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  • Published
    January 27, 2012

    LePage had better nightthan Obama Tuesday

    On Tuesday night, President Barack Obama and Gov. Paul LePage fulfilled their constitutional duties, LePage to inform the state legislature "on the condition of the state" and Obama, to "give to the Congress information on the state of the union." Although our two executive magistrates addressed their constituents in fulfillment of the same duty, their speeches could hardly have been more different.

  • Published
    January 26, 2012

    If LURC loses, so do Maine’s citizens

    I'm old enough to remember the meaning of the axiom "As Maine goes, so goes the nation." It meant that we had a knack for picking presidents. It also meant, as I was taught in a central Maine grade school, that independent-thinking Mainers prided themselves on using common sense by not always voting the party line.

  • Published
    January 25, 2012

    Renewable energy is a moral imperative

    The wind blows. The tide flows. The sun glows. The forest grows.

  • Published
    January 24, 2012

    Today’s corporate dominance echoes Gilded Age inequality

    In 1888, on the 100th anniversary of Constitutional government in America, President Grover Cleveland delivered to Congress his troubled thoughts on the State of The Union.

  • Published
    January 24, 2012

    Our Union was oncein a similar state

    In 1888, on the 100th anniversary of Constitutional government in America, President Grover Cleveland delivered to Congress his troubled thoughts on the State of The Union.

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  • Published
    January 23, 2012

    Rising cost of medicine reflects increase in technology, skills

    I was cleaning out my father's desk after he died in 1988 when I came across a bill for Blue Cross/Blue Shield health insurance from 1945.

  • Published
    January 22, 2012

    Super PACs using tons of money to pollute our election process

    By the time these words are printed, my friends in South Carolina will no longer, at least for a few months, be bombarded by constant negative ads on TV, radio and the internet and a steady flow of glossy fliers in their mailboxes.

  • Published
    January 22, 2012

    Next target: Right to birth control

    Maybe Siri was being an alarmist. When I asked my BFF, the talking virtual assistant behind my new iPhone 4S, where I could find birth control, she answered, "I didn't find any birth control clinics."

  • Published
    January 22, 2012

    Religious right no longer called to dominate political landscape

    God knows what has become of the religious right.

  • Published
    January 22, 2012

    Fighting Romney, rest of GOP adopts Dems’ class-war strategy

    "Are you better off today than you were $4 trillion ago?" -- Former presidential candidate Rick Perry