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The View From Away: Election 2012 produced some unexpected results

This was my son Bobby’s first presidential election. The first time I voted for president, Richard Nixon soundly trounced the recently deceased George McGovern. By that I mean McGovern passed away recently, not shortly before running for president, although he could hardly have done worse i...

Mike Langworthy • Opinion •
Monday, November 12, 2012 at 11:20 am

Letter: Obama has 'radicalized' the nation

In Maine, Nov. 6 was a good day for blue and identity politics, but said nothing about our big national issues of war versus peace, Wall Street versus Main Street, constitutional rights versus restrictions, democracy versus oligarchy. It said nothing because nothing was said by either candidate f...

• Opinion •
Monday, November 12, 2012 at 9:40 am

Letter: Beem ignores 'nincompoops' who toe the party line

As I read Edgar Allen Beem's column of Nov. 7, I found myself both irritated and disappointed. While I was bothered by the "where ...

• Opinion •
Monday, November 12, 2012 at 9:30 am

Letter: Lawmakers must ignore party ideology

Now that the elections are over, it is my hope that our newly elected and re-elected state and federal representatives will waste no time in focusing on the issues of concern to older Mainers and their families. Issues such as financial and health security are of paramount importance to many of o...

• Opinion •
Monday, November 12, 2012 at 9:20 am

Letter: Frank misses the point about Citizens United

Most people have enough common sense to reject the ideas that corporations are people, and that money is speech, through deductive reasoning. Yet these concepts have been codified into law by our Supreme Court in the oligarchical “Citizens United” ruling. Halsey Frank’s recent

• Opinion •
Monday, November 12, 2012 at 9:00 am

Mid-Coast School Noteboook

Dave Lewis, firefighter instructor at Region Ten Technical High School, earned cider and a donut for having his head shaved by health occupations students Gina Graziano and Miranda Lynch. The shave helped Graziano and Lynch get hands-on experience in personal care skills, a requirement in th...

Community •
Friday, November 9, 2012

Mid-Coast Meetings: Nov. 9-15

Bath

Community •
Friday, November 9, 2012

Suzanne Marie Robshaw, 46

BATH — Suzanne Marie Robshaw, 46, died at Winship Green on Nov. 1 after a long illness.

Obituaries •
Friday, November 9, 2012

Bath Police Beat: Nov. 9

Arrests 10/30 at 8:15 p.m. Russell Trinka, 26, of Kings Arms Road, was arrested on Kings Arms Road by Sgt. Andrew Booth on five warrants. 11/1 at 4 p.m. Corey Newman, 36, of Middle Street, was arrested by Detective David Beauregar...

Police Beat •
Thursday, November 8, 2012

Topsham Police Beat: Nov. 9

Arrests 10/31 at 5:09 p.m. Christopher Gilley, 28, of Pierce Lane, Brunswick, was arrested on Ward Road by Officer Robert Ramsay on a warrant, and also charged with domestic violence assault and obstructing the report of a crime. 11/3 at 4...

Police Beat •
Thursday, November 8, 2012
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