Adbusters is a bi-monthly you can find in the magazine shelves at Farmington’s excellent Mr. Paperback. I noticed it some time ago, but thought nothing of it at the time. Having since…
Neal Dow’s Maine Law, passed in 1851 was the nation’s first adventure with prohibition. In 1884 the legislature “forever prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic fluids except for medicinal and mechanical…
Article V of the US Constitution allows Congress to propose an amendment to the state legislatures by a two-thirds vote in both houses. If three quarters of the state legislatures ratify it…
When Otto von Bismarck heard that a million Germans expected the millennial end of the world in the year 1900, he said in that case he would move to Mecklenburg. He figured…
There’s a huge and growing bibliography of Intellectual History concerned with the origins and evolution of the ideas of major intellectuals. There is very little work on how these ideas reach the…
It was widely reported that Maine’s senior senator was seriously upset when a” tea party candidate” defeated Rep. Mike Castle in the 2010 Delaware Republican primary. CNN reported that “The longer Snowe…
FARMINGTON - A candidate in Maine's 2008 congressional race said an aide who helped during his campaign is the same man accused of killing three people in northern Maine on June 23.
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We start by considering the raw politics, Republicans v. Democrats. According to a Gallup Poll survey last year 36 percent of Maine’s voters identify themselves as conservative, 24 percent as liberal, 40…
When I was an undergraduate at Orono I got to know an ethnic Chinese from Indonesia who was studying papermaking in grad school. He aimed to settle in the United States and,…
I'd like to start by making four points completely clear.
First, I support the right of boobs to air their opinions in public places.
The issue at hand seems simple enough at a superficial…