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PublishedJuly 3, 2011
MAINE COMPASS: Heroes on the other side of the glass wall
I sat at the airport gate, waiting for a flight from Bangor to Florida a few years ago. The gate was full of people excited about the trip that was in front of them. I was one of them.
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PublishedJuly 2, 2011
COMMENTARY: Everyone should get Giffords’ care
We all should be as lucky as Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
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PublishedJuly 2, 2011
MAINE COMPASS: School-based program teaches kids basics of philanthropy
A young man I'll call Jack spent a couple of hours at Portland's Wayside Food Warehouse unloading cases of donated food, organizing freezer space and loading milk onto trucks for local soup kitchens.
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PublishedJuly 2, 2011
MAINE COMPASS: 30 years ago, crusader finally won battle for smoke-detector law
Every year, thousands of Maine children and adults suffer through nighttime fires in their homes or apartments. Nearly 100 percent of them live to tell about it, a far different statistic from that of 30 years ago.
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PublishedJuly 2, 2011
REDBLUEAMERICA: Should paid sick leave for workers be mandatory?
When President Obama took office in 2009, his administration backed an effort to require businesses to provide paid sick leave to their employees. The legislation didn't go anywhere at the federal level, but it's picking up steam at the state and municipal rungs.
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PublishedJuly 2, 2011
DANA MILBANK: Campaign finance system already a comedy
The comedian Stephen Colbert flew down to Washington last week to parody the nation's campaign finance laws. But there was a flaw in his plan: The campaign finance system already is a parody.
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PublishedApril 19, 2011
DAVID B. OFFER: Grandview folks deserve to reclaim neighborhood from asphalt plant
I have little sympathy for a business that sets up operations in a neighborhood and makes life miserable for people who have lived there for decades by filling the air with noise, dust and odor.
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PublishedApril 18, 2011
MAINE COMPASS: Positives of wind power more than overcome the negatives
A growing number of Maine's residents are supporting wind power as one of the many energy alternatives our state sorely needs.
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PublishedApril 17, 2011
MIKE TIPPING: No. 2 ranking in student debt nothing for Maine to be proud of
We’re No. 2! Maine now places the second-highest financial burden on our college students among the 50 states, edged out of first place only slightly by Mississippi.
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PublishedApril 16, 2011
LIZ SOARES: Getting that ‘serf’ feeling when too much time devoted to the royals
I have tried to avoid all the media hoopla about the British royal wedding, simply because it is media hoopla.
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