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MaineDOT interstate investment should not neglect speed | Editorial
A nervous public has been reassured that $1 million in new traffic cameras will not be used to crack down on speeding. Why not?
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Editorial: ‘And it came to pass…’
The Penobscot Times offers its annual timeless message for the holiday season.
Posted inOur View
Our View: Do not create an unfair barrier to public access
On Tuesday, a working group of the municipal officials presented the Legislature’s Appropriations Committee with a handful of recommendations, including vastly increasing the cost for public access to documents under Maine’s Freedom of Access Act. A very similar proposal came before the state’s Right to Know Advisory Committee and then the Judiciary Committee last year […]
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Our View: No place for politics in appeals process
Last April, when allegations that Gov. Paul LePage had injected himself into Maine’s unemployment compensation appeal process surfaced, LePage’s office called the allegations politically motivated attacks meant to distract the public from more important issues. It was, as we said at the time, a predictable shift-the-blame response from his spokespeople. Thursday, after the U.S. Department […]
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Giant blob? Who can resist such a story?
It’s really difficult for hardened newspaper reporters, like our own Mark LaFlamme, to ignore certain stories. Like those involving blobs. Or anything that happens in a subterranean urban cavern. Or bizarre things that happen to people while seated on toilets. And if a single story contains all of those items, and if it occurs in such […]
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Editorial was misquoted in response
Responding to a Sun Journal editorial Sunday, four Maine legislators quoted a Sun Journal editorial several times, but once in error. The editorial in question never said the expansion of Medicaid in Maine would be funded by “free money,” as reported by Sen. Jim Hamper and Reps. Richard Malaby, Deb Sanderson and Heather Sirocki. The expansion […]