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PublishedAugust 3, 2014
Letter to the editor: Candidates should heed concerns of older voters
If candidates are wondering which issues are of the greatest concern to Maine’s most active voting demographic, a new AARP survey can help. AARP recently surveyed 2000 registered voters in Maine, age 50 and older to see what issues they find most important for candidates to focus on. The results of the survey revealed that […]
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PublishedAugust 3, 2014
Letter to the editor: School standards crucial to bridging worker skills gap
Peter Geiger’s recent guest column on school standards is exactly right (“Maine Voices: Nothing sinister in school standards,” July 27). Enhancing Maine’s current school standards to align with the common math and English standards will help improved educational rigor for our students; honors Maine’s long tradition of local control over curriculum; is an open process […]
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PublishedAugust 3, 2014
Letter to the editor: Increase clean energy’s competitiveness
As a retired energy industry consultant and an ardent foe of CO2 emissions, I found John Richardson’s analysis on tar sands oil to be exemplary (“Tar sands battleground: South Portland,” July 20). It is objective, comprehensive, factually based and fair. Too often the issue of tar sands oil is addressed by opponents on emotional rather […]
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PublishedAugust 3, 2014
Maine Voices: Fight gun violence with stronger laws
Fewer women are killed in states that enact stricter limits on gun ownership by those with a record of domestic violence.
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PublishedAugust 3, 2014
Bowling alleys fight sport’s decline by going upscale
They are offering decor, drinks and menus that evoke nightclubs.
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PublishedAugust 3, 2014
Commentary: College? What’s that?
A comparison of U.S. and Canadian college attendance challenges the conventional wisdom that children of low-income American families give higher education a pass for financial reasons. It could be that such a path just doesn't occur to them.
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PublishedAugust 3, 2014
Agree to Disagree: Maybe the truth doesn’t lie in the bear facts
Mainers will have their say on the issue of baiting in November.
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PublishedAugust 3, 2014
Barney Frank: Wishing we could fix hot spots doesn’t make it so
We must end the continued annual expenditure of tens of billions of dollars a year in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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PublishedAugust 3, 2014
Family’s quest for justice still burns, a half-century later
Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer Michael-Corey Francis Hinton, a Passamaquoddy Indian living and working as a lawyer in Washington, D.C., stands on the spot near the Pleasant Point reservation in eastern Maine where his great-grandfather, Peter Francis, was killed after a confrontation with five white hunters from […]
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PublishedAugust 3, 2014
Liberating workers from email hell
A Facebook founder aims to increase productivity by decreasing reliance on the growing annoyance.
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