A reader finds Monday’s inauguration to be the moment we stopped being a great nation.
2013
Posted inBusiness
Briefcase
Lewiston distillery to close with loss of about 160 jobs LEWISTON – A vodka and rum distillery owned by the maker of Jim Beam bourbon is closing down and eliminating about 160 jobs. Beam Inc. announced Thursday that production at its Lewiston plant will be phased out over the next year and operations moved to […]
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Posted inOpinion
Maine Voices: Tar sands oil in New England: A test of presidential leadership
President Obama must say no to using a pipeline to Maine to transport the highly corrosive substance.
Posted inBusiness
Geithner says U.S. economy to strengthen during 2013
The outgoing Treasury secretary warns Congress against cutting spending too deeply in a budget deal.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Letters to the editor: Cutler run will hand LePage second term
I didn’t vote for Eliot Cutler for governor last time, and I won’t this time, either (“Cutler may take step toward governor run,” Page 1, Jan. 23). He helped move the tea party and Paul LePage into the governor’s office last time around. There’s little I can think of to better help LePage win re-election […]
Posted inLife & Culture, Religion and Values
Pope: Social networking sites key to spreading faith
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI put church leaders on notice Thursday, saying social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter aren’t a virtual world they can ignore, but rather a real world they must engage if they want to spread the faith to the next generation. The 85-year-old Benedict, who tweets in nine languages, […]
Posted inReligion and Values
Reflections: From the mouths of babes we may find more courage as adults
I sit to write, find my breath and tune into my feelings, focusing at the center of my chest, in/out, up/down, dropping my attention from thinking to hearing. Listening inwardly for what to write. My grandson Taylor appears to me. I hear Taylor, TT we call him. Yesterday his mother, my daughter Alisa, found TT […]
Posted inReligion and Values
Colorado bishops weigh church hospital’s case
DENVER – Colorado’s Catholic bishops will review a church hospital’s legal argument that it should not be liable for the death of unborn twins because a fetus is not a person under state law. The arguments were made in papers Englewood-based Catholic Health Initiatives filed in 2010 to persuade a judge to dismiss a wrongful […]
Posted inReligion and Values
Religion Calendar
Saturday Same-sex marriage spiritual celebration, 6 p.m., brief vespers service followed by a “wedding” reception. St. Ansgar Lutheran Church, 515 Woodford St., Portland. RSVP to [email protected]. Sunday “Belonging,” 9 and 11 a.m. services, with guest preacher the Rev. Fulgence Ndagijimana, minister of the First Unitarian Church in Burundi, Africa. Allen Avenue Unitarian Universalist Church, 524 […]
Posted inNews
Judge allows additional DNA testing in Dechaine murder case
The follow-up work – on a shirt worn by the 12-year-old murder victim – is part of Dennis Dechaine’s retrial bid.