Maine news, sports, weather from Waterville Morning Sentinel

Friday, February 3, 2012

DENIS THOET: Welcome to Maine, Sunshine State of the North

By my count, Maine has more sunny and partly sunny days per year than any other New England state.

Thursday, February 2, 2012

COMMENTARY: Young woman is one of many who's not limited by stereotypes

Seventeen-year-old Kyla Kolb is busting stereotypes. A senior at Lakewood High in the St. Petersburg, Fla., school's Center for Advanced Technology, she is a computer programming whiz with a 4.2 weighted grade point average.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

GEORGE SMITH: Lack of snow puts damper on Vacationland's draw for tourists

Mainers have always had a love-hate relationship with tourists. We've made them the centerpiece of our jokes, derided them as people "from away," or worse, and even been subject to advertising urging us to be nicer to them.

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

COMMENTARY: If you can afford Super Bowl maybe you should pay more tax

Just when you think you've heard it all, someone reports that the price of the best seat at the Super Bowl -- row one on the 50-yard line of Indianapolis' Lucas Oil Stadium -- is a cool $17,048.

Monday, January 30, 2012

LePage health care proposalis shortsighted and costly

The proposal by Gov. Paul LePage to eliminate health care coverage for extremely poor adults is shortsighted, and will result in a significant shift of costs to our communities and hospitals. More importantly, it will lead to increased suffering and shorter lives.

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Gingrich helps out Obama

The most important figure in Tuesday night's State of the Union address wasn't on the House floor. In fact, he hasn't taken a seat in front of the chamber in 13 years.

Obama's speech was little bit of nothing

WASHINGTON -- Once upon a time, small ball was not Barack Obama's game. Tuesday, it was the essence of his State of the Union address. The visionary of 2008 -- purveyor of hope and change, healer of the earth, tamer of the rising seas -- offered an hour of little things: tax-code tweaks to encourage this or that kind of behavior (manufacturing being the flavor of the day), little watchdog agencies to round up Wall Street miscreants and Chinese DVD pirates, even a presidential demand "that all students stay in high school until they graduate or turn 18." Under penalty of what? Jail? The self-proclaimed transformer of America is now playing truant officer?