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  • The Universal Notebook: Is there hope for Obama?

    Republicans tend to think that all Democrats love President Barack Obama and follow him blindly into the hopeful future. Not so. Especially not now. When then-Sen. Obama first announced that he was running for the presidency, my initial reaction was that he lacked the essential expe...

    Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
    Monday, June 17, 2013 at 11:10 am

  • Abby's Road: The challenges of gift giving

    I like to give gifts that can be measured calorically. In my book, you haven’t really said thank you, or Happy Birthday, or sorry about your appendix, if you haven’t handed over a bottle of wine, or a cake made of cookies, or the gluten-free brownies you doubt are at all enjoyable.

    Abby Diaz • Opinion •
    Monday, June 17, 2013 at 11:00 am
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  • Letter: Freeport needs athletic fields

    Freeport is in desperate need of playing fields. We have only three full-size fields for all of the recreational, club and school teams in the fall and spring. The surrounding towns have, at the least, seven fields available for a similar number of teams. Often in Freeport up to four teams are si...

    0 • Opinion •
    Monday, October 26, 2009 at 12:20 pm

  • Letter: Reward Snowe's independence

    Sen. Olympia Snowe did something pretty extraordinary: she voted for a bill on its merits, after careful consideration, because she saw a serious problem that needed to be dealt with. Our senator bucked the urge to leverage political advantage, and voted for the Finance Committee bill on health care...

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    Monday, October 26, 2009 at 12:10 pm

  • Letter: Beem misunderstands 'marriage'

    The problem with Edgar Allen Beem's argument in "The Bible is not the law of the land" is in the second sentence. He "assumes" that opposition to same-sex marriage is biblical in nature and related to homosexuality. It is not. This is a straw man he has constructed in order to kn... 3

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    Monday, October 26, 2009 at 12:10 pm

  • Letter: Care to vote for South Portland dog ban

    I think members of the SoPo Dog group are very selfish about Willard Beach. They care only about their own and their dogs' social lives. They don't care about all of the people who have been bitten by dogs. They don't care about the 82-year-old woman who was knocked down by a dog. S... 2

    0 • Opinion •
    Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 11:10 am

  • Letter: Pine Point decision colors vote

    I would like to ask the Scarborough Town Council to please stop the process of closing the end of the Pine Point Road. I understand the deeds have not been finalized. So many people depend on that road to view the shore. I use it every day and many other seniors do. There must be a way to continue...

    0 • Opinion •
    Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 10:20 am

  • Letter: Vote for Holbrook, Rancourt in Scarborough

    I will be voting for Jessica Holbrook and Carol Rancourt for Scarborough Town Council and encourage other people to. Jessica Holbrook will be open-minded and respectful of citizens. She will not be easily influenced or controlled by others on the council who are more concerned with power than maki...

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    Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 10:10 am

  • Letter: Willard Beach belongs to everyone

    Where I grew up in Mid-Coast Maine, cars would sometimes turn off the road, cross our hay field and drop over the hill toward the cove. Other people parked at the old logging road and vanished into the woods. Clam diggers. Worm diggers. Deer hunters. On paper the land belonged to my parents. By trad...

    0 • Opinion •
    Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 10:00 am

  • Letter: Don't deny access to Willard Beach

    Why should young families in South Portland be denied the joy of sharing the ocean and beach with their children and dogs for a few hours a day? Why should seniors and their beloved pets have to lose this wonderful way to be together, strolling the beach and exercising? Why should anyone regardle...

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    Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 10:00 am
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