Obama’s campaign is trying to use the weight of his opponents’ rhetoric against them. Like martial arts or wrestling, except with words.
March 2012
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Landlord cleared in Lewiston boy’s lead poisoning
A lawyer for the boy’s parents argued that the apartment’s owners should have replaced windows that created dust that contained lead paint. They were asking for $11 million.
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Yes, that’s snow. Turnpike reduces speed limit.
The Maine Turnpike Authority reduces the speed limit to 45 mph between Exit 53 in West Falmouth and Exit 109 in Augusta.
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STORM REPORTS – Scarborough students take a lesson outside the classroom
SCARBOROUGH – Oftentimes the most important lessons do not involve a lecture or a test. These lessons come in classrooms that do not have four walls and are not given by a single teacher. For a group of 11 Scarborough High School students, the last week and a half has been one of those lessons, […]
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STORM REPORTS – Scarborough students take a lesson outside the classroom
SCARBOROUGH – Oftentimes the most important lessons do not involve a lecture or a test. These lessons come in classrooms that do not have four walls and are not given by a single teacher. For a group of 11 Scarborough High School students, the last week and a half has been one of those lessons, […]
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STORM REPORTS – Scarborough students take a lesson outside the classroom
SCARBOROUGH – Oftentimes the most important lessons do not involve a lecture or a test. These lessons come in classrooms that do not have four walls and are not given by a single teacher. For a group of 11 Scarborough High School students, the last week and a half has been one of those lessons, […]
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EDITORIAL – It's enough to make you sick
If you’re not angry, the saying goes, then you are not paying attention. The anger was swift and overwhelming earlier this month when the news spread that the U.S. Department of Agriculture was filling school lunches with “pink slime.” As social media spread disgust for the product – a low-cost filler for ground beef made […]
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EDITORIAL – It's enough to make you sick
If you’re not angry, the saying goes, then you are not paying attention. The anger was swift and overwhelming earlier this month when the news spread that the U.S. Department of Agriculture was filling school lunches with “pink slime.” As social media spread disgust for the product – a low-cost filler for ground beef made […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Current, Lakes Region Weekly
QUINN'S CORNER – Courtside fouls
Among democratic world governments, the American system is unique. Nowhere else is supreme political power vested in judges and courts. Everywhere else, elective/political bodies are the ultimate source of laws. In fact, the idea that courts may overrule the Legislature was not part of the original American design – it simply became fixed through custom. […]
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CMP’s Saco Bay power upgrade goes online today
The upgrade is to increase capacity and to improve reliability for the electric grid in the Saco Bay region.