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  • Published
    December 31, 2012

    New Year’s resolution for Legislature: Let’s get along and get some work done

    My wife, Birdie, gets appropriately irritated with me when I suggest New Year's resolutions she might want to consider for herself. "Stick to your own," she tells me. So it is with some trepidation that I suggest one resolution for a whole bunch of people ... the 186 incoming members of the 126th Legislature. Here it is: "Let's work together. Republicans, Democrats, Independents, Red Sox fans, Yankees fans -- all of us."

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    December 31, 2012

    As print passeswe mournan old friend

    It is comforting to think of death as a passing rather than an end. In that vein, I prefer to think of Steve Jobs' final words as editorial commentary: "Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow."

  • Published
    December 30, 2012

    New room brings new perspectiveon some old, much-loved furniture

    When my husband, Paul, and I were married in 1986, we didn't buy any new furniture. Our bed was literally his bachelor pad, my mother provided an old dining room table and I toted along the faithful desk that had once belonged to my grandfather.

  • Published
    December 30, 2012

    To solve debt problems, let’s sell Alaska

    That's right. Put the entire state -- from Juneau to Deadhorse, from the Bering Strait to the Beaufort Sea -- on the auction block.

  • Published
    December 29, 2012

    From St. Ronnie’s lips:US must find leadership

    I hate stakeouts, and yet there I was, sitting in a car, keeping an eye on the building across the street and waiting for something new and interesting to happen.

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  • Published
    December 28, 2012

    Obama must compromiseon gun ownership

    In response to the horrific mass murder in Newtown, Conn., President Barack Obama insisted that all of us have an obligation to do what we can to prevent such acts of brutal violence from recurring.

  • Published
    December 27, 2012

    Issues behind shootinggo beyond mental health

    In the wake of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Kennebec Behavioral Health has received a number of calls asking what we can do about it. In reality, we are faced with the same sense of grief, outrage and helplessness that plagues the rest of our society.

  • Published
    December 26, 2012

    Finding answersat My Brother’s Keeper

    That noise you heard this morning was your own sigh of relief. The tensions, impossibly high expectations, and frantic shopping that, sadly, define Christmas for so many, are over. Even if you don't engage in this seasonal frenzy, you can't help but be exhausted by it.

  • Published
    December 24, 2012

    Even without flying cars, the future is here

    It has been 40 years since the last astronauts left the moon. That anniversary, Dec. 14, has put some prominent technologists in a funk.

  • Published
    December 23, 2012

    We don’t need education revolution; just remodel using our new tools

    Happy holidays! So, how do we move beyond schools for the last century to ones appropriate for the 21st?