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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: LePage funding plan supports education

    Edgar Allen Beem claimed Gov. Paul Lepage has shown nothing but contempt for public school teachers, students, administrators and schools (...

    • Opinion •
    Monday, February 4, 2013 at 10:20 am

  • Letter: Obama energy policy will hurt Mainers

    I’m wondering if politicians in Washington, D.C., know what it’s like up here in Maine? Folks are hunkering down for winter, filling their oil tanks and preparing to stay warm for a few months. But it’s not easy, not with the way oil prices have gone in recent years. What...

    • Opinion •
    Monday, February 4, 2013 at 10:00 am

  • Letter: In defense of Falmouth's business climate

    A frequent topic of discussion about Falmouth is whether our community is business friendly. The answer to that question is measured on a number of levels. First, the town staff is extremely responsive and helpful to business requests. In addition, the town has been engaged for some time in a tho...

    • Opinion •
    Monday, February 4, 2013 at 9:40 am

  • Letter: Mental illness, not guns, is the 'real problem'

    Edgar Allen Beem seems to think that taxing guns and ammo will do the job (The Universal Notebook, Jan. 21). Someone ought to tell...

    • Opinion •
    Monday, February 4, 2013 at 9:30 am

  • Letter: Quality education depends on people, not classrooms

    I recently read a Forecaster piece by Edgar Allen Beem in which he raged against the popularity of online courses and what a scourge this trend is on education (

    • Opinion •
    Monday, February 4, 2013 at 8:40 am

  • Letter: Brunswick school spending isn't justified

    The front-page story on Jan. 25 about Brunswick school budgets begins "The school budget has been shrinking every year since 2008 ....” This assertion is incorrect. The facts are in fiscal year 2005, the high point of Brunswick's enrollment (3,372), the budget was $27.6 million. ...

    • Opinion •
    Monday, January 28, 2013 at 12:20 pm

  • Abby's Road: A marriage of opposites

    As I was sitting down to write this, my husband began dancing a gleeful jig around our kitchen. Not because he knew I was going to be occupied for the next hour or so (actually, that may have been part of it), but because he’d had a breakthrough. He knew how he was going to use the e...

    Abby Diaz • Opinion •
    Monday, January 28, 2013 at 12:00 pm

  • The Universal Notebook: Why Maine needs ranked-choice voting

    A recent Public Policy Polling poll suggests that if a three-way race for governor were held today, Gov. Paul LePage, with a solid 37 percent of the vote, would beat any Democratic candidate and independent Eliot Cutler. In a head-to-head race, the poll found that just about any Democrat wins.

    Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
    Monday, January 28, 2013 at 11:40 am
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