SOUTH PORTLAND — A fundraising appearance by President Barack Obama scheduled for later this month has been moved to accommodate more supporters. The Friday, March 30 event will now be held at the Hutchinson Union Building gymnasium on the Southern Maine Community College campus. General admission tickets to hear the president speak start at $100 […]
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Street Talk: Campaign season already?
Wait, what? It’s a presidential election year again? You’ve got to be kidding me. I mean, I just put on my smoking jacket and lit my pipe. I was leaning back in my easy chair and thinking: OK, we’ve got a new president. Let’s see what this fellow is all about. Four years? Seriously? I […]
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Weighing in on national, state politics
Here’s a look at what several in our online community had to say about letters to the editor and stories in the news recently. On a Sunday letter to the editor by John R. Davis advocating for the impeachment of President Barack Obama Jonathan Albrecht of Dixfield wrote: “Fox News has created a delusional, misinformed audience […]
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Editorials from around the U.S. on President Obama’s State of the Union speech
The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday, Jan. 25: MIXING POLITICS AND POLICY President Obama had two purposes in his State of the Union address on Tuesday: to offer a manifesto for the 2012 campaign and to articulate policy choices to Congress that would benefit the economy. In a speech that […]
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L. Carrier: We’re better off without Obama
The president is destructive. Barack Obama is no leader, and is conspicuous by his absence at times when leadership is required. It’s just as well since his “leadership” will take America further in the wrong direction. He is not qualified for any position except community dis-organizer. He has done well at polarizing and dividing this […]
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P. Cipolloso: Build the Keystone project
Bringing attention to the economic benefits of the Maine Power Reliability Program (“Massive project has given Maine’s economy a boost, Dec. 20) was spot on. Informing readers of the benefits of a project is equally important as covering opposition concerns. Would that President Barack Obama likewise comes to his senses and approve the construction of […]
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R. Lacombe: Kneel down and pray, America
The presidential elections will be like going to a circus because what we have to look forward to, in terms of presidential candidates, compares to a cage full of monkeys trying to figure out which end of a banana they should peel. And, once they have it peeled they eat the peeling and waste the […]
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M. Newell: Obama is costing us dearly
Since Barack Obama became president, my husband and I (both of us are senior citizens) have seen our Medicare premium increase (we now each pay $99-plus a month, plus we pay for secondary insurance). We have to pay for meds that were formerly covered and each of us has a $150 deductible that we never […]
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Latest Maine poll features questions on Obama, LePage, Cutler and Snowe
A wide-ranging poll conducted last month by the Portland-based firm Pan Atlantic SMS asked Mainers a variety of questions about the economy and state and national political leaders. The poll of 400 registered Maine voters was conducted between Nov. 9 and Nov. 22 and had a margin of error of 4.9 percent. Results indicated that […]
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Locals react to news of war’s end
LEWISTON — It’s official. The war in Iraq is coming to an end this year. Reaction to the news Friday night was pretty much universal — words of relief and glee, tempered by bad memories and lingering doubts. “I’ll believe it when I see it,” said Anissa Roberts, 41, of Bridgton. Roberts has seen up-close […]