JOSEPH REISERT: We don’t make ‘the call’ to brag about perfect Maine summer days

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Published
August 12, 2011

JOSEPH REISERT: We don’t make ‘the call’ to brag about perfect Maine summer days

If you follow the national weather, you know that the Sunbelt has been suffering through a brutally hot summer. In parts of Texas, it's been hotter than 100 degrees almost every day, and even up into the Great Plains, they've regularly endured three-digit temperatures.
Published
August 11, 2011

MIKE TIPPING: Blogs, LePage and the future of Maine media

Gov. Paul LePage doesn't like the media much.
Published
August 10, 2011

GEORGE SMITH: Excellent customer service defines most Maine businesses

As Linda and I have traveled the state working on our new travel column, published in this newspaper every Sunday, we've been impressed with the high level of customer service in the tourism industry, from the largest hotels to small bread and breakfasts and from Portland's high-end restaurants to inland community cafes.
Published
August 9, 2011

COMMENTARY: When post office closes, town loses more than place to buy stamps

There is no hospital in my mother's home town. There's not a gas station, a bank, a restaurant, a hardware store or dime store, either.
Published
August 8, 2011

MAINE COMPASS: A story about what tax cuts mean to middle-income, rich families

"Cut my taxes," seems to be the cry. And it's been disastrous for the middle class.

Published
August 7, 2011

LIZ SOARES: When we reach ‘that age,’ it’s just ‘one thing after another’

When a friend posted on Facebook that he was having trouble with "floaters" (those pesky spots that appear in some people's line of vision) one respondent quipped that they both apparently had reached the age where "it's always something."
Published
August 7, 2011

MAINE COMPASS: Ruin of salmon runs took a long time; recovery will, too

All of Maine's rivers were once the home of vast schools of Atlantic salmon returning from the ocean to reproduce. It has been estimated that in the Kennebec River alone as many as 70,000 Atlantic salmon returned annually.
Published
August 7, 2011

MAINE COMPASS: Federal employees make a difference for US

It has become politically convenient to call for cuts to federal agency budgets and steep reductions in the numbers of federal employees.
Published
August 7, 2011

COMMENTARY: We need libraries most during recessions

Public libraries face deep cuts in budget, staff and hours of operation as states and municipalities struggle with the fiscal consequences of a recession that is reluctant to loosen its grip. We conducted federally funded national surveys of public-library use between 2004 and 2008, which we updated in 2010, to establish the consequences of recessions.
Published
August 7, 2011

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: National solvency possible in 3 months, in 3 stages

Conventional wisdom holds that the congressional super-committee established by the debt-ceiling deal to propose further deficit reduction will go nowhere.