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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...

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    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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  • Universal Notebook: Open and affirming in 2010

    On the first Sunday of Advent, I was typecast as a skeptic in a little church skit about watching and waiting for the coming birth of Christ. One of my lines, condemning the Black Friday holiday shopping frenzy, was “That’s not a religious celebration. It’s rampant consumerism. ...

    Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
    Monday, January 4, 2010

  • Short Relief: From Cortina to Congress Street

    Several years ago, I was lucky enough to go skiing in Cortina d’Ampezzo. Cortina is a town in the Dolomite Mountains of northern Italy near the Austria border. In addition to the beautiful natural and man-made scenery, the warmth of the Italian people and the good food, one of the things ...

    Halsey Frank • Opinion •
    Monday, January 4, 2010

  • The Universal Notebook: The old ways are rapidly fading

    The velocity of change these days is breathtaking and, for an old media guy entering his seventh decade, rather frightening. My New Year’s resolution for 2010, therefore, is to do everything I can to slow down and resist change. Each week as I carry an armload of old newspapers out t... 1

    Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
    Monday, December 28, 2009

  • Global Matters: Maine's India achievement test

    Back in 2007 I wrote in these pages that India, bolstered by a booming economy and a relentless drive to succeed, would no longer be the butt of jokes caricaturing telemarketers selling things to Americans at suppertime. I suggested that Mainers ought to pay close attention to the voice on the ot...

    Perry B. Newman • Opinion •
    Monday, December 28, 2009

  • Forecaster Forum: Evans and the Duke

    It was late winter, early spring in Portland, a Saturday I think it was, as I remember not being in any hurry to get back to Castine. Evans had been doing well, remission I guess it's called, when a cancer patient is doing well. Of course that's a relative term, as doing well for the rest ...

    Jesse McIntire • Opinion •
    Monday, December 28, 2009

  • Letter: Why the silence from Beem?

    Not a word from Edgar Allen Beem about why there was so many problems getting health care passed – after all, Democrats are in the majority, at least until the next election, and many Democrats started asking question like the Republicans did, about what really is in the Pelosi and Reid mon... 3

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    Friday, December 25, 2009

  • Letter: By any other name ...

    I am appalled at  the "comeback" of the term "Redskins" (Southern Forecaster of Dec. 18, 2009) and the racism of far too many voters in Scarborough. Why not the "spearchuckers" or the "Hebes" or the "wetbacks" or a long list of other terms used to denigrate groups of people in the past? I g...

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    Friday, December 25, 2009

  • Letter: The marriage question in a nutshell

    A short summary of Maine's gay marriage fiasco: 1) A majority of voters motivated by homophobia. 2) "Yes on 1" arguments: silly, coming from a desperate need to create something to cover up the anti-gay bigotry. 3) Concept of a majority vote on majority rights: a travesty.

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    Friday, December 25, 2009
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