March 2012
Austerity: A new Greek tragedy
ATHENS, Greece — Europe declared war on Keynes, and Keynes is winning. In the United States, Republicans lambaste President Barack Obama’s stimulus package as a failure and insist on bonecrunching budget-cutting. If you want to know how well that works, come visit Europe — especially Greece. Yes, Greece needed a wake-up whack and economic reform, […]
Ponziani knows Harpswell
To the editor: I support Ron Ponziani for the office of Harpswell road commissioner. I’ve known him for nearly 60 years. Ronnie is a caring and honest person that gets along with everyone, regardless of their station in life. He’s spent his life in Harpswell and when we were no more than 16, I recall […]
Be my friend
To the editor: My name is Dalton Spencer, and I am a fifth-grader at Adna Elementary School in Washington state. I have chosen the state of Maine as my topic for a large report. In doing my research, I discovered several neat coincidences between Maine and the Adna area. Our Adna Elementary School mascot is […]
Return to glory
To the editor: As one of the Great Generation of World War II veterans and all the people of that generation who won the war by working together on the battlefields and on the homefront, I remember being able to buy five gallons of gasoline for $1. Bring that generation’s spirit and leadership back by […]
Merchants of menace
To the editor: If you’re enjoying the degraded attack rhetoric known as the presidential primaries, then please read no further. In the bits I’ve been unable to avoid, it seems the candidates are trying to outdo each other in malice and are well on their way toward destroying one another, imploding the whole process. Why […]
Honest men
To the editor: Rush Limbaugh should stay with his honest thoughts. He is totally right about the woman who testified before Congress about contraceptives. Newt Gingrich would be my other pick as real honesty. They can’t bluff him. Gov. Paul LePage the only good one since Gov. James Longley. Charles Mesplay, Woolwich [email protected]
Marriage is a right, not a charity
In a local commentary (“Equal rights, yes: Just don’t call it ‘marriage’”) published March 2, Helen Small contends that she is for equal rights for Maine’s gay and lesbian citizens. “Am I for equal rights for gays and lesbians? Of course, I am: Yes, a resounding yes,” she writes. She then spends the rest of […]
Our love-hate relationships with presidents
Does American culture have the capacity to ever again like or even respect the person occupying the White House; not just those that put him or her there but the other half as well? Have we turned into such a partisan population that any win for one side is a total loss for the other? […]
We remember
Marine Cpl. Conner T. Lowry, 24, of Chicago, Ill., died March 1 while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. This incident is under investigation. Two Army soldiers died March 1 in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered from small arms fire during an attack on their base. Killed were Staff Sgt. Jordan L. Bear, […]