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Around 4 a.m. on Monday, I thought I was having a heart attack.
I had gotten home late from work on Sunday when I felt a sharp pain and tightness in my chest that lasted for at …
Something important is happening in Washington, D.C. All week long, the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in the case of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services v. Florida, a suit brought forth by 26 …
Procrastination gets a bad rap.
Teachers, parents and guardians alike consistently castigate its image in both the professional and personal realms. With such a ubiquitous habit — some experts suggest that close to 95 percent of all …
I went to a job interview and wasn’t at all surprised to learn they had checked my Facebook page to ensure credibility.
It wasn’t to see if I had a work ethic nor was it to see …
I never get headaches. Really.
Caffeine withdrawals, sucrose overdoses and droves of screaming children running circuitously around me all have no effect on the aching of my cranium.
However, Fortune’s benevolence toward me has finally begun to fade …
Gov. Paul LePage’s next business-friendly initiative is to shroud the governor’s policy-making process so it’s no longer transparent that nearly all of his policies are literally copied and pasted from the demands of big business.
He has …
Spring break was a busy time in Maine politics.
By now nearly everyone has heard about U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe surprising political observers around the country by announcing her retirement, citing untenable polarization in the Senate. Snowe’s …
In my wild youth — about three years ago — I went to Pakistan for five weeks to teach English, but more to prove to myself that I had the guts to do it.
I stayed with …
On Feb. 17, the FBI announced the arrest of Amine El Khalifi on charges that he planned to blow up the U.S. Capitol Building in a suicide attack.
Authorities took El Khalifi into custody as he was …
Charlie Webster, the Republican Party chair, accused 206 University of Maine System students of committing voter fraud last fall to justify his larger agenda of disenfranchising voters of same-day voter registration.
He found his election fraud this …
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