CARNEY — Victor H., 67, passed away Wednesday, July 25, Per his wishes, a private celebration of life will be held in August. DIONNE — Lorraine G., of Lewiston, passed away in Portland on Wednesday, July 25. Visitation Fortin/Lewiston, Tuesday, July 31, 6 to 8 p.m. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Wednesday, […]
2018
Posted inLetters, sj-web
Golden the better candidate
I write with the good news that voters have an excellent candidate for Congress in Jared Golden. He stands for all that is dear to Mainers in a time of dispiriting meanness, self-interest and corruption. Bruce Poliquin has hidden and ducked out of opportunities to connect with the public for years; Golden will listen and […]
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Tiffany Bond has my support
I am writing in support of Tiffany Bond, independent, a superlative candidate for the Maine Second District Congressional seat. Her greatest qualification for the position — beyond caring deeply for the people she would serve — is her background as a lawyer. While running her campaign, she takes time to read and publicly analyze bills […]
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Claxton will be best for all Mainers
I write in strong support of Ned Claxton for the Maine Senate. I had the opportunity to work with him for 10 years in a health-care setting. His leadership ability and willingness to hear all sides of a story made him a phenomenal physician, administrator and colleague. Health-care issues, both affordability and access, affect all […]
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Socialism will never be the answer for America
For the current generation, sometimes referred to as millennials, it appears one thing is more seductive than sex — and that’s socialism. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, and 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, winner of a New York Democratic primary, are the old and new faces of socialist America. Their platforms, it appears, hinge on the concept of […]
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The monster that is health care
That thing, more commonly known as health care, has become a monster, and it is running amok down Main Street, America. No person or thing is immune from the clutches of that beast. All that beast desires is nothing short of a person’s birthright. For all intents and purposes, health care in America has become […]
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Prayer a way to help face life’s tribulations
All she asked was that someone pray for her. As relayed on Twitter by the activist Brittany Packnett, the unnamed woman certainly had good reason to seek help, divine or otherwise. She was one of the people held hostage by a gunman last week in an L.A. Trader Joe’s. According to Packnett, her friend was […]
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Maurice R. Ouellette
LANCASTER, N.H. — Maurice R. Ouellette, 92, of Milan, N.H., passed away Thursday July 26, at the Weeks Medical Center in Lancaster, N.H. He was born in Berlin, N.H. on March 17, 1926, the son of Ernest and Ann Marie (Hamel) Ouellette and worked for the AMC in his younger years on Mt. Madison. He entered […]
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U.S. gains reputation as being hostile to the global order
NEW YORK — Listen closely. That sound you heard at Wednesday’s joint press conference between the presidents of the European Commission and the United States was Donald Trump backtracking once again. This has become a familiar routine. It goes something like this: Begin by hurling insults at the other side, some of which have a […]
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Trump is using tariffs to advance a radical free-trade agenda
WASHINGTON — Give President Trump credit. When he chastised NATO allies over their failure to spend adequately on our common defense, his critics said he was endangering the Atlantic alliance. Instead, his tough stance persuaded allies to spend billions more on defense, strengthening NATO instead. Now, Trump is doing the same on trade. At the […]