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PublishedJuly 25, 2012
RSU 18 budget proposal drops another half-million
A recent letter to the editor from the Sidney Board of Selectmen indicated that the RSU 18 Board of Directors is not doing its job very well since it didn’t reduce the proposed school budget by another million dollars or so. (The budget has been reduced by almost half a million dollars since it did […]
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PublishedJuly 25, 2012
RSU’s 18 cost per student $1,000 below state average
On Thursday, the citizens of RSU 18 will vote on a revised budget from the school board. This has been a troubling and difficult time for all. Unfortunately, some misinformation is circulating, and we are losing focus on the success of our district and the students. Our teachers are some of the best in the […]
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PublishedJuly 24, 2012
Military sexual trauma finally getting visibility
I would like to publicly thank U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree for her leadership in responding to the need for more help for veterans who have experienced military sexual trauma. A congressional hearing on Wednesday about legislation sponsored by Pingree addressed the difficulty of proving sexual trauma for obtaining veterans’ benefits and treatment for post-traumatic stress […]
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PublishedJuly 24, 2012
Was Colo. massacre result of prescription drugs?
Such a sad tragedy in Colorado. We are all so sorry for those involved. My first thought, a question really, was, “What kind of prescription drugs was he taking?” If it was a drug prescribed for depression, we’ll probably never hear about it, and we can thank medical privacy and HIPAA regulation. I’d like to […]
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PublishedJuly 24, 2012
Banda a great candidate for district attorney
Kennebec and Somerset counties are indeed fortunate to have Darrick Banda running for district attorney. He has lived in, been educated inn and worked for the people of Maine. Darrick has chosen to serve the people of Maine as assistant district attorney of Kennebec and Somerset counties for five years. During that time, he has […]
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PublishedJuly 23, 2012
Drastic measures needed to stop climate change
Our atmosphere and climate have undergone drastic changes, both in the past and present, because of incremental changes caused by living things. The first such change occurred 3 billion years ago, when our atmosphere was about 20 percent carbon dioxide and had essentially no free oxygen. The temperature of the earth was in the right […]
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PublishedJuly 23, 2012
Even Vigue doesn’t know what future will bring
I keep thinking back to Peter Vigue’s public address in Dover-Foxcroft on May 31. The most telling moment for me was his response when asked about his proposed east-west highway’s official tagline: Transportation-Utility-Communications. Several times, he said his company, Cianbro, has no intention to have a gas line or cable run along the highway. When […]
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PublishedJuly 23, 2012
Whatever Olay is, it may be salvation of women
A few years ago, I was impressed with the amount of advertising for Oil of Olay that appeared on television, claiming to make women beautiful. I had never heard of Olay and wrote a letter to the editor what Olay was that supplied all that oil. I received no answer, but the ads stopped. Now […]
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PublishedJuly 22, 2012
LePage sees poor, needy as scourge of our country
Gov. Paul LePage recently compared the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the mandatory health insurance provision in Obama’s health care legislation to the “new Gestapo — the IRS.” LePage’s Gestapo comment may be accurate in reference to his bullying approach. As the son of Nazi Holocaust survivors, I have learned about Nazi intimidating tactics. Upon […]
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PublishedJuly 22, 2012
Maine not open for business but embarrassment
So now we have the Gestapo comment. Once again, but surely not for the last time, Maine’s not as much “open for business” as open for embarrassment. Just as the recent Supreme Court ruling ruined M.D. Harmon’s summer by creating an “abyss,” Gov. Paul LePage surfaces with his abysmal vocabulary and characteristic thoughtlessness. In 2008, […]
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