While visiting the Colby College Museum of Art’s new Alfond Lunder Family Pavilion in Waterville, I found myself repeatedly comparing Lunder Collection works to pieces at Tom Veilleux Gallery. Veilleux is a private dealer specializing in American works aligned with the Modernist and Aesthetic movement-era works — the very heart of Colby’s Lunder Collection. Veilleux […]
September 2013
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Letters to the editor: Force won’t make Riverview safer
As a former employee at Riverview Psychiatric Center, I state that some of the best health care providers I have ever known work there. The compassion and commitment shown there are truly inspiring. Current difficulties may not lie in the legal status of those served, but likely in the commitment to providing the resources to […]
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Maine Observer: Versatile island neighbors lend needed guidance
From digging French drains to making homemade iced tea, Chebeague residents are happy to share their experience.
Posted inBusiness
Charles Lawton: Instead of entrepreneurship, let’s call it customization
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds! — Bob Marley Looking to the future, Maine sees a rock and two very hard places. Our oldest-in-the-nation population grows older every day. By current projections, our traditional working-age population (18 to 64) will decline by 14 percent by 2030, while our over-65 […]
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Maine Voices: Closed areas a boon as fish fight warming
Stocks in places that are shuttered to fishing tend to grow older and larger and are better able to withstand stress.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: School grading system gets an F: Time for state to try something else
Education officials know what’s wrong, but they need more help to fix the problems.
Posted inOpinion
Commentary: Giving away our privacy
Don’t blame the NSA. Without even realizing it, we’ve let our online privacy slip away gradually.
Posted inBusiness
On the Move
NEW FACES • Phyllis Cohn was hired as the community and public relations specialist for the Maine affiliate of Susan G. Komen. Cohn, of Portland, has more than 15 years of experience in public relations, including eight years at AARP as communications director for the Maine and New York offices. • Anne Hebson and Amy […]
Posted inOpinion
Barney Frank: On immigration, Obama should take a lesson from Clinton
I realize this is not President Obama’s style, but he is entitled to a “Sister Souljah” moment in his current fight for major immigration reform. Sister Souljah is an African-American singer who sang about the desirability of anti-white violence. Speaking at an event in 1992, then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton expressed his sharp disagreement with that […]
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David Rohde: Allow for open debate on Syria
In an extraordinary series of disclosures last week, Obama administration officials said that the United States will launch only cruise missile strikes in Syria. The attacks will last roughly two or three days. And the administration’s goal will be to punish President Bashar al-Assad, not remove him from power. But those clear efforts to placate […]