Sometimes you find out more about someone in death than you ever knew about them in life.
Posted inSports
MLB: Epstein thanks Boston
BOSTON (AP) — Departing Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein has taken out a full-page ad in his hometown newspaper to thank Boston fans, the team’s owners, players and others.
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ON MAINE POLITICS: Busy week in Augusta
AUGUSTA — It’s looking like a busy week here at the State House, with the Appropriations Committee meeting today, the streamlining task force meeting Friday and a few things in between.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: GOP renews attack on reproductive rights
Only a tiny sliver of Planned Parenthood activities is tied to abortion, and no federal money can be spent on the procedure. But this limitation isn’t good enough. The organization — and an estimated 5 million low-income women served by Title X — must be cut off.
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HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Mustangs in and will stay home
Not only did the Mt. View High School football team make the playoffs for the first time in its five-year history, the Mustangs earned the No. 4 seed in the Little Ten Conference tournament, and will host a game on Saturday.
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VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: No easy answer for release of captured Israelis
During centuries of exile and wandering, the Jewish people have, sadly, accumulated immense experience with extortion and abductions. Wherever they went, Jews tended to excel but, unfortunately, often lacked the means to defend the fruits of their labor. Too often they became easy prey for kidnappers.
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VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: China’s fiscal growth tilts distribution of income
The steady slowdown of the world’s second largest economy may disappoint those who are hoping it will be the driving force for the global economy, which is teetering on the edge of a double-dip recession.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
Editorial about Cain missed the mark
It seems that somewhere I’ve heard that Herman Cain was president and CEO of Godfather’s Pizza. Oh, yeah. It’s been plastered over every news outlet, countless times. How many voters know that he also has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, a master’s degree in computer science, was a mathematician for the Navy, a computer systems […]
Posted inOpinion
MAINE COMPASS: Emails spread false claims about effects of AT&T, T-Mobile merger
As an elected official, nothing is more important to me than growing good jobs in Maine. I have dedicated much of my time to finding ways to attract new jobs to our state and, even more importantly, saving the ones we already have.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
Extras on potatoes are bad, not spuds themselves
Currently a hot discussion about the value of potatoes in the diets of children suggests that potatoes are much to blame for producing fat kids. As far as I know from researching nutrition for my cookbooks, newspaper and magazine articles, potatoes are good for us. It’s the butter, sour cream and rivers of saturated-fat gravy […]