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  • Letter: Bickerstaff, Harrington for Falmouth School Board

    Caryn Bickerstaff has been an active volunteer within the Falmouth school community for 10 years; as such she has seen the impact of the many challenges the schools have recently faced. She is a founding member of the Falmouth Music Parents Association and past president. Her commitment to qualit...

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    Monday, May 20, 2013

  • Letter: Falmouth should elect Harrington, Bickerstaff

    We are delighted that Falmouth has two strong candidates for School Board: Clare Harrington and Caryn Bickerstaff. As parents of four Falmouth graduates we continue to have a strong commitment to our excellent schools. Clare and her husband, whose children are currently in the Falmouth sch...

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    Monday, May 20, 2013
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  • Letter: No reason not to have universal health care

    Edgar Allen Beem's recent opinion piece about health insurance struck a nerve. Recent events in my own life have shown me what shaky ground Americans are on when it comes to health care and our ability to pay for it. Recently, a cancer diagnosis led me to major surgery, followed by two kin...

    • Opinion •
    Monday, February 11, 2013 at 8:40 am

  • Letter: 50 gallons of heating oil makes a difference

    Neighbors are visiting elders this week, wading through snow drifts to check the fuel gauge on heating oil tanks. Imagine that apprehensive look in an elder’s eyes when they learn how much oil is left. Next, there is the mental calculation behind those eyes: “Do I buy oil, food or med...

    • Opinion •
    Monday, February 11, 2013 at 8:40 am

  • Letter: Concerned about the tar sands scenario

    By now most of us have heard something about tar sands oil. This oil is composed mostly of clay and sand and, unlike the crude oil we use for heating, needs to be mixed with chemicals and enormous amounts of water so that it can be pumped through pipelines. In that state...

    • Opinion •
    Monday, February 11, 2013 at 8:30 am

  • Letter: Our elderly deserve affordable in-home care

    America’s elderly population has worked hard over the years to live the American dream. These individuals have worked long hours so they could afford a nice home. Most people retire around the age of 65 and the cost of prescriptions and doctors’ visits grow increasingly expensive. Gro...

    • Opinion •
    Monday, February 11, 2013 at 8:20 am

  • Letter: Beem is right for the wrong reasons

    Edgar Allen Beem occasionally supports a position with which I agree, most recently that the winner of a multi-candidate election should be chosen from the top three vote-getters in a run-off election when no one gets over half the vote. His primary reason for this position is that he doesn't lik...

    • Opinion •
    Monday, February 11, 2013 at 8:10 am

  • Letter: If you can't win, change the rules

    I read Edgar Allen Beem's column on ranked-choice voting, and it came as no surprise. If you read his column carefully, here is the reason for RCV: the Democrats lost last time, so they need to change the rules. The rest of the article is just spin. This is no surprise coming from the liberal sid...

    • Opinion •
    Monday, February 11, 2013 at 8:10 am

  • The Universal Notebook: Nothing healthy about health insurance

    Folks on the far-right fringe – tea partiers, libertarians, secessionists, etc. – were in open revolt against Obamacare until the Supreme Court told them what the rest of us already knew: the individual mandate is completely constitutional. While they were complaining that President O...

    Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
    Monday, February 4, 2013 at 12:30 pm

  • The View From Away: Gun control? First, control the rhetoric

    The gun control debate highlights my main deficiency as a lawyer. I did not have a moral objection to learning to talk out of both sides out of my mouth – that is, argue either side of a case. I did not have a problem billing my time by the hour. With that training, any halfway decen...

    Mike Langworthy • Opinion •
    Monday, February 4, 2013 at 11:40 am
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