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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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  • An impassioned, diverse dialogue on wind power

    Feb 08, 2012 12:00 am
    Our online readers responded with vigor to Sunday’s editorial regarding major investments — infrastructure, jobs, consulting services, etc., — the wind industry has made in Maine in the past decade. Most of the response — but not all — was critical of the indu...
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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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  • NFL exercising influence to protect students

    Feb 04, 2012 12:00 am
    Tomorrow evening, as you huddle around the big-screen TV to watch the Pats battle the Giants in Super Bowl XLVI, take a moment to cheer the National Football League for its work to promote legislation to help manage student athlete head injuries. NFL Hall of Famer and former Patriots lineb...
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  • Secrecy offers the ‘gift’ of accusations

    Feb 03, 2012 12:00 am
    Maine State Treasurer Bruce Poliquin is having a Mitt Romney moment. Under fire for placing 10 acres of his 12.3-acre Georgetown property in so-called tree growth, Mr. Poliquin has been reluctant to answer the accusation that — perhaps — he doesn’t qualify for the propert...
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  • School buses: Safest form of student travel

    Feb 02, 2012 12:00 am
    Tuesday afternoon, Franklin County dispatchers called Maine State Police and other emergency responders to every parent’s nightmare: a school bus accident. This one, on the snow-covered Farmington Falls Road, involved a head-on collision with a fully loaded tractor-trailer. Of...
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  • ‘Taxing’ our social duty to Maine people

    Feb 01, 2012 12:00 am
    Gov. Paul LePage, as all governors before him, is duty-bound to manage state spending and duty-bound to promote Mainers’ common well-being. The pending crisis to resolve the $220 million debt in the Department of Health and Human Services’ budget pits these duties against one a...
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  • Taking a stand against bullies

    Jan 29, 2012 12:00 am
    We all have encountered bullies, some more than others. In Dixfield this week, educators at Dirigo Middle School confronted the problem of bullying with an assembly to talk about the harm of name-calling and other forms of harassment. As part of that work, blank posters were hung in...
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  • A noble pledge to 'end' domestic violence

    Jan 28, 2012 12:00 am
    Every governor has a so-called “legacy” issue. It’s that one thing, whether a governor remains or becomes popular during his term, that long outlasts any admiration or the opposite the public may have for its top executive. Cheers to Gov. Paul LePage for making clear what...
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  • U.S. failing to fully enforce existing taxes

    Jan 27, 2012 12:00 am
    As it becomes increasingly difficult to balance the federal budget, it will clearly take a combination of ideas to make ends meet. One obvious solution is to make sure we are collecting the taxes already on the books. Tax evasion on a massive scale has emerged as one of the key comp...
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  • Early warning of fire saves lives

    Jan 25, 2012 12:00 am
    Just after midnight on Monday, four adults and three children escaped from a fire at their apartment building in Waterville. Fire officials credit functioning smoke detectors with saving their...
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  • Ignoring courts: A bad idea that's gaining currency

    Jan 24, 2012 12:00 am
    Terrible ideas seem to have a way of migrating across the border from New Hampshire — we're thinking the legalization of fireworks here — so we can expect this one to show up at some point. Legislators in two states, New Hampshire and Tennessee,
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  • Pipeline project falls victim to election politics

    Jan 22, 2012 12:00 am
    Canadians should know by now that it takes our political system about a year to elect a new president. Until that happens, our federal government’s small capacity for rational decision-making evaporates entirely. All that became painfully apparent last week when the Canadian g...
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  • We have to be able to trust police

    Jan 21, 2012 12:00 am
    Washington County Sheriff Donnie Smith has taken a firm and ethical stand in announcing that he will end his affiliation with the Maine Sheriffs’ Association if Penobscot County Sheriff Glenn Ross continues as the organization’s president. The mission of the nonprofit Maine She...
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  • Chef living high on the hog in obesity crisis

    Jan 20, 2012 12:00 am
    Political scandals? A dime a dozen. What we don’t often see is a culinary/medical/media scandal as outrageous as TV chef Paula Deen’s recent admission that she has had Type 2 diabetes for three years. Family history and genes play a large role in this often debilitating ...
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  • Governor did his best to land Kestrel Aircraft

    Jan 19, 2012 12:00 am
    The philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand has gained new currency among conservatives, libertarians and tea party believers for her unshakable belief in laissez-faire capitalism. "Government 'help' t...
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  • Stop-smoking programs pay quick dividends

    Jan 17, 2012 1:00 am
    We've always known that smoking cessation programs pay their way, but the benefits were always thought to come slowly and over time. Still, employers, insurers and government agencies have all pushed cessation as a way to eventually save money. But a new study says there is only one...
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  • Correction: Adams, Jefferson overseas

    Jan 17, 2012 12:00 am
    John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were architects of the Declaration of Independence, but were overseas when the Constitution was drafted in 1787. The information was incorrect in a Sunday editorial on Page C7.
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  • Founders began the first national health-care plan

    Jan 15, 2012 12:00 am
    As Republican presidential aspirants Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney slug it out in South Carolina, it’s worth remembering that they have been in lock step on at least one issue: the individual insurance mandate in the 2010 health care reform bill. They were both for it before they wer...
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  • LePage right to quickly close ethics loophole

    Jan 14, 2012 12:00 am
    Cheers to Gov. Paul LePage and his quick-acting legal counsel, Dan Billings, in announcing they will propose legislation in the current session to close a loophole in Maine’s ethics laws to provide greater government transparency. The loophole, which shields high-level state official...
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