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PublishedMarch 23, 2012
JOSEPH REISERT: Education bills would help schools compete for ‘customers’
The Legislature's Joint Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs held hearings this week on a pair of bills that would bring more choice and accountability to Maine's public schools.
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PublishedMarch 22, 2012
MAINE COMPASS: District energy may have a warm future in Central Maine
District energy involves the centralized production of heating and/or cooling services and increasingly includes the generation of electricity as well.
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PublishedMarch 22, 2012
COMMENTARY: 20 lessons from 2012
This primary season has been long -- so long, in fact, that it's easy to forget all the ups and downs and political lessons learned.
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PublishedMarch 21, 2012
COMMENTARY: Who had the worst week in Washington?
Woe to Newt Gingrich. The former House speaker's justification for remaining in the Republican presidential race had been hanging by a thread for the better part of the month, and that string finally snapped last Tuesday night.
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PublishedMarch 21, 2012
COMMENTARY: Snowe’s retirement leaves a vacuum at the ‘sensible center’
Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine, a certainty to win her fourth term in November, stunned the U.S. political world last month by announcing that she was retiring.
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PublishedMarch 21, 2012
MAINE COMPASS: Women need to vote in order to make their voices heard
My grandmother was born in 1891, well before passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution giving women the right to vote.
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PublishedMarch 21, 2012
GEORGE SMITH: GOP chairman is no RINO
Charlie Webster used to be the most conservative Republican I knew. So you can imagine how astonished I am to find out he's now considered by some to be a RINO, a Republican in name only.
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PublishedMarch 21, 2012
EDITORIAL REPLY: Speaker: Strength is service, not mindreading
I never claimed to be a mind reader, as your paper's editorial suggests ("Speaker likely misreads minds of Maine voters," March 16).
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PublishedMarch 20, 2012
COMMENTARY: Who had the worst week in Washington?
Woe to Newt Gingrich.
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PublishedMarch 20, 2012
MIKE TIPPING: Maine border with Canada an arbitrary, nearly invisible line
Even when I spent some time living in Nova Scotia, a good deal of the local political conversation still involved Maine.
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