AUGUSTA ( AP) — Gov. Paul LePage readied an ambitious agenda of energy, education and economic issues as Maine lawmakers opened their 2012 election-year session on Wednesday to a State House full of citizen and union lobbyists prepared to have their own say on matters to be decided during the next 3 1/2 months. Lawmakers […]
2012
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Killings rock Navy community
SAN DIEGO ( AP) — The two Navy fighter- jet pilots were in their prime, having made the cut into one of the military’s most competitive programs. Their deaths in a murdersuicide on New Year’s Day has rocked the tight-knit community of Naval aviators as investigators try to find out what happened in the condominium […]
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Dear Abby
DEAR ABBY: I was sure “Emotionally Abused in California’s” letter (Nov. 2) was inspirational, but fictional. The 15-year-old writer felt her mother was unreasonable because of the rules Mom enforced and the chores the teen was required to do. Then I started re-reading my high school diary. There were many parallels between this girl’s complaints […]
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Avoiding the tough questions
Two things have struck me about the Republican presidential candidate debates leading up to the Iowa caucuses. One is how entertaining they were. The other is how disconnected they were from the biggest trends shaping the job market of the 21st century. What if the 2012 campaign were actually about the world in which we’re […]
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Longer school year deserves closer look
One item that wasn’t in Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad’s blueprint for education reform at its unveiling this fall was the amount of time Iowa’s K-12 students spend in school But after the issue kept popping up during town halls and public forums, the governor has formed an Iowa Department of Education task force to study […]
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Job creation myth
To the editor: I would like to point out that when politicians talk about protecting the job creators ( meaning businesses), they are also talking about job destroyers. Businesses hire when the economy is up and demand is high. They lay off and cut back otherwise, when the economy is down. Since they will not […]