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PublishedDecember 29, 2023
Gordon L. Weil: Supreme Court plays key role on Trump charges
Donald Trump got the Supreme Court he wanted. He will now discover how it will make its way between solid conservatism, political partisanship and the historical opportunity to determine the presidential election, possibly costing him a return to the White House. The Court’s reputation is at stake. This moment recalls the Court having picked the […]
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PublishedDecember 29, 2023
Giving Voice: Spirit of giving
Most of us look forward to the holidays – anticipating warmth and cheer in the company of family and friends, with good food and the fun of giving and receiving. At The Gathering Place, we seek to provide that atmosphere and experience for our guests. As December brings us the shortest days of the year, […]
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PublishedDecember 28, 2023
Danny Tyree: Will you be busted by a ‘noise camera’?
“Just when you think it’s safe to be a jerk on the roadway…” Motorists in many cities have grown accustomed to the likelihood of having their license plate photographed if they exceed the posted speed limit and/or run a red light. (Sadly, other motorists are shocked — shocked, I tell you — every single time […]
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PublishedDecember 28, 2023
LC Van Savage: Mrs. Stanley, I presume?
I recently met a woman via email who had the very good taste to compliment me rather lavishly on a column I wrote. She really, really liked it. Her name is Barbara Stanley, and I applaud her reading skills and of course her great mind. But what interested me even more was her name. The […]
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PublishedDecember 28, 2023
Letter to the editor: The martyring of Trump; Defending Bath Golf Club; Our many international mistakes
The Martyring of Trump Federal and state justice systems are producing a feature film called “The Martyring of Trump.” Our Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows needs to avoid being a main character in this black comedy film.It is vital that the power to determine who appears on the presidential ballot is determined by We […]
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PublishedDecember 27, 2023
Tom Purcell: A win-win New Year’s resolution
Here’s a great New Year’s resolution: get a pet. As we wrap up a very inflationary 2023, pet shelters across the country are at maximum capacity and they don’t have room to house the pets people are turning in. ABC News reports that animals entering shelters began to climb in 2021. During the COVID pandemic, […]
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PublishedDecember 27, 2023
The Maine Idea: Presidential leadership amid war and peace
At year’s end, our thoughts turn to war and peace — too much of the former, not enough of the latter. For 75 years, the United States has been the world’s most important nation, and despite constant predictions of decline, remains so. Its presidents are central to whatever progress toward peace can be made internationally. […]
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PublishedDecember 27, 2023
Book review: A Chamberlain tome you can’t put down
I purchased an amazing new book entitled “On Great Fields, The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain,” by Ronald C. White. The bookstore on the campus of Bowdoin College has a large display of the book, which brought it to my attention. It is an extensive history of Gen. Chamberlain from his […]
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PublishedDecember 27, 2023
Dick Polman: Colorado’s top court read what the Constitution clearly says
Shortly after the Colorado Supreme Court declared in an explosive ruling that Donald Trump can’t appear on the state’s 2024 ballot because he’s an insurrectionist, one of the former president’s flacks fumed in predictable fashion about “George Soros” and “Crooked Joe Biden” and a judicial plot that’s “un-American.” But the Trump campaign’s statement failed to […]
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PublishedDecember 26, 2023
Jase Graves: Haunted by the kids of Christmas past
Since two of my daughters are now in college and one is in high school, Christmas just “hits different”— as those crazy kids (and my not-so-secret, sort-of-but-not-really guilty pleasure, Taylor Swift) say these days. When I was up in the attic just after Thanksgiving, foraging for decorations and wondering how the ceiling hadn’t caved in […]
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