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 […]
Editorials
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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 […]
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Not terrorists, us
With all the daily propaganda from the top down that we need to close our borders, keep immigrants and refugees out because they are terrorists, we are blinded to the real threat. This country – like almost every country in the world – has been attacked by terrorists from without and within. However, they are not the […]
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We need to do better
On Opening Day of deer hunting season Oct. 28, Karen Wrentzel, 34, of Hebron, was killed in a hunting incident while on her own property. She didn’t know it was hunting season. She wasn’t wearing orange or paying attention to her surroundings. After all she was on her own property. We felt horrified at the news […]
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Maine lawmakers add confusion to very simple question on ranked-choice voting
Critics of ranked-choice voting like to say the election tabulation system is too complicated, but they are wrong. It’s really very simple. Voters want to participate in multi-candidate elections without spending more time figuring who was the lesser of two evils than who would do the best job. They brought their complaints to the Legislature, […]
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Editorial: Together we are beautiful
The Advertiser Democrat recently purchased five wreaths to decorate its office. It purchased them from the sidewalk display of wreaths in front of CEBE and Fare Share Cooperative on Main Street in Norway … in order to buy local. The wreaths were made by members of the community who went to one of the many […]