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  • Letter: Elect Sanchez to SAD 51 board

    I am writing to encourage School Administrative District 51 residents to vote for Gigi Sanchez for School Board in the upcoming elections. I know Gigi through youth athletics, specifically girls lacrosse. She is a “roll-your-sleeves-up” person who is generous with her time and talents...

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

  • The Universal Notebook: Pictures of childhood

    One of the prize artifacts of childhood in our family is a photograph of my mother, age 4, standing on the wheel of Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis as it sat on the sands of Old Orchard Beach in July of 1927. Two months before, Lindbergh had made history by making the first n...

    Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
    Monday, May 20, 2013 at 11:00 am
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  • 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

  • Short Relief: Background checks, education, licenses won't curb the 2nd Amendment

    On my way down to New Jersey to pick up my mother for the holidays, I drove Interstate 84 past Newtown, Conn., where there was no joy this past holiday season. Once again, the combination of a high-powered firearm and a mentally ill person produced a bloody massacre. Anyone with an ounce o...

    Halsey Frank • Opinion •
    Monday, February 4, 2013 at 11:10 am
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