Matthew Gagnon

A time to kill (the caucus)
I suppose it seemed like a good idea at the ...

Amy Fried

As Iowa goes, so goes Maine?
Maine may become the next Iowa. No, Maine’s not going ...

Kent Ward

Basketball as relief from winter
For many a rural Mainer, a memorable vehicular encounter with ...

David Farmer

Caucus fracas fractures GOP
When it comes to elections, my faith in GOP Chairman ...
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Robin Hall (far left) and Donna Pulver (seated) volunteer to be delegates to the Maine state Republican Convention in 2008 while Penobscot County Republican chairwoman Lois Bloomer of Hermon (right) talks with Hermon Republicans during Maine's GOP Caucus for Penobscot County at Husson College.
EDITORIALS

What’s more important — presidential or party preference?

The Maine Republican Party’s caucus debacle rightly raises the question of the value of the caucus compared to the better-understood and more widely used primary. ...
CONTRIBUTORS

Sussman in the newspaper boardroom should worry us all

If the New York Yankees were allowed to subsidize the ...
CONTRIBUTORS

DCP propane terminal serious environmental threat

Board members of the Friends of Sears Island, or FOSI, ...
CONTRIBUTORS

A good time to consider strengths of caucus process

This is a response to Matthew Gagnon’s recent column on ...

Civility is golden

Can civility be saved? This has become the question du ...
CONTRIBUTORS

Kestrel as case study in how Maine should woo

Now that the political posturing around Kestrel Aircraft Company’s decision ...
CONTRIBUTORS

LURC reform plan threatens home rule

LURC reform will bring a sea change to planning, zoning ...
OTHER VOICES

Unfair ticket pricing

Baffled and bewildered travelers are getting a break this month, ...
CONTRIBUTORS

Venezuela’s ballot-box uprising

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GWYNNE DYER

New divisions in Africa go from bad to worse

Sudan was bombing South Sudan again last week, only a ...
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER

Obamacare versus the Constitution

Give him points for cleverness. President Obama’s birth control “accommodation” ...
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