When considering the merger opportunity, those of us who have lived much of our lives must think of the world our children and grandchildren will inhabit long after we are gone. Times change; what might have worked in the past no longer gives our younger generations a running start into a world that will continue […]
Maura Murphy
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Facts do matter
I remember back in junior high school, learning the “five Ws and one H” questions (who, what, where, when, why, how) that were considered the most essential to answer in any news report. While the article “Bates College addresses allegations that black student handcuffed at dance” (May 24), doesn’t come close to answering those questions, […]
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Should support school budget
Richard Smith’s letter (April 3) somehow managed to link a larger school budget in Lewiston with criticism of Councilor Jim Lysen’s support of immigrants in the community. If Smith asserts that immigrant youths “can hardly speak English” — a criticism used to exclude French Canadians from opportunity even a generation ago — then he should […]
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Maura Murphy: Outcome of Lewiston Question 1 vitally important
I will always remember the helpless horror I felt in May 2013 as I sat in New Delhi, India, poring over news coverage from my hometown of the fires that screamed through three Pierce Street, Lewiston, apartment buildings, rendering 29 families homeless within minutes. Then came a swell of gratitude, pride even, that moved me […]
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M. Murphy: History repeats itself in L-A
As a descendant of the once entirely unwelcome Irish immigrants to Lewiston, I am both saddened and ashamed that more than a 150 years later, history is still repeating itself on the banks of the Androscoggin. For those who are interested in Lewiston’s history — or who think it matters — here is a hauntingly […]