Tag: Maine
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The Last Mile
One of my last assignments in the military was helping to get resources to our troops in the field. We found that it was easy to bring a full suite of digital tools to operational commands located on established forward operating bases but we struggled to bring these same tools to tactical units out in…
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Sign Of The Times
In case you hadn’t noticed yet—maybe you haven’t driven back from a Celtics or Bruins game, or haven’t returned from the warmer climates to our south, but Maine is no longer “Open for Business.” Oh, don’t be too upset, after all we are running at almost-zero unemployment and things are rolling pretty smoothly, economically speaking…and…
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When Right Compromises…
So much is being made about the political divisions in our nation. It appears everyone has an opinion about why we are so divided, and that partisan politics is driving the division. I disagree. While there is no question, we face some significant political division in our nation, politics is just a convenient foil in…
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Governor Mills’ First Budget Address
Governor Mills has submitted her first State budget. Last Friday, as a Republican member of the Appropriations Committee, I received a budget briefing from the Governor’s staff. I appreciated the courtesy and the ability to learn more about her plans for Maine in advance of her budget speech to Maine. Now that specifics have been…
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How’s Your New Year’s Resolutions?
It is February! By now you are either skinny, drinking 8 glasses of water every day, and driving around in a perfectly clean car or…you are among the other 92% who have already given up. This month’s article is definitely going to be about Special Olympics but I am also going to throw in a…
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Hope in a journey of grief
In August of 2018, a mother orca whale made news as she traveled the ocean with her dead calf in tow. For 17 days, the bereaved mother whale named Tahlequah, or J35 by researchers, swam nudging her calf along in a journey of grief of over 1,000 miles. The world marveled about this mother’s strenuous…
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