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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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  • The Universal Notebook: About that well-regulated militia ...

    Now that the U.S. Senate has made sure there is no chance that Americans will ever get the gun controls we want and need, I’m sure the victorious gunslingers of America won’t mind a little look back at what the Second Amendment was originally all about. A good buddy – an ...

    Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
    Monday, April 22, 2013 at 9:40 am

  • Global Matters: Terror in Boston, and the price of prevention

    As Boston recovers from the brutal attack on the marathon and the city begins to regain its equilibrium , the eyes of the nation and the attention of Congress will soon turn away from the incident itself and pivot to the so-called “root causes” of terror. We’ll stop seein...

    Perry B. Newman • Opinion •
    Monday, April 22, 2013 at 9:30 am

  • Abby's Road: For Boston, a love mash-up

    Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more splendid and yet more gritty. White snows will blanket the budding trees along the Charles, And fall’s leaves will swirl down thine cobble-stoned streets. Sometime too congested the thoroughfares become,...

    Abby Diaz • Opinion •
    Monday, April 22, 2013 at 9:20 am

  • Letter: World is flatter than Delogu believes

    If Orlando Delogu is a policy wonk he should know and have read Thomas L. Friedman’s wonderful, thoughtful, intelligent book, "The World is Flat," published in 2005. Friedman, hardly in anyone's view a right-wing conservative, would perhaps agree with some of the assertions Delogu makes in ...

    • Opinion •
    Monday, April 22, 2013 at 9:00 am

  • The View From Away: Even in Canada, the break room is a battleground

    It’s finally sinking in that I'm in Toronto for a real job, with a workday, coworkers and an office. The people are nice. The office environment is friendly. I’m still getting used to showing up at the same place every day and being on time, but it is almost liberating to have ...

    Mike Langworthy • Opinion •
    Monday, April 15, 2013 at 11:40 am

  • The Universal Notebook: The right-wing attack on Bowdoin College

    So a propaganda organization funded by an ultra-right-wing billionaire has determined that Bowdoin College is too liberal for its tastes. That’s news? It is, according to ultra-right-wing Bowdoin grad and retired Portland Press Herald editor M.D. Harmon, who has been dining ou...

    Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
    Monday, April 15, 2013 at 9:30 am

  • Superintendent's Notebook: Plenty of volunteer opportunities in Portland schools

    Priscilla Krasnow, 86, volunteers nearly every weekday in the fashion marketing class at Portland Arts and Technology High School. The students call her Mama K. If they arrive in a bad mood, she quickly changes that. “Our students love her,” says Tina Mikkelsen, PATHS’ co...

    Emmanuel Caulk • Opinion •
    Monday, April 15, 2013 at 8:50 am

  • Letter: Citizens deserve to be heard in Augusta

    The Legislature used to allow more fairness and less manipulation in their public hearings than they do today. Citizens were asked to leave their name and copies for the committee when testifying, but proponents and opponents were treated fairly as to time allotted. Recently I went to the ...

    • Opinion •
    Monday, April 15, 2013 at 8:40 am
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