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PublishedAugust 21, 2011
OUR OPINION: Maine should keep racing for the top
Maine did not fare well last time it applied for funds from Race to the Top, a federal competitive grant program designed to jump-start school reform efforts.
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PublishedAugust 21, 2011
OUR OPINION: Park study would give us facts to argue about
There may be plenty of strong arguments against turning 70,000 acres of Maine's northern woods into a national park, but the arguments against using research to put the park idea to a test sound weak.
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PublishedAugust 20, 2011
VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Washington should heed Buffett’s plea for shared sacrifice
Billionaire Warren Buffett's op-ed piece in the New York Times on Monday provided a neat bookend to last week's Republican presidential debate.
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PublishedAugust 19, 2011
Those in charge of state land sales should know law
Maine lawmakers trying to get answers this week about how a top state employee was able to negotiate the purchase of valuable state property found the effort essentially fruitless.
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PublishedAugust 19, 2011
1 yellow ribbon serves as well as dozens
It might all go back to a 1973 hit by Tony Orlando and Dawn, "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree," though historians say yellow ribbons, handkerchiefs and scarves have long been symbols of awaiting a loved one's return.
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PublishedAugust 19, 2011
VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Don’t eat that lunch
For anyone who remembers the aroma of a grade-school classroom on a hot day, this will come as no surprise: Fawaz Almansour, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Texas-Austin, reports that more than 90 percent of the lunches carried by preschoolers had reached unsafe temperatures long before lunchtime.
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PublishedAugust 19, 2011
VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Social lubricant might foster spirit of compromise
It is perhaps overstating the situation to say that Congress is not suffering so much from a lack of bipartisanship but a lack of alcohol, a social lubricant of proven efficacy.
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PublishedAugust 18, 2011
OUR OPINION: Those in charge of state land sales should know law
Maine lawmakers trying to get answers this week about how a top state employee was able to negotiate the purchase of valuable state property found the effort essentially fruitless.
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PublishedAugust 18, 2011
OUR OPINION: 1 yellow ribbon serves as well as dozens
It might all go back to a 1973 hit by Tony Orlando and Dawn, “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree,” though historians say yellow ribbons, handkerchiefs and scarves have long been symbols of awaiting a loved one’s return.
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PublishedAugust 17, 2011
OUR OPINION: Redistricting map doesn’t have to be radically different
We have seen the Republican plan to redraw Maine's two congressional districts, and we have seen the Democratic plan. We would like to see one more.
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