Thumbs Up — For all to see Adolescents acting up is a good thing — when it involves scores of student thespians and crews channeling their energy and creativity into theater productions such as those that will be open to the public this Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Like its more publicized annual basketball tourney, the […]
March 2012
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Persecuting truth’s messengers
WikiLeaks, the whistle-blower website, has again published a massive trove of documents, this time from a private intelligence firm known as Stratfor. The source of the leak was the hacker group “Anonymous,” which took credit for obtaining more than 5 million emails from Stratfor’s servers. Anonymous obtained the material on Dec. 24, 2011, and provided […]
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“I tell people, ‘The last time I ran, I wasn’t the spoiler, I was the winner.’” — Former Gov. Angus King, on whether his running for a U.S. Senate seat in November would split moderate and liberal voting constituencies.
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Title chase
To the editor: On or about Jan. 25, we received a letter from the Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV). The letter was quite vague but requested that we send in the title for a vehicle we received from my wife’s brother. Of course, the vehicle was already registered by us in our name through BMV. […]
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No need to vote again
To the editor: Here we go again about the gay marriage issue. I don’t know why we have to keep voting for this. It isn’t right. God made man and woman for they could bear children. If a man and man could have a baby naturally like a man and a woman, then maybe it […]
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GOP hopefuls sprint to Super Tuesday, with tight Ohio race
CANTON, Ohio (AP) — The stakes enormous, Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum were making last- minute appeals to woo Ohioans in a Rust Belt state where polls show a neck-and-neck race just one day before the Super Tuesday primary. Ten states across all regions of the country will hold GOP nominating contests […]
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Obama says force an option against Iran
WASHINGTON ( AP) — President Barack Obama says he doesn’t want war but insists he would attack Iran if that was the only option left to stop that nation from getting a nuclear weapon. “Loose talk of war” only plays into Iran’s hands, Obama said Sunday. Today, he will try to persuade Israeli Prime Minister […]
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International observers: ‘Serious problems’ in Russian election
MOSCOW (AP) — The head of the major international election observer mission in Russia says there were “serious problems” in the vote that returned Vladimir Putin to the presidency. Tonino Picula said in a statement today that “there was no real competition, and abuse of government resources ensured that the ultimate winner of the election […]
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25 police killed in western Iraq shooting spree
BAGHDAD — A gang of gunmen disguised in military-style uniforms and carrying forged arrest warrants killed 25 police today, then hoisted the battle flag of al- Qaida in a carefully planned early morning shooting spree in western Iraq, officials said. The killings in Haditha highlight al-Qaida’s success in regaining a foothold in an area they once […]
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Magnitude-4.0 quake shakes San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Some people in the San Francisco Bay area were awakened by an earthquake, though there have been no damage reports. A U.S. Geological Survey computer-generated report says the magnitude-4.0 quake struck at 5:33 a.m. today and was centered eight miles north of San Francisco in the El Cerrito area. Bay Area […]