Wherever you find yourself this election season, try to focus on common local goals.
Editorials
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Our View: Hey, Legislature, leave those cats alone
A proposal to include domestic felines in Maine’s animal trespass law is ruffling feathers – and rightly so.
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Firefighters work at risk — for us. Every single day
Farmington Fire Chief Terry Bell Deputy Chief S. Clyde Ross Capt. Scott Baxter Capt. TD Hardy Firefighter Ted Baxter Firefighter Joe Hastings LEAP maintenance supervisor Larry Lord And, of course, Capt. Mike Bell. On Monday, each of these men went to work doing what they love, in a community they dearly love. Each of them […]
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Our View: A city’s plan to turnaround a neighborhood
Lewiston is taking on crushing poverty, and other Maine communities should take notice.
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Watchdog press bites back to protect access
Maine’s State House Facilities Committee, which oversees operation of the State House complex, voted Wednesday to recommend that the doors to the State House be locked and inaccessible to the press after hours, unless a scheduled meeting is underway or unless a reporter phones to request special permission to enter. The explanation was that public […]
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Destroying ourselves
This has to stop. Hate speech, cloaking itself in Free Speech. Calls to “arms” against each other. And then the “arms” become real. Pipe bombs. Shootings. Are we a perfect society? Of course not. Are we populated with negative thoughts against others? Yes. It is part of the human condition when a lack of knowledge […]
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Listen!
This nation should be proud of its children. Especially those children from Parkland, Florida. For the first time in decades those with power are waking up to the scourge in America that exists nowhere else. They are hearing the voices of our children. And they are listening. Americans are always outraged after a mass shooting, […]
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It’s March not December
Once again, as spring creeps toward us, we are still seeing browning, dilapidated Christmas decorations in area towns. It is March people! Brown wreaths with scraggly bows, drooping window box displays, browning garlands sloppily clinging to fences simply say: “We don’t care.” As Easter quickly approaches could we care enough to take down Christmas? Please?
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Gallant needs to step down … now
Mainers have gotten used to national attention of the less complimentary kind since electing Paul LePage to be governor. However, now, it can thank our Oxford County sheriff for making us the focus once again of national attention and the butt of lewd jokes. As the Washington Post reported: “County investigates Maine sheriff who sent […]
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Be thankful
Many may question in this tumultuous period what there is to be thankful for. There is much. Be thankful for the “wake-up” call to set aside decades-long apathy. Be thankful for living in a country where we can dissent, disagree and speak out. Be thankful we live in a country, community where we are enriched […]