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A moderate’s success? For Snowe, it’s ‘tremendous’

by Bill Nemitz June 29, 2014June 29, 2014

Sen. Thad Cochran’s victory over a tea-party challenger in Mississippi bolsters the former Maine senator’s political reform efforts.

Bill Nemitz, Opinion

LePage blames messenger for his own message on Social Security

by Bill Nemitz June 27, 2014June 27, 2014

After lumping the entitlement in with welfare programs, LePage gets a jolt from the third rail of politics – and calls out the Press Herald.

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Bill Nemitz: Gay-rights pioneers earned pride long before parade

by Bill Nemitz June 20, 2014June 19, 2014

It was, Steve Bull recalls, like sitting in a fish bowl. The year was 1973. A handful of students at the University of Maine in Orono had gathered for the first meeting of the Wilde-Stein Club, named after Oscar Wilde and Gertrude Stein in a not-so-subtle nod to gay men and lesbian women who stood […]

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Bill Nemitz: Shakers seek special dispensation on Maine Turnpike signs

June 18, 2014June 17, 2014

The two brown signs directing tourists to their New Gloucester village are doomed under a state decree, and permitted blue signs are costly.

Bill Nemitz, Opinion

Bill Nemitz: Time is now to stand up for ‘illegals’

June 13, 2014June 13, 2014

Here’s a suggestion for all you municipal clerks and welfare officials who are scratching your heads this week all over Maine: When the Department of Health and Human Services orders you in the next day or two to start culling any and all “illegal immigrants” from your General Assistance rolls, think “Spartacus.” As in the […]

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