of the West Arctic Ice Sheet that could result in a sea level rise of 12 feet by 2100. Some changes feel more immediate and […]
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PublishedJune 6, 2014
Discovering humanities helps us discover ourselves
Joseph Reisert’s column about the humanities (“A world without humanities,” May 30) raises two big questions and then proposes a solution that sounds reasonable and practical, but it is neither. First, he surveys the sciences and the humanities, and he mentions the notion of progress. He cites steady progress in natural science; in social science, […]
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PublishedJune 6, 2014
FROM THE STATE HOUSE: Maine deserves more from its CEO
Rep. Seth Berry
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PublishedJune 6, 2014
Today’s editorial cartoon
June 6, 2014
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