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AL DIAMON

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Too much posse

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John Richardson has lots of friends in the Legislature. Unfortunately for him, they may be the wrong friends.
By AL DIAMON  |  June 07, 2006

World-class listening problem

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Here’s something you won’t want to hear: there’s nothing inherently wrong with property taxes.
By AL DIAMON  |  May 31, 2006

The restoration of chaos and order

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The inmates have taken over the asylum. Go, inmates.
By AL DIAMON  |  May 24, 2006

Something’s always wrong

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The Maine Heritage Policy Center could find bad news in free beer.
By AL DIAMON  |  May 17, 2006

Watch what you say

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I’m fond of tourists. For a while, I kept a pair in the basement as pets.
By AL DIAMON  |  May 10, 2006

Average fairy tale

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Once upon a time, there was an ordinary fellow named Horace B. Ferretpooter, who became governor of an actual state, even though he had no qualifications except an inoffensive manner and a large quantity of roadkill stew seasoned with pine cones
By AL DIAMON  |  May 03, 2006

At war with the mystics

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To disguise the fact I was too lazy to do any real work this week, I had to fill this space with a list of all the stupid things the Christian Civic League of Maine did lately.
By AL DIAMON  |  April 26, 2006

Playing the angel

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Former congressman David Emery’s correct in thinking that public campaign financing is a luxury the state can’t afford, but his aversion to Clean Election money seems to be more a matter of convenience than conviction.
By AL DIAMON  |  October 27, 2008

Ways not to lose

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In most legislative districts, frontrunners can admit to any indiscretion short of a fondness for Osama bin Laden and still win.
By AL DIAMON  |  April 12, 2006

A promise you can’t keep

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Republican state senator Chandler Woodcock of Farmington has made a remarkable promise. Or a desperate one.
By AL DIAMON  |  April 05, 2006

Are you dead yet?

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The Green Party is contracting, to the point where that’s about the only place it has any political impact, and once you get outside Portland, Green candidates for the Legislature are rare as profitable paper mills.
By AL DIAMON  |  March 29, 2006

Swing the statue

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I intend to show my gratitude to this state by commissioning a monument to be placed in some appropriate public space; it would depict historic moments that define Maine’s character (which is, to be honest, kinda weird).
By AL DIAMON  |  March 22, 2006

Second place is the first loser

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With the balloting not set to begin for more than seven months, our analysts are now prepared to call the race in Maine’s 2 nd Congressional District.
By AL DIAMON  |  March 15, 2006

Don’t get too hip

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Officials at the Maine Department of Agriculture and Assorted Other Kultures are still reeling from the news that TV celebrity Homer Simpson has endorsed Maine potatoes.
By AL DIAMON  |  March 08, 2006

This was always meant to fail

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Maine House of Representatives candidate Peter P. Misluk Jr. of Searsmont has a dark secret  ... he’s a Democrat.
By AL DIAMON  |  March 01, 2006

Best left alone

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Wshould offer a tax break to a group described by an authoritative source as “generally more intelligent, better looking, imaginative, and multi-talented” than the majority of the population: Left-handed people.
By AL DIAMON  |  February 22, 2006

War pigs

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Fortunately, there’s no need for you to sort the boars from the bores in the upcoming gubernatorial race, because most of these oinkers don’t have the chops for this race and will be bacon long before the ballots are printed.
By AL DIAMON  |  February 16, 2006

A beautiful lie

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In an era when “conservative” can mean favoring federal deficits and government intrusion into private lives, and “liberal” has become synonymous with support for states’ rights and opposition to activist judges, terms like “pro-choice” and “pro-life” have drifted into foggy territory.
By AL DIAMON  |  February 09, 2006

The trouble with the truth

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I think I deserve considerable credit for not comparing Governor John Baldacci’s state-of-the-state address to the kind of memoir that wins an endorsement from Oprah’s book club.
By AL DIAMON  |  February 02, 2006

Twisted

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There’s got to be something more important in Maine to get your knickers knotted up about than the political convolutions currently contorting way too many pairs of skivvies.
By AL DIAMON  |  January 25, 2006
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