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  • Published
    February 5, 2012

    THEODORA KALIKOW: Culling old clothes, books can inspire change in ideas, beliefs

    Cleaning out is my No. 1 task these days. I'm getting ready to retire and my move out of the President's House at the University of Maine Farmington to camp in Mount Vernon in June.

  • Published
    February 4, 2012

    M.D. HARMON: Obama’s insurance ruling quashes moral concerns about abortion

    After the events of recent days, have Roman Catholics -- or at least the ones who go to Mass regularly and try to live by the historical teachings of their faith -- finally realized that President Barack Obama doesn't care what they or other traditional believers think about him?

  • Published
    February 3, 2012

    DENIS THOET: Welcome to Maine, Sunshine State of the North

    By my count, Maine has more sunny and partly sunny days per year than any other New England state.

  • Published
    February 2, 2012

    COMMENTARY: Young woman is one of many who’s not limited by stereotypes

    Seventeen-year-old Kyla Kolb is busting stereotypes. A senior at Lakewood High in the St. Petersburg, Fla., school's Center for Advanced Technology, she is a computer programming whiz with a 4.2 weighted grade point average.

  • Published
    February 1, 2012

    GEORGE SMITH: Lack of snow puts damper on Vacationland’s draw for tourists

    Mainers have always had a love-hate relationship with tourists. We've made them the centerpiece of our jokes, derided them as people "from away," or worse, and even been subject to advertising urging us to be nicer to them.

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  • Published
    January 31, 2012

    COMMENTARY: If you can afford Super Bowl maybe you should pay more tax

    Just when you think you've heard it all, someone reports that the price of the best seat at the Super Bowl -- row one on the 50-yard line of Indianapolis' Lucas Oil Stadium -- is a cool $17,048.

  • Published
    January 30, 2012

    LePage health care proposalis shortsighted and costly

    The proposal by Gov. Paul LePage to eliminate health care coverage for extremely poor adults is shortsighted, and will result in a significant shift of costs to our communities and hospitals. More importantly, it will lead to increased suffering and shorter lives.

  • Published
    January 29, 2012

    Gingrich helps out Obama

    The most important figure in Tuesday night's State of the Union address wasn't on the House floor. In fact, he hasn't taken a seat in front of the chamber in 13 years.

  • Published
    January 29, 2012

    Obama’s speech was little bit of nothing

    WASHINGTON -- Once upon a time, small ball was not Barack Obama's game. Tuesday, it was the essence of his State of the Union address. The visionary of 2008 -- purveyor of hope and change, healer of the earth, tamer of the rising seas -- offered an hour of little things: tax-code tweaks to encourage this or that kind of behavior (manufacturing being the flavor of the day), little watchdog agencies to round up Wall Street miscreants and Chinese DVD pirates, even a presidential demand "that all students stay in high school until they graduate or turn 18." Under penalty of what? Jail? The self-proclaimed transformer of America is now playing truant officer?

  • Published
    January 29, 2012

    After TV converter ordeal,there’s still nothing to watch

    The slogan on the digital adaptor was a tad misleading. "Meet Your TV's New Best Friend," it jauntily exclaimed.