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Thursday, February 9, 2012

MAINE COMPASS: Quiet revolution: transitioning to a sustainable energy future

Not long ago, I participated in a retrospective workshop at Harvard University about the sulfur allowance program.

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

GEORGE SMITH: Battle about opt-out provision in LURC plan gets partisan, ugly

Most Mainers agree that the state's 10 million acres of northern forest should remain intact, sheltering our wildlife, feeding our economy, feeding our soul. The owners of those lands share these goals.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

MIKE TIPPING: Poll results only as good as their methods, sample size, questions

If you've read this column regularly, you know that misrepresentation of polling data is one of my pet peeves.

Monday, February 6, 2012

MAINE COMPASS: Free children's vaccinations will encourage preventative health care

Families concerned about health care costs now have one less thing to worry about: As of Jan. 1, children 18 and younger get their vaccinations without having to pay the cost of the vaccine.

Sunday, February 5, 2012

DANA MILBANK: GOP freshmen's media show gives evidence of lowered expectations

House freshmen have been on the job for almost exactly a year, and until now they've done little more than talk about cutting the national debt.

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Assad's fall would hinder Iran, benefit US, Arab League

Imperial regimes can crack when they are driven out of their major foreign outposts. The fall of the Berlin Wall did not just signal the liberation of Eastern Europe from Moscow. It prefigured the collapse of the Soviet Union itself just two years later.

THEODORA KALIKOW: Culling old clothes, books can inspire change in ideas, beliefs

Cleaning out is my No. 1 task these days. I'm getting ready to retire and my move out of the President's House at the University of Maine Farmington to camp in Mount Vernon in June.

Saturday, February 4, 2012

M.D. HARMON: Obama's insurance ruling quashes moral concerns about abortion

After the events of recent days, have Roman Catholics -- or at least the ones who go to Mass regularly and try to live by the historical teachings of their faith -- finally realized that President Barack Obama doesn't care what they or other traditional believers think about him?