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The View From Away: Gun control? First, control the rhetoric

The gun control debate highlights my main deficiency as a lawyer. I did not have a moral objection to learning to talk out of both sides out of my mouth – that is, argue either side of a case. I did not have a problem billing my time by the hour. With that training, any halfway decen...

Mike Langworthy • Opinion •
Monday, February 4, 2013 at 11:40 am

Arts Calendar Feb. 6 - Feb. 19

Greater Portland Books & Authors Wednesday 2/6 Brown Bag Lecture Series: “Life Among Giants,” Bill Roorbach, 12 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Sq., Portland, 871-1700 ext. 723. ...

Lifestyle •
Monday, February 4, 2013 at 11:30 am

Community Calendar Feb. 6 - Feb. 19

Greater Portland Benefits Friday 2/8 Fair Trade Friday Fundraiser. 10 a.m., Karma Fair Trade, 570 Brighton Ave., Portland, 831-4531. Percentage of all purchases go to the International J...

• Community •
Monday, February 4, 2013 at 11:20 am

Short Relief: Background checks, education, licenses won't curb the 2nd Amendment

On my way down to New Jersey to pick up my mother for the holidays, I drove Interstate 84 past Newtown, Conn., where there was no joy this past holiday season. Once again, the combination of a high-powered firearm and a mentally ill person produced a bloody massacre. Anyone with an ounce o...

Halsey Frank • Opinion •
Monday, February 4, 2013 at 11:10 am

Letter: LePage funding plan supports education

Edgar Allen Beem claimed Gov. Paul Lepage has shown nothing but contempt for public school teachers, students, administrators and schools (...

• Opinion •
Monday, February 4, 2013 at 10:20 am

Letter: Obama energy policy will hurt Mainers

I’m wondering if politicians in Washington, D.C., know what it’s like up here in Maine? Folks are hunkering down for winter, filling their oil tanks and preparing to stay warm for a few months. But it’s not easy, not with the way oil prices have gone in recent years. What...

• Opinion •
Monday, February 4, 2013 at 10:00 am

Letter: Mental illness, not guns, is the 'real problem'

Edgar Allen Beem seems to think that taxing guns and ammo will do the job (The Universal Notebook, Jan. 21). Someone ought to tell...

• Opinion •
Monday, February 4, 2013 at 9:30 am

Letter: Quality education depends on people, not classrooms

I recently read a Forecaster piece by Edgar Allen Beem in which he raged against the popularity of online courses and what a scourge this trend is on education (

• Opinion •
Monday, February 4, 2013 at 8:40 am

Evelyn D. Callahan, 96

SOUTH PORTLAND — Evelyn D. Callahan, 96, of South Portland, formerly of Portland, Houlton and New York, died Jan. 19 at South Portland Nursing Home.  Callahan was born in Hodgdon to Ambrose and Lucy Roaix Callahan.  She attended Hodgdon schools and was a graduate ...

Obituaries •
Friday, February 1, 2013

Storm water project to close part of Baxter Blvd. in Portland

PORTLAND — A portion of Baxter Boulevard will be closed for up to eight months starting Wednesday, as the Department of Public Services breaks ground for two underground storm-water conduits designed to reduce sewage overflow into Back Cove. The stretch of the boulevard from Vannah A...

William Hall • News •
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 at 11:10 am
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