We can wait for a disaster like Sandy to force us to improve our infrastructure, or we can do the smart thing and act now.
2012
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Skills gap right issue for Legislature’s focus
Training Mainers for jobs that are already here is the best form of economic development.
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Another View: Police are more likely to save lives than take them
Police have the duty to protect the public and a right to use force to defend themselves.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Gun problem won’t be fixed by psychotherapy
We need better mental health services but not instead of better measures to control guns.
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Savvy Senior: Uncle Sam can take debtor’s benefits
DEAR SAVVY SENIOR: I have some outstanding debts and would like to find out if my Social Security checks can be garnished. What can you tell me? — Old and In debt DEAR OLD: Whether your Social Security benefits are garnishable or not depends on whom you owe. Banks and other financial creditors, for example, […]
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Pull up a chair … or an ottoman
Entertaining for the holiday throngs calls for a creative seating strategy.
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Maine Gardener: From botanical gardens, ideas sprout
Botanical gardens are educational as well as entertaining. You can see plants that are native to a particular location, but you also can see plants that people have brought in that are well adapted to that location. My wife Nancy and I go to botanical gardens whenever we are traveling. Yes, we like to look […]
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Ex-Etiquette: Emotional connection may run too deep
Q: My boyfriend’s ex continues to call him with her emotional issues: “Happy anniversary, it would have been 33 years” and “It’s been four years since my mom passed, I need to talk.” He tells me when she calls him, so that’s not the issue. They are both in the same line of work, and […]
Posted inLife & Culture
Bin there. Done that.
Don’t drown in all that holiday stuff. De-clutter instead, and you’ll start the new year organized.
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Motherlode: Are toys that teach that much better?
Are children whose parents shop primarily at big-box stores and mass-market retailers cut off from the toys most clearly designed to promote creativity and learning? In a Big City column, Ginia Bellafante explores the question of “toy deserts” — areas where “the least-privileged children are choked off from the recreations most explicitly geared toward creativity and […]