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The Universal Notebook: The biggest loser

When I went to bed on Election Day I was bummed out because, despite the fact that President Obama and marriage equality had prevailed, I was under the impression that state Sen. Dick Woodbury had been unseated by a former Navy SEAL with the backing of tens of thousands of dollars of out of state...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
Monday, November 12, 2012 at 11:30 am

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

Letter: Brunswick hospital helps educate nurses

I support approval of the pending Certificate of Need application for Parkview Adventist Medical Center to join Central Maine Healthcare.

• Opinion •
Monday, November 12, 2012 at 8:50 am

Lawrence Bernard Caron, 89: often found on golf fairway

BRUNSWICK — Lawrence Bernard Caron, 89, of River Road, died Nov. 3 at his home. He was born in Brunswick May 1, 1923, the son of Elzear Joseph and Henriette Poirier Caron. He graduated from St. John’s Catholic School and attended Brunswick High School.  

Obituaries •
Friday, November 9, 2012

Louise Boucher Dumais, 90

BRUNSWICK — Louise Boucher Dumais, 90, died Oct. 27 at Freeport Place assisted-living home. The daughter of the late Alma (Emma) Dufresne and Frank Boucher, she was born on May 17, 1922, in Brunswick and lived there most of her life.  In 1943, she married Robert Dumais in...

Obituaries •
Friday, November 9, 2012

Colleen Fay Wilbur, 86

BRUNSWICK — Colleen Fay Wilbur, 86, died Nov. 1 at Mid Coast Hospital. Wilbur was born in Harmony on Oct. 10, 1926, a daughter of George and May Gilman Chadbourne. She graduated from Harmony High School in 1946, and married Ernest R. Wilbur in Minot in 1966. Wilbur worked in shoe sho...

Obituaries •
Friday, November 9, 2012
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