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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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  • Global Matters: The French collection

    There are better ways to spend a Sunday afternoon in Paris than making an impromptu visit to the emergency room in a public hospital, but that’s what I did a few weeks ago following an altercation with a chair at a restaurant in the Marais. I really ought to come up with a better sto...

    Perry B. Newman • Opinion •
    Monday, January 28, 2013 at 11:20 am

  • Forecaster Forum: As policy, LePage budget plan is 'fundamentally dishonest'

    I love Yarmouth as a community and Maine as the greatest state in the country. And, I’m sure that residents and community leaders throughout our state feel the same way about their towns and cities. But, in my opinion, local municipalities are under attack. Not from the outside, but ...

    Steve Woods • Opinion •
    Monday, January 28, 2013 at 11:00 am

  • Letter: Marcoux's experience wasn't unique

    I have never seen a stronger, more courageous piece of opinion in your paper than Dana Marcoux sharing his 1970s experience ("'Out' in Maine:...

    • Opinion •
    Monday, January 28, 2013 at 10:20 am

  • Letter: New taxes won't prevent gun violence

    I am writing this in response to Edgar Allen Beem’s most recent column, “It’s time to tax guns, ammo.” Mr. Beem’s diatribe proves that he has lost all common sense and confirms that he is in the group of people that have no clue as to what they are speaking about whe...

    • Opinion •
    Monday, January 28, 2013 at 10:10 am

  • Letter: Who is watching the cable TV monopoly?

    When my TV went dark, I called Time Warner and learned there was a deliberate (unannounced) overnight service interruption for maintenance. I missed the end of my show and wasted time reporting the outage, but when I asked for credit, I was told to call back after the interruption to request cred...

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    Monday, January 28, 2013 at 10:00 am

  • Forecaster Forum: 'Out' in Maine: How people, times change

    Weeks before graduation from my small-town high school in the spring of 1975, I was caught by a state trooper having sex with another man in the woods of Maine. We were minors, exploring our sexuality in the back seat of a Volkswagen bug. The implications surrounding this event changed my ...

    Dana Marcoux • Opinion •
    Monday, January 21, 2013 at 11:50 am

  • The View From Away: Online college education isn't college or education

    A friend recently sent me an article predicting the imminent demise of college as we know it at the hands of the cheaper, more efficient Internet. My friend sees this trend toward online higher education as an opportunity for me to teach in the digital classroom. She may be right. God know...

    Mike Langworthy • Opinion •
    Monday, January 21, 2013 at 11:10 am

  • The Universal Notebook: It's time to tax guns, ammo

    Walking the dog the other day at Twin Brook Recreation Area in Cumberland, I was treated to the incessant bam-bam, bam-bam-bam, bam-bam, bam-bam-bam-bam, bam of someone targeting shooting somewhere off to the west. At least I hope they were just target shooting. You can’t discharge a...

    Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
    Monday, January 21, 2013 at 10:30 am
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