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PublishedDecember 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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PublishedDecember 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."
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PublishedDecember 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.
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PublishedDecember 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.
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PublishedDecember 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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PublishedDecember 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.
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PublishedDecember 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.
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PublishedDecember 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.
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PublishedDecember 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.
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PublishedDecember 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?
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