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PublishedApril 25, 2013
All Mainers shortchanged by state’s hiring, salary freezes
One way or another, we are all Maine taxpayers, whether we're buying a roll of paper towels or filing our returns every April. Those tax dollars pay the salaries of our bridge inspectors, forest rangers, state troopers, game wardens, child protective service workers, arson investigators, the people who provide us with courts where we seek justice and even the people who make sure that our food and water are safe.
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PublishedApril 24, 2013
Smart laws can limit damage firearms do in the wrong hands
Gabrielle Giffords passed me on a Washington, D.C., sidewalk last week, her husband, Mark, holding her hand, slightly ahead, directing her along. Her haunting grin and distant gaze stuck with me.
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PublishedApril 23, 2013
Volunteer lawyers will bring expertise to libraries on Law Day
Local lawyers will visit 40 libraries across Maine on May 1, Maine Law Day, to speak with library patrons about the challenges an individual faces when confronting a legal problem.
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PublishedApril 22, 2013
Colby grad returned home to Boston neighborhood defiantly
Julia Bruss is 23 years old, a Harvard graduate student and because she is young and very smart, she figured out how to best retaliate against whoever bombed her neighborhood.
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PublishedApril 22, 2013
Charter school funding creates system of winners, losers
We try to teach our children to be fair and kind from an early age. My preschool-age son talks about such lessons each day. My first-grade daughter recently brought home a kindness award for her willingness to help others without being asked.
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PublishedApril 21, 2013
Obama’s wavering use of word ‘terrorism’ is telling
WASHINGTON -- Terrorism is speech -- speech that gathers its audience by killing innocents as theatrically as possible.
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PublishedApril 21, 2013
Senior Republicans kowtow to lying Tail-gunner Ted
WASHINGTON -- Is there nobody who can tell Ted Cruz to shut up?
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PublishedApril 21, 2013
Wit, wisdom of Will Rogers still apply today
Things are mighty heated these days. Tempers are flaring and minds are closed. Here's the solution: the wit and wisdom of Will Rogers.
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PublishedApril 21, 2013
Food, food everywhere and not a morsel to eat
I heard a news story recently about a new item at Taco Bell -- the Cool Ranch Doritos taco.
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PublishedApril 21, 2013
More seniors want to keepworking — and need to
The let's-cut-entitlements crowd say what's wrong with America is that seniors are living too high off the hog. With the cost of medical care still rising (though not as fast as it used to), the government is shelling out many more dollars per geezer (DPG) than it is per youngster (DPY). The solution, we're told, is to bring down DPG so we can boost DPY.
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