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Citizens resist 'idea of mandatory vaccination'
I was in the audience of people who gathered to show citizen resistance to the idea of mandatory vaccination.

Candy can bring good memories from home
Thank you to the dentist sending candy to troops (Nov. 6) from any veteran who has ever served in a war zone or far away from home.

Other 47% of Mainers need out-of-state visitors
This is in response to the North Carolina couple who wrote, on Nov. 11, that they are canceling a two-week vacation to Maine because they do not feel welcome.

Marriage is saved when we the people speak
We know how disappointed the writer of the Question 1 editorial and all his or her "journalistic" colleagues throughout the state are with us for having disregarded your sage advice on how to vote.


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OPINIONS SPECIAL PROJECTS HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. Not Thoreau. 150 years ago he ventured into Maine's woods. The high drama of the nature Thoreau encountered made its way into the equally dramatic prose of his book, The Maine Woods. We mark the 150th anniversary of Thoreau's 1857 trip as well as the legacy of this transcendentalist, nature lover and, as author Ted Williams writes, contrarian who loved Maine in its wildest and most rugged incarnations. For more, click here.

SPECIAL REPORT: Hunger Series
"For I was hungry," a seven-part editorial series, documents the depth and breadth of hunger in Maine, from the dramatic increase in food pantries to the thousands of children who come to school hungry to the elderly with bare cupboards. For more, click here.



A stubborn stain on our society paper
EDITOR'S NOTE: Three Maine Compass columns on the prevention of domestic violence. Part of our opinion pages' continuing examination of domestic violence.
Not now, not ever Mainers speak out about domestic violence and how it has affected their lives, their work and those they love.

paper Maine men write about domestic violence. Download special newspaper page: 'Men Speak Out Against Domestic Violence' [412 KB PDF file]
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paper Writer's feature
From local writing workshops: Words about life
[January 27, 2008]
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