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LNG: Trust Us

Word that liquefied natural gas, or LNG, may not be available in sufficient quantities to justify large investments in new terminals should come as sobering news to the Passamaquoddy Indians and other LNG proponents in Maine. With at least three projects at the talking stage for Washington County alone, as well as two others further

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Thinking Big

The trouble we’re having getting a bond issue on the ballot to support working waterfronts and farms should tell us it’s time to think differently about the future of Maine’s endangered coast. Not that the coast itself is going extinct — it’ll be there a century from now regardless of what we do or don’t

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Government and Island Tradition

Maine people, with their strong tradition of local government, make many decisions at annual town meetings. On islands at least, the town meeting season begins in March and extends into June. This month we report on the March crop of island town meetings. The Legislature, meanwhile, is deep into its winter-spring deliberations, some of which

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Journalism Matters

Gardiner: Tilbury House, Publishers 376 pp., $20.00 Summing Up A memoir is a summing-up, an opportunity to get those things off your chest that you’ve always wanted to say, to set the record straight and, finally, to tell your own story. When Peter Cox retired from Maine Times in 1986, he told everyone he wanted

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Island voting: small numbers, diverse views

Islanders reflected Maine’s voting pattern as a whole on Election day, favoring John Kerry and the two incumbent congressmen but turning down the Palesky tax cap and the proposal to ban bear-baiting. The bear-baiting referendum passed in five island voting precincts, failed in seven and tied in one. President George W. Bush scored his sole

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RAWFAITH readies herself for southbound voyage

RAWFAITH, the 100-foot, three-masted galleon built in Jonesport by dedicated volunteers (WWF Oct 04), reached Rockland in September, and her owners now plan to sail her south to New Jersey and eventually to Jacksonville, Florida. RAWFAITH was designed to be the first wheelchair accessible large sailing vessel. She was launched Aug. 2. Since then, executive

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Changing Maine, 1960-2010

Edited and with an Introduction by Richard E. Barringer, Illustrated by Jon Luoma Gardiner and Portland: Tilbury House, Publishers, and the Muskie School of Public Service, 2004 $20.00 Maine, Then and Now As a onetime editor of Maine Times I can claim a minority interest in this fascinating book: editor Dick Barringer dedicates it to

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