Archive for 'Commentary'
EPA Puts Maine’s Biomass Industry On Notice
Posted on 31. Aug, 2010 by Matthew Gagnon.
Congress may have ended their session before they were able to pass job-killing energy regulations, but the EPA is taking up the slack, gearing up to begin enforcing it’s “tailoring rule” starting in January, the EPA will begin issuing “permits” designed to “allow” carbon emitters like power plants. In return for receiving this gift from [...]
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Wave Elections, And Seats No One Thought Would Fall
Posted on 30. Aug, 2010 by Matthew Gagnon.
By most objective analysis, we are headed for what is known in politics as a “wave” election. The concept shouldn’t be too unfamiliar to us, as we just experienced two successive wave years. In 2006, largely in response to voter dissatisfaction with the Iraq War as well as a Congress seemingly plagued with ethical problems, [...]
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The Race to the Top Blame Game
Posted on 28. Aug, 2010 by Derek Viger.
Now that we have the comments from Maine’s Race to the Top application why we did so poorly is clear. In the coming weeks there will surely be some finger pointing and “It wasn’t me” going around. Some of it has begun already. So who deserves to wear the dunce cap? I wasn’t impressed by [...]
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Baldacci, Libby Mitchell, and the ‘Letter to Nowhere’
Posted on 26. Aug, 2010 by Lance Dutson.
The Memorial and Sarah Long bridges that connect Kittery to Portsmouth, New Hampshire are crumbling, and need to be repaired or replaced. The lifespan of the two bridges has ended at the same time, creating an unusually expensive problem. Libby Mitchell and her fellow Democrats in Augusta have ignored critical infrastructure like this for decades, [...]
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More Babyish Whining About Trackers
Posted on 23. Aug, 2010 by Matthew Gagnon.
Oh, those poor oppressed politicians. Everyone is always trying to hear what they say when they are out in public – this is no way to conduct a democracy! For the second time in this campaign, a major candidate for Maine’s highest office has protested the recording of their public appearances – this time it [...]
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Maine GOP Goes After Eliot Cutler As A Tax Hiker
Posted on 05. Aug, 2010 by Matthew Gagnon.
Today, Maine Republicans went on the offensive against Eliot Cutler, attempting to paint him as a tax raising pseudo-Democrat. Christie-Lee McNally, the executive director of the Maine Republican Party, today penned an op-ed in the Bangor Daily News, attacking a previous op-ed penned by Ed Karass and linking prior statements of his to Cutler, and [...]
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Guest Column: Addressing Media Criticism
Posted on 02. Aug, 2010 by Anthony Ronzio.
If you work in the media, you learn to love your critics. They see the holes in your product that you fail to see yourself, and by pointing out your shortcomings, prove themselves to be your most stalwart supporters. I respect my critics. I count some of my harshest as friends. I don’t know Matt [...]
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Can We Cut The Crap About The Media Already?
Posted on 29. Jul, 2010 by Augusta Insider.
I am up to my ears sick and tired of hearing about media bias. Any time a conservative candidate for office shoots himself in the foot (and let’s not mince words here folks, that is exactly the kind of amateur mistakes that have been happening in the last week or so with certain candidates for [...]
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Cutler Unveils Republican Coalition
Posted on 13. Jul, 2010 by Matthew Gagnon.
Yesterday, Eliot Cutler‘s own release made it clear. In the words of Ted O’Meara: “The Republican attack line since the Primary has been that Eliot is ‘just a Democrat masquerading as independent.’” This is the biggest perception Cutler is now, has been, and will be running against as he works to win this election. And [...]
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Chellie Pingree To Vote Against Obama’s War
Posted on 01. Jul, 2010 by Matthew Gagnon.
Today, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree took to Facebook to announce her opposition to any “war funding” in the supplemental budget: I plan on opposing war funding in the supplemental budget. The war in Afghanistan has gone on too long, has cost us far too much in lives lost and dollars spent, and is not making America [...]
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Bruce Poliquin Steps In A Hornet’s Nest On Guns
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