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  • Aircraft carrier idea odd and impractical

    They say a boat is really a hole in the water into which you pour money. Now, multiply that times 1,000 for each foot of a 40-year-old aircraft carrier. A nonprofit group announced last week that it is still in the running to bring the decommissioned USS John F. Kennedy to the Portland harbor...
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  • LaPointe should stay behind bars

    We should have seen it coming. Only months after going to prison for killing two people with his speedboat, boozing boater Robert LaPointe is already trying to shave time off his sentence. The Massachusetts man applied for a program that would allow him to get a job and live at his...
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  • FairPoint's workers now paying the price

    Apologies are in order for FairPoint Communications workers who, it was announced last week, are being forced to accept $30 million in contract concessions from the company.The 3,000 employees are now in the unenviable position of paying the price for being right. The sorry tale ...
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  • Progress seen on sexual abuse, other big issues

    If you've been watching Congress grapple with the major issues of the day, you're probably tempted to pull the plug, sell your house, buy a cabin in Big Ten Township, bar the door and never look back. Talk about discouraging. But it is reassuring to see that the American people can...
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  • Short takes on the week's news

    Jeers, in general, to crooks who take every opportunity to connive and steal. Now, we have to worry about them knocking on our front doors disguised as Census takers. The U.S. Census, which has just begun its national count, has — along with the Better Business Bureau — i...
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