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Opinion

  • Letter: Union shouldn't control insurance market

    Kudos to the Yarmouth School Department for reaping major savings from a little-known law sponsored in 2011 by the LePage administration (LD 1326). The Forecaster recently reported that Yarmouth “hopes to save about $40,000 this year in health insurance costs.” Future savings could be...

    Opinion •
    Monday, March 18, 2013 at 8:40 am

  • Letter: Commercial St. should be Portland's top priority

    Unlike Edgar Allen Beem ("High and State, it's a 2-way street"), I walk a lot all over the Portland peninsula.

    • Opinion •
    Monday, March 18, 2013 at 8:20 am

  • The Universal Notebook: High and State, it's a 2-way street

    Portland city officials are considering whether to return High Street and State Street, the one-way, up-and-over avenues across the downtown peninsula, to two-way traffic. I remember when they were designated one-way back in 1972. I was just out of college, just married, just started a new...

    Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
    Monday, March 11, 2013 at 12:10 pm

  • Policy Wonk: State of the state? Muddled

    The possibilities for partisan gridlock in Augusta have seldom been greater, but lets begin on a positive note. Gov. Paul LePage is right when he calls for hospital Medicaid debt to be paid. Historically, each year’s Medicaid obligation was paid in full. The LePage administration has...

    Orlando Delogu • Opinion •
    Monday, March 11, 2013 at 12:00 pm

  • Abby's Road: Feeling like a mom

    When I was a new mother, I was asked when I first really “felt like a mom.” I’m not sure if this is a common question for new mothers, or if I was uniquely targeted because those around me wanted to be sure I realized that I was, in fact, a mother. I have spent the past f...

    Abby Diaz • Opinion •
    Monday, March 11, 2013 at 11:40 am

  • Letter: Sequester is death-knell of The Great Society

    March 1 was a watershed date in American history, and the media, markets and people yawned. The contrived deficit war is over and the GOP/tea party won. Conservatives and tea party provocateurs gained their greatest leap toward "small government," aimed for since the administration of Rona...

    • Opinion •
    Monday, March 11, 2013 at 11:20 am

  • Letter: Don't believe the tar-sands advocates

    I'm not surprised Canadian representatives advocating carrying tar-sands oil from Alberta to Portland came here with their dog-and-pony show (...

    • Opinion •
    Monday, March 11, 2013 at 11:10 am

  • Letter: Maine's U.S. senators on the right track

    As our country officially gets hit with the “sequester” spending cuts, which both parties agree are a poor way to address our national debt, I would like to point out that Maine’s politicians are doing a much better job than most at taking these issues seriously. I applaud their...

    • Opinion •
    Monday, March 11, 2013 at 11:00 am

  • Letter: Beem is right about reading with kids

    Children’s literature is a great equalizer, as noted in Edgar Allen Beem’s recent column, "Grampy reads 'Gumpy'". In the true spirit of bipartisanship he lovingly described the power of picture...

    • Opinion •
    Monday, March 11, 2013 at 10:50 am

  • Letter: Portland should recognize its 'Education District'

    I am writing in response to “Portland’s 'Education District' Hopes for Recognition” (Feb. 12). What a splendid idea by Ms. S...

    • Opinion •
    Monday, March 11, 2013 at 10:40 am
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