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  • Turning back the clock on social care

    Feb 09, 2012 12:00 am
    On Tuesday, Gov. Paul LePage urged Republican lawmakers to wield their majority clout and pass his budget proposal, forcing deep and painful cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services to meet a $220 million projected shortfall. Working under that pressure, early on Wednesday membe...
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Columns & Analysis

  • Leonard Pitts: Private faith versus public faith

    Feb 09, 2012 12:00 am
    Really? Seriously? In the history of pro sports, men have done all sorts of things to commemorate their feats on the field or the court. They have flopped like seals, walked like gorillas, head-butted like bighorn sheep. They have high-fived, low-fived, dog-piled, chest-bumped, wept, kisse...
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  • Cal Thomas: Obama misunderstands purpose of charity

    Feb 08, 2012 12:00 am
    For 60 years the National Prayer Breakfast has been a nonpolitical event where speakers put aside their earthly biases and focus on a higher authority. Last Thursday, President Obama departed from that tradition to claim the endorsement of Jesus for raising taxes. It beat the endorsement of Mitt ...
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  • Street Talk: I want you! To fill in on the police beat

    Feb 08, 2012 12:00 am
    So, you want to be a police beat reporter. Who can blame you? It's good work if you can find it. Builds character and occasionally ulcers. Imagine: Working the late shift so that your day begins when most people are going to bed. It's a shift that will make you a stranger to prime-time tel...
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  • 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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