Ever heard of the Childhood Adverse Experience (ACE) test? I hadn’t until I had a meeting with Jonathan Sahrbeck, who’s running for reelection as the Cumberland County District Attorney. I’d met with Jonathan because he impressed me at a forum, and I’d seen several “Reelect Sahrbeck for District Attorney” signs around town. Jonathan urged me […]
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Carl Golden: It’s inflation, stupid
When the draft Supreme Court opinion overturning the constitutional right to an abortion was leaked to the media last month, it tore through Washington, D.C. with the force of a category five hurricane. The draft set off a mad scramble to pronounce the dynamic of the congressional midterm election had been irrevocably altered and the […]
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Tom Purcell: Growing up in a world of childhood worries
The only worry I had was that Old Man Miller might be hiding out behind the shed trying to catch us running through his garden when we played “Tag” in our back yards. If you grew up in the ‘70s in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, you know exactly what I’m talking about. Our childhood was […]
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Douglas Rooks: Land conservation not the be-all and end-all
Last week, we looked at the formidable obstacles to major building projects in Maine – the groundswell of opposition rising whenever any industrial, utility, or transportation project is proposed. Searsport has had industrial development for over a century, after the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad built a pier for transshipping cargo at Mack Point in 1909. […]
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The Conversation: Most people support abortion staying legal, but that may not matter in making law
THE CONVERSATION — The Supreme Court is set to soon rule on the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health case, nearly one month after a leaked draft majority opinion showed the court might uphold a Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Ruling to uphold this ban could undo women’s constitutional right to abortion, guaranteed by […]
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Christine Flowers: The Supreme Court rules against humanity
I’ve been in favor of the death penalty since I first knew what it was. I suppose it has something to do with my sense of justice: if you take a life, which is really the only time the death penalty is imposed, you owe a life. That also conflicts somewhat with my Catholic upbringing […]
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Letters: Topsham books appropriate, joyful; re-elect Sahrbeck for Cumberland County District Attorney
Topsham books appropriate, joyful On May 23, The Times Record reported that “some parents are questioning” whether several books included in MSAD 75’s Sexual Abuse Curriculum for elementary school students “are appropriate” (“Books that are part of sexual violence curriculum for young students worry some Topsham-area parents”). I attended the School Board meeting on May […]
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Elwood Watson: America desperately needs a U-turn on guns
We’re here again. From Columbine, Colo. (1999) to Virginia Tech (2005) to Sandy Hook, Conn. (2012) to the Navy Yard in Washington (2013) to Oregon (2015) to the Pulse nightclub in Orlando (2016) to Sutherland Springs in Texas (2017) to Parkland, Fla. (2018) to El Paso, Texas (2019). This month we’ve experienced two horrific mass […]
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Commentary: How the NRA evolved from backing a 1934 ban on machine guns to blocking nearly all firearm restrictions today
The mass shootings at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket and an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, just 10 days apart, are stirring the now-familiar national debate over guns seen after the tragic 2012 and 2018 school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, and Parkland, Florida. Inevitably, if also understandably, many Americans are blaming the National Rifle Association […]
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Gordon Weil: Ukraine issue may cause traditional GOP revival
It’s “a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing.” That was one man’s opinion years ago of a spark setting off the world’s greatest conflict. Just before the Russian attack on Ukraine, a U.S. Senate candidate taunted worriers, saying, “I got to be honest with you, I don’t really care […]
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