It’s always good to put your best foot forward when meeting a person from your girlfriend’s hometown, especially when you’re on a bus in costume, writes J.P. Devine.
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J.P. Devine: Does Kavanaugh have a dog?
The questions posed to the Supreme Court nominee covered the salient points, but not the important personal questions, such as whether he has a dog, and whether he wears boxers or briefs, J.P. Devine writes.
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Amy Calder: Those fruits of the earth that bring culinary delights
While store-bought snowballs, devil dogs and creme pastries were childhood delights that lost their luster, home-baked apple pie, applesauce cake and apple crisp came with flavor, ingenuity and love.
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J.P. Devine: Look what you’ve gone and done, Gov. LePage
The governor’s decision to add his name to a case before the U.S. Supreme Court that would allow workers to be fired based on their gender identity or sexual orientation is an outrage, writes J. P. Devine.
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J.P. Devine: What just happened?
When the news of the week included yet another scandal involving priests, this time in Pennsylvania, it had repercussions in Waterville, in his own home, writes J.P. Devine.
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J.P. Devine: POTUS pouting over his lost parade
Being emotionally 9 years old when you’re the president can get you — and the whole world — in trouble, but wanting a big, ‘Ben Hur’-type parade then becomes understandable, writes J.P. Devine.
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J.P. Devine: Women with tattoo’s are everywhere
Once the province of sailors, pirates and professional wrestlers, body art adds a layer of expression to modern women demanding control of their bodies and appearance, writes J.P. Devine.
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J.P. Devine: Say goodbye to plastic straws
While sharing a cherry vanilla phosphate using paper straws was once romantic, plastic straws have become anathema since one was found jammed up the nose of a sea turtle, writes J.P. Devine.
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Amy Calder: Governor’s Board of Executive Clemency hears litany of life lessons
The 18 cases presented to the pardon board recently were felons’ presentations of life lessons painfully learned, Amy Calder writes.
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Amy Calder: Behind the scenes with police dispatchers
The first “first responders,” the men and women who take the calls, collect vital information that police and firefighters deal with, from whether a threatening spouse is armed or intoxicated to the details of a woman giving birth.