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PublishedAugust 14, 2011
Maybe we need to follow Egyptians’ tactics
Vegetables and fruit are easy to grow. Instead of paying for health care, why not grow our own food in our own backyards? A garden only needs five to six hours of sunlight. And we get healthy kids, healthy people; no doctors needed. I was glad to see and read Brenda Lachance’s letter (Aug. 2). […]
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PublishedAugust 14, 2011
Unfair water, sewer rates for Hallowell and Augusta
The Greater Augusta Utility District Board of Trustees on Monday will finalize plans to adopt new water and sewer rates this fall. Costs will increase for Augusta and Hallowell residents by 66 percent for fire protection, 21 percent to 79 percent for service charges, 5 percent for public hydrant expenses, 38 percent for sewer services […]
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PublishedAugust 13, 2011
Give all Americans credit cards with no limits
President Barack Obama and Congress cannot figure out how to get the terrible economy going. The solution really is simple, and all the geniuses in Washington haven’t thought of it. The solution: Give every American a never-ending credit limit on their credit cards, to purchase anything we need. It would create millions of jobs. To […]
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PublishedAugust 13, 2011
State bureau earned its award for excellence
I would like to congratulate Betty Lamoreau and her team at the Bureau of General Services for earning the national Excellence in Purchasing Award from the National Purchasing Institute. I had a couple of opportunities to work directly with Lamoreau last winter and always found her to be a professional and dedicated public servant. We […]
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PublishedAugust 13, 2011
After voter fraud, let’s tackle pillow tag removal
I am ecstatic that the state of Maine is spending our tax money to ferret out voter fraud. And, hopefully, when they have found the two people who have committed this heinous crime in the last 100 years, officials then will direct their attention and our money to go after those miscreants who remove and […]
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PublishedAugust 13, 2011
If tea party values followed, U.S. wouldn’t be in mess
So if the “debt deal” passed by Congress and signed into law by the president is such a great deal, will someone please explain how spending $2.1 trillion now, while cutting spending by $1 trillion now and maybe cutting more later will help decrease the debt? I understand if the new committee of 12 does […]
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PublishedAugust 13, 2011
Shame on Nutting for stooping to name-calling
Shame on House Speaker Robert Nutting for calling the good people of his district who disagree with him about same-day voter registration, “the extreme left-wing groups and individuals behind this signature gathering effort.” That is the kind of read-from-the-script political nonsense that has given us a do-nothing Congress in Washington; we don’t need more of […]
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PublishedAugust 13, 2011
Why does U.S. survival rely on private company?
So now America’s credit rating has been lowered from AAA to AA+. So what? Maybe now we will be forced to either stop borrowing so much from foreign countries and/or tighten our belts financially, as so many Americans are now doing. Thanks to the greed of our banks, who with the help of the Republican […]
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PublishedAugust 13, 2011
Broken economic system values only profits
In discussions of Maine’s lackluster job growth we hear a lot about the need to create jobs, but we hear almost nothing about decades of systematic job cuts that created the problem. It should be no surprise that jobs get harder to find. We have a broken economic system that values only shareholder profits. Intent […]
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PublishedAugust 12, 2011
Mudslinging, negativity not the American way
I am disheartened with the constant mudslinging between political parties in Maine throughout our nation. So much negativity and blame placing and ridicule is just embarrassing to see and/or hear. As Americans and human beings, we are supposed to be caring of one another and of our needs and to be patriotic Americans. What I’m […]
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