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PublishedMay 28, 2023
The Maine Millennial: The road to a new relationship is full of rocks
More and more these days, I feel like I’m onstage in a play where everyone else got a script and I didn’t.
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PublishedMay 28, 2023
Commentary: The best way to deal with the debt ceiling? Ignore it.
If all of President Biden’s options are unconstitutional, then he should choose the least unconstitutional option.
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PublishedMay 28, 2023
Maine Voices: Long-term home health care can be a gift to nurses as well as clients
I may visit weekly or I may visit monthly, but I stay an hour and I’ll be back soon.
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PublishedMay 28, 2023
Commentary: Why do we assume that it’s safe to use our phones while we drive?
There’s growing recognition that the use of handheld phones while driving is profoundly dangerous. The data suggest that using your phone ‘responsibly’ isn’t great either.
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PublishedMay 23, 2023
Vicki Sullivan, Portland: A godsent brush with the Beatles – and 15 minutes of fame
I am not one to play the lottery, go to casinos or attempt games of chance. I don’t consider myself to be a lucky person. But luck came to me in a big way one time. In the summer of 1964, the Beatles were coming to America. I was a big fan and asked my […]
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PublishedMay 23, 2023
Gail Caiazzo, Saco: The play date that yielded a lifelong friend
Sept. 7, 1982, was the first day of kindergarten for my son. We had just moved into the neighborhood a few weeks earlier and had not yet made many acquaintances. Since our daughter was just a couple of months past a year old, she had the privilege of relaxing in a stroller at the bus […]
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PublishedMay 23, 2023
Peter Vose, Falmouth: ‘There but for fortune, may go you or I’
On Dec. 1, 1969, the U.S. held its first Vietnam draft lottery. I was a sophomore in college and my birthday drew number 75. Men whose numbers were lower than 195 were drafted. I was lucky – I had a student deferment. In September 1972, I heard from the draft board that I was to […]
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PublishedMay 23, 2023
Brenda Smith, Belfast: In search of four-, five- and even six-leaf clovers
Some people have all the luck, while others never seem to get a lucky break. Most of us get lucky at least a few times in our lives. My mother has had more than her fair share of luck. After backyard summer picnics when we were youngsters, Mom liked to challenge my brother and me […]
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PublishedMay 22, 2023
Another View: Is Congress capable of serious action on freight rail safety?
It’s easy for politicians to decry the East Palestine derailment, but when it comes to preventing future disasters, they are MIA.
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PublishedMay 21, 2023
Our View: Sound responses to homelessness in Maine can start small
A realistic, constructive approach acknowledges the stubborn reality of homelessness and works to improve people’s living arrangements in minor ways as well as major.
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