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PublishedMay 8, 2013
MAINE COMPASS: Maine better than New Zealand in kids’ untreated tooth decay
The Pew Charitable Trust may want to start studying how Maine manages tooth decay in children. Our level of untreated tooth decay for third graders was 14.6 percent in 2011 -- the second lowest in the nation.
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PublishedMay 8, 2013
GEORGE SMITH: Teachers: Most important ingredient in education system
It's time to give teachers a pep talk. Last Thursday, I was the luncheon speaker at the retired teachers annual convention. They wanted to hear about Maine travel, but before I could get to that, it seemed important to let them know they are appreciated.
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PublishedMay 7, 2013
MAINE COMPASS: Horse slaughter bad business for horses, Maine communities
Although horse slaughter plants in the United States were closed in 2007, more than 160,000 horses were sent from the U.S. to cruel deaths in Mexico and Canada last year.
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PublishedMay 6, 2013
MAINE COMPASS: Eroding health insurance reforms would be costly, unproductive
I said at the beginning of this session that one of my top priorities would be protecting Public Law 90, the sweeping health insurance reforms that were passed by the Maine Legislature in 2011.
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PublishedMay 5, 2013
JOHN FRARY: Barter, compromise leading to bipartisan tax code revision
A bipartisan group of 11 leading Maine Republicans and Democrats have devised "An Act to Modernize and Simplify the Tax Code."
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PublishedMay 5, 2013
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: From king of the world to dead in the water
Fate is fickle, power cyclical, and nothing is new under the sun. Especially in Washington, where after every election the losing party is sagely instructed to confess sin, rend garments and rethink its principles lest it go the way of the Whigs. And where the victor is hailed as the new Caesar, facing an open road to domination.
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PublishedMay 4, 2013
M.D HARMON: With Big Brother watching, what is new definition of privacy?
In my wife's craft room, if the TV is turned on, something British is playing -- either "Downton Abbey," reruns of "Upstairs/Downstairs," or a mystery.
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PublishedMay 3, 2013
JOSEPH REISERT: When two sides are this far apart, doing nothing is compromise
Why has the Congress recently found it so hard to accomplish anything? And what can be done about it?
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PublishedMay 2, 2013
COMMENTARY: It’s tough to talk with kids about sex; money is maybe tougher
It's as hard to talk your 20-somethings about money as it is talk to them about sex. Maybe harder.
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PublishedMay 1, 2013
GEORGE SMITH: 59-year search continues for fish and wildlife funding
In the December 1954 Sportsmen's Guide, Commissioner Roland Cobb outlined the desperate financial situation of his Department of Fisheries and Game. He reported that his agency "must curtail our services ... go backward instead of forward in our planned program of fish and game management, or else find new sources of revenue to pick up the slack."
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