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  • Wind power: $1 billion and growing

    Feb 05, 2012 12:00 am
    In Washington and Augusta there’s been much debate about energy and energy policy in recent days. Gov. Paul LePage and President Barack Obama — on the very same night — made energy production a significant component of speeches addressing the State of the State and the St...
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Columns & Analysis

  • There is no crying in politics

    Feb 06, 2012 1:24 pm
     It’s an unspoken rule in the presidential playbook. Be firm, show emotion, but don’t cry. Just last month, Candidate Gingrich exhibited it with his denunciation of the media in a debate that became the key to his unexpected South Carolina triumph. Four years ago, ...
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  • One year of verified online comments; success or failure?

    Feb 06, 2012 12:00 am
    The Sun Journal has spurred better online debate, but among fewer voices. What should happen now with its policy toward online comments? In 1964, in New York City, a young woman named Kitty Genovese was murdered. While this sort of tragedy is unfortunately too common, what made he...
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  • Suzanne Grover: Fair is a jewel of Oxford County

    Feb 05, 2012 12:00 am
    The Sun Journal has been generous in its ongoing news coverage about what’s happening with The Big Oxford County Fair. As many people might know, the Oxford Fair is organized and put on each year by the Oxford County Agricultural Society, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that is comprised s...
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  • Richard Bennett: Keeping Maine values in Maine elections

    Feb 05, 2012 12:00 am
    All qualified Maine people should have access to run for office. There are two things that I love about Maine. One is the natural beauty of the state and the enthusiasm Maine people have for enjoying it. The other is the robust culture of civic engagement and the willing participat...
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  • Tax cuts will worsen, not fix budget

    Feb 05, 2012 12:00 am
    If Democrats had proposed spending last year that cost $170 million – say, to meet the 55 percent education funding law, or to keep revenue sharing flowing to towns and cities and boost property tax relief – they’d have been greeted with derision, not only from Republicans, but ...
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