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Letter: U.S. health-care system is shameful

Thank you, Edgar Allen Beem, for writing sensibly about the U.S. health-care system. Contrary to those who claim that we have the best health care in the world, in fact we are near the bottom of the heap in nearly every measure, compared to the rest of the countries in the modern industrialized w...

• Opinion •
Monday, February 11, 2013 at 8:50 am

Letter: No reason not to have universal health care

Edgar Allen Beem's recent opinion piece about health insurance struck a nerve. Recent events in my own life have shown me what shaky ground Americans are on when it comes to health care and our ability to pay for it. Recently, a cancer diagnosis led me to major surgery, followed by two kin...

• Opinion •
Monday, February 11, 2013 at 8:40 am

Letter: Concerned about the tar sands scenario

By now most of us have heard something about tar sands oil. This oil is composed mostly of clay and sand and, unlike the crude oil we use for heating, needs to be mixed with chemicals and enormous amounts of water so that it can be pumped through pipelines. In that state...

• Opinion •
Monday, February 11, 2013 at 8:30 am

Letter: Our elderly deserve affordable in-home care

America’s elderly population has worked hard over the years to live the American dream. These individuals have worked long hours so they could afford a nice home. Most people retire around the age of 65 and the cost of prescriptions and doctors’ visits grow increasingly expensive. Gro...

• Opinion •
Monday, February 11, 2013 at 8:20 am

Letter: If you can't win, change the rules

I read Edgar Allen Beem's column on ranked-choice voting, and it came as no surprise. If you read his column carefully, here is the reason for RCV: the Democrats lost last time, so they need to change the rules. The rest of the article is just spin. This is no surprise coming from the liberal sid...

• Opinion •
Monday, February 11, 2013 at 8:10 am

Letter: Beem is right for the wrong reasons

Edgar Allen Beem occasionally supports a position with which I agree, most recently that the winner of a multi-candidate election should be chosen from the top three vote-getters in a run-off election when no one gets over half the vote. His primary reason for this position is that he doesn't lik...

• Opinion •
Monday, February 11, 2013 at 8:10 am

SMCC frustrated by rival CMCC

SMCC's Katryna Gilson has her shot rejected by a CMCC defender during Thursday night's showdown. The Seawolves lost to the top-ranked Mustangs, 61-52, despite 10 points from Gilson and 14 from Alicia Hoyt. SMCC was coming off a 62-52 victory at NHTI. Hoyt had 13 points in that one. The Seawolves ...

Sports •
Saturday, February 9, 2013 at 6:00 pm

Interstate 295 reopens in Cumberland after 19-car pileup causes 4-hour shutdown

CUMBERLAND — It took almost four hours to clean up a 19-car pileup on Interstate 295 Friday morning as snow began to coat the roadway. Maine Public Safety Department spokesman Steve McCausland said the chain-reaction crash started when a car spun out in the southbound lane, just nort...

• News •
Friday, February 8, 2013 at 11:40 am

Anti-bias effort promised after Greely High girls post offensive photo, remarks

CUMBERLAND — Maybe the photo was staged and posted on the Internet without any thought. But its impact has been thought-provoking. The image of two members of the Greely High School girls' basketball team giving a Nazi salute while a third sits cross-legged on the floor flashi...

Alex Lear • News •
Friday, February 8, 2013 at 11:20 am

Kayatta judicial nomination bound for Senate floor vote

CAPE ELIZABETH — The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday endorsed the nomination of attorney William Kayatta to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit, according to a press release from U.S. Sen. Angus King, I-Maine. Kayatta, a civil litigation specialist ...

News •
Thursday, February 7, 2013 at 11:20 am
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