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: Washington’s game of groans
It’s time for the bevy of patriarchal ancients in Washington who have chosen to follow their leader to move over and make way for the women who seek their seats, writes J.P. Devine.
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J.P. Devine: Is there a doctor in the house?
An injury incurred while washing and rinsing a wine glass leads to revelations about the state of medical practice — and who’s doing the practicing, writes J.P. Devine.
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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: 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: 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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J.P. Devine: An anniversary waltz through Waterville
To put 34 years as residents of Waterville in perspective, J.P. Devine writes about how he and She came back East in 1984.
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Perdido en America
The story of a migrant child’s days in detention reminds us that a child separated from his or her mother never forgets, writes J.P. Devine.
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J.P. Devine: Where are you from?
When you may be down and out or just drifting on the high seas, it’s good to run into someone who is from the same place as you, writes J.P. Devine.
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J.P. Devine MIFF Movie Review: ‘The Garden of the Finzi-Continis’
In the first part of the movie, the horrors to come are distant clouds, but fear hangs in the air, J.P. Devine writes.