By embracing Southern-style conservatism, the party is all but extinct in the region of its birth.
2012
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Letters to the editor: Law key to snowmobile safety
A reader asks why municipalities and clubs get state funds for trail maintenance if there are no “meaningfully enforceable” state trail safety regulations.
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Posted inOpinion
Dan Demeritt: Hospital debt, business climate, and a frosty governor to boot
LePage isn’t going to make any political hay by refusing to meet with Democratic legislators.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Another View: Collins right to protect small business from higher taxes
Some people might look rich when they report their company’s profits on an individual return.
Posted inOpinion
Maine Voices: Beach ruling will make access rocky issue
Allowing the public access to private property on the basis of longstanding practice undermines landowners’ rights.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Maine should revive police shooting panel bill
The 2009 compromise is not delivering the kind of oversight its backers promised.
Posted inOpinion
Maine Observer: Circus’s approach as lively as its performance
Watching wild animals, clowns and elephants make their way from the train station to the Big Top left a young boy rapt.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Lewiston mayor should fight poverty, not blame the poor
Lewiston Mayor Robert Macdonald has an unusual approach to public service. Last summer, he insulted a large number of his constituents by telling a reporter that immigrants should abandon their native culture or get out. Last week, he decided to insult even more Lewiston residents, claiming that the schools were full of welfare cheats from […]
Posted inBusiness
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Tuesday “Writing A Business Plan: Why you need one and how to profit from it,” 2 to 5 p.m., at SCORE Offices, 100 Middle St., Portland. Cost is $35 with online registration. Go to www.scoremaine.com or call 772-1147 weekday mornings. “Safe holiday spending and consumer law issues, 6 to 7 p.m., a free live presentation […]
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Ex-Etiquette: When child of divorce grows up, choice is his
Q: My 19-year-old son went away to college. Prior to his going away I had equal custody with his dad. As he got older he always told me he didn’t want to spend so much time at his dad’s, but if he attempted to tell his father, his father made him feel very guilty about […]