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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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  • The Universal Notebook: Burning questions about the bare necessities

    If folks in China and India and, heaven forbid, equatorial Africa, ever manage to achieve the American standard of living, the level of global pollution and depleted natural resources will be such that we all may have to don survival suits to enjoy the comforts of home. I foresee se...

    Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
    Monday, December 7, 2009 at 3:32 pm

  • Probing Politics: MEMIC & Dirigo: Lessons for the nation from Maine

    This may seem presumptuous, but I believe Maine offers the nation some stark lessons when it comes to insurance reform. In 1991, Maine's workers' compensation insurance market had all but collapsed. Many employers ignored workplace safety while plaintiffs' lawyers and unions were allowe...

    Tony Payne • Opinion •
    Monday, December 7, 2009 at 3:02 pm

  • Letter: SMCC students 'thrilled' to tell their stories

    I would like to thank Randy Billings for his outstanding reporting last week on my immigrant, refugee and international students at Southern Maine Community College. These young men and women are amazing, and they were thrilled to have a chance to tell their stories to a reporter. The article ...

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    Monday, December 7, 2009 at 1:01 pm

  • Letter: Rowe for governor

    I recently received an invitation to become one of 1,000 women "Rowing for Steve." As much as I love to be on the water, this has nothing to do with boating. This has to do with joining a team supporting Steve Rowe's run for governor. The first time I heard Steve Rowe speak he was our at...

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    Monday, December 7, 2009 at 12:55 pm

  • Letter: Right to know is ignored all over

    I read the Editor's Notebook column about public officials in Topsham and South Portland snubbing the public's right to know. I have no doubt that it's true and what's even scarier is that it is happening all across the United States at all levels of government. I contacted the president of the Main...

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    Monday, December 7, 2009 at 12:52 pm

  • Letter: Age works for, not against, equal rights

    I take issue with two of Halsey Frank's assertions ("Short Relief: Don't look now, but the next referendum battle is brewing"). The first is his opinion that given Maine's median age of 40.7 years it is likely that the repeal of the right of same-sex couples to marry was based, in part, on...

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    Monday, December 7, 2009 at 12:15 pm

  • Letter: RSU 1 stance disappoints Bath teacher

    I am a proud Morse High School Shipbuilder and a proud member of a great teachers union in RSU 1. Morse High School is an institution rich in tradition. RSU 1 is a district rich in a tradition of treating teachers fairly and decently. Yes, we've had disagreements with school boards in the past, but...

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    Friday, December 4, 2009

  • Short Relief: Don't look now, but the next referendum battle is brewing

    I spent much of the last Election Day as I often do, working the East End School polling place on Munjoy Hill in Portland. For an off-year election, it was an unusually busy day there, as elsewhere around the state. About 1,600 people voted in person. As in past elections, a significant number of...

    Halsey Frank • Opinion •
    Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at 8:02 am
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