LEWISTON — Twin Cities mayors made a lunchtime pitch to U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Friday, asking for help reshaping the downtown area’s housing. “One of the signature federal programs that support our downtown is the Community Development Block Grant program and the senator has a unique role in that,” Auburn Mayor Jonathan LaBonte said. […]
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Top ten news stories of 2011
You know it’s been a lively year for news when some of the wildest stories don’t even make the year-end top 10 list. There was the dubious case of dogs being stolen around Oxford County. There was the hoopla over the casino vote and then the anti-climax as the measure was shot down. In Auburn, […]
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L-A’s image is of two cities working together
One of our online readers quipped last week that the best way for Lewiston to solve its image problem would be to stop talking about its image problem. Brilliant. Our low self-esteem has certainly been on parade recently. The high-profile mayoral race, which ended last week, focused more on what’s wrong with Lewiston than what’s […]
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R. Mills: Moving forward with respect
I was shocked at the choice of words Robert Macdonald chose upon learning of his victory in Lewiston’s mayoral race. I voted for him because I felt he would make the tough decisions that need to be made in Lewiston in order for this town to prosper. Lewiston doesn’t want or need someone to bully […]
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Struggle and progess: 10 years of Somalis in Lewiston
“I can’t believe I’ve been here 10 years,” Hussein Ahmed said, sitting in a meeting at the African Immigrants Association office on Lisbon Street, a week after the November election. Others in the room, a collection of local Somali leaders — social services caseworkers, a nurse and a mosque administrator among them — nodded their […]
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Macdonald apologizes for election-night comments
LEWISTON — Mayor-elect Bob Macdonald apologized to the city Thursday for his election-night comments — but his apology wasn’t enough for some members of the city’s immigrant community. Abdifatah Ahmed, a local landlord and pharmacist, said Macdonald ought to apologize for his tone throughout the mayoral campaign, not just his election-night comments. During his campaign, […]
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Great leaders overcome their angry impulses
Books have been written about leadership skills, but war leader and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had very concise advice: “In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.” Magnanimity comes from the Latin root magn (great) and animus (generous). In other words, a person showing great generosity. Goodwill is, of course, […]
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D. Gilchrist: Not a welfare capital
In Mark Paradis’ campaign ads, he speaks of change occurring the right way. That has been the mantra of liberal thinking for too long and I have seen the result in Lewiston of that “right” change. A decade ago, a former mayor tried to slow down the change and was roundly castigated for it. He […]
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R. Bosse Jr.: Background speaks for itself
I was at the Lewiston mayoral debate on Nov. 28. It was standing-room only. That shows that the citizens of Lewiston care about who will become the next elected mayor of an all-America city. I heard both side’s answers to the questions that were asked. To me, Robert Macdonald came out on top. His answers […]
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J. Smith: Help Lewiston make move
With the runoff election for mayor of Lewiston just a matter of days away, people need to realize that there are two individuals with different views on how to improve Lewiston’s image. People need to check out the facts and make a clear-cut decision, based on what they perceive the future holds. For me, the […]