It dashes expectations that the independent gubernatorial candidate can count on merit-based support. He’d be better off running as a Democrat.
2014
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North Cairn: The ice manacle cometh – and stayeth too long.
It’s the miracle of ice that pulls me down. Not down in the literal sense, or in psychological terms, but down out of my thinking brain into a childlike state of awe. I say “down,” because I still believe the mind is a lofty achievement of evolution in our species, complex and ambiguous, as full […]
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Bob Humphrey: Duck season isn’t duck soup
Maine’s sea duck season runs through the end of January with some of the best gunning often occuring late in the season. But it’s not a sport for the feint of heart. Late-season eider hunting can be fraught with problems and perils, as I can well attest. There was one particular day when the mercury […]
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Maine Observer: Coming clean about our spiritual nature
Long-lost letter reminds author of the importance of acknowledging the other dimension in our lives.
Posted inOpinion
Air-pollution solution could be as easy as funding woodsheds
The wood you put in a wood stove needs to be dry. In that respect, many of us are all wet.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Letter to the editor: Oil sands pipeline a dangerous idea for all
About five years ago, China bought at least two oil sands mines for billions in Alberta. Their problem has been getting the product back to China. The shortest route would be to go west, but Canada, which has vast experience in handling this toxic substance, refused to issue a permit for a pipeline through the […]
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Letter to the editor: Hunt for Maine humorists needn’t come up empty
In response to Susan Cook’s excellent Maine Voices column (“The not-so-funny thing about Maine humorists? They are hard to find,” Dec. 26), I suggest we all need to offset the crazy politics of Maine, the nation and world, with a few laughs. For those who remember him, the untimely death of Maine humorist Marshall Dodge […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Letter to the editor: Diatribe about Obamacare touches on women’s issue
Wow, that was some diatribe that letter writer Ralph Ginorio wrote in Dec. 29 Telegram about health care reform, including his denouncement of all Democrats who supported it (“Supporters of Obamacare should be voted out of office,” Dec. 29). He complained that “we have lost control over the most intimate and personal of our choices: […]
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Letter to the editor: Free trade agreement a bad deal in all respects
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a massive free trade agreement that would have profound impacts on non-trade issues such as the safety of our food, offshoring American jobs, the cost of medicine, financial regulations, the environment, and the global race to the bottom. I don’t think that anything good could come out of a trade deal […]
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Letter to the editor: Couple duped by family acknowledges generosity
My husband, Cedric, and I would like to thank everyone for the love, thoughts and generous donations to our family after news of our plight appeared in the Portland Press Herald (“Betrayed by blood,” Nov. 10). Never did we expect so much attention and generosity, and we feel overwhelmed with gratitude. We will now be […]