Alan Miklofsky, left, past chairman of the National Shoe Retailers Association, presents Jim Wellehan with the 2018 Retailer of the Year award at the association’s annual leadership conference recently in National Harbor, Maryland. Wellehan ran Lamey-Wellehan until retiring in January, when he was succeeded by Don Stowell, who continues to tap Wellehan’s knowledge as a consultant.
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Great slate of candidates
The public has an important opportunity — and civic duty — coming up with the next election. Many issues are important — health care, opportunity and good education for all — but after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 700-page report from scientists in 91 nations, it became obvious to me that the environment has […]
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One community, two communities or several communities?
Lewiston and Auburn are considering the benefits of becoming one city. Many say that the communities are too different to merge. But there are differences as large within each city. New Auburn, working so hard to maintain its identity, is distinct from West Auburn, downtown Auburn, or Danville. (Danville was separate from Auburn, until it […]
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Teaming up to help the world
On Saturday, Nov. 5, the Sun Journal carried a letter from Tom Harris, executive director, International Climate Science Coalition. Stunningly, he denied man-made climate change. I Googled his organization and found that he had previously worked for the tobacco industry, denying the harmful effects of smoking, that he has a master’s degree in English (but […]
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Can make up own mind about merger
I read with curiosity Jim Wellehan’s guest column (July 3), in which he compares opposition to a Lewiston-Auburn merger to the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union. That is a bizarre claim that is a very tenuous stretch, to say the least. First of all, the world economy has not gone into “freefall” since […]
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Keep open mind about merger
England just voted to leave the European Union. Financial markets went into free fall. The value of the British pound dropped dramatically and there is concern this will plunge the world into a global recession. Minimally, England’s failure to share governance with Europe will hurt their economy intensely. That separation with different perspectives was what […]
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Wellehan to receive Claddagh Award
AUBURN — James Wellehan, president of Lamey-Wellehan, a Maine-based, family-owned shoe store chain that marked its 100th anniversary in 2014, will become the eighth recipient of the Maine Irish Heritage Center’s Claddagh Award. The award will be presented at a celebration and dinner at the Maine Irish Heritage Center on Gray Street in Portland on […]
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Clean elections or dirty?
Elections present communities with very strong candidates. It takes courage to run for office. Sadly, it also takes money, and “big money” in elections is destructive of democracy. In this election, voting “Yes” on Question 1 will restore the effectiveness of clean elections. We have all seen terribly destructive negative ads on television or as […]
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Return to a culture of concern for others
The Great Recession moved economists to focus on inequality as a social and economic hazard, and to study “the Ginnie Coefficient” (a measure of income inequality in different countries or regions of a country) and the impact of a return on capital being greater than the return on labor, setting up an upper class constantly […]
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J. Wellehan: Candidates to get Maine moving
Maine’s infrastructure is crumbling. Voters approved bonds four years ago to fix things when jobs were most needed. The governor, aided by Republicans, prevented that. They also turned down a large investment in off-shore wind power that would have created jobs and energy. They turned down $200 million annually to provide health insurance for Maine’s […]