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High oil price: what can we do? |
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by Senator Susan M. Collins
As I visit communities around the state of Maine, I hear time and again that the high cost of energy is causing a crisis for many of our citizens. Rapidly increasing prices for home heating oil, gasoline, diesel fuel, and other products refined from oil are a huge burden for many families, truckers, and small businesses. High oil prices affect virtually every corner of the economy, here in our state and throughout the country, and are a significant cause of the current economic downturn.
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Bob Trabona of Georgetown |
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by B.J. Carter
Coastal Journal staff
CJ: Let’s start at the beginning. Where were you born?
BT: I was born and raised on Long Island. I left Long Island when I was 18, went to college for a year and a half, then I dropped out and enlisted in the Navy. The Navy had a program that I found out about after I got in where they would send you to college, but for every six months of school you attended, you would owe them nine months of service. But at the end of it, you got a commission. I applied to that program and got in, went through four years of school, and by the time I got through my years of obligated service, I had been in for ten years. I was halfway to retirement already. It was kind of a no-brainer to stick around. After thirty years I wound up getting out as a Captain in the Navy.
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Film Review - Before the Devil Knows You're Dead |
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An exercise in scorn
by B. J. Carter
Coastal Journal staff
None of the characters in Sydney Lumet’s Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead exhibit redeemable qualities. None of them. The film is one endless circle of ugliness - the characters do bad things and bad things happen to them in return. The fact that I was chuckling to myself as the credits rolled is a testament to Lumet’s undiminished skills at 83 years of age.
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Thou dost not annoint my head |
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by Gina Hamilton
Coastal Journal editor
I don’t know if anybody else is having this problem, but it’s been taking an inordinate amount of time for us to get a delivery of oil. Now, we don’t use a lot of oil ... a tank goes a long way - about half the season. So I went into the office, paid the bill, and requested a delivery last Thursday. The Oil Company, which shall be nameless, if not blameless, assured me that the delivery would take place last Thursday or Friday. So when on Thursday the tank hadn’t been filled, I was not alarmed.
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by Gina Hamilton
Coastal Journal staff
BRUNSWICK - Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) changes lives. Despite the help offered by the V.A. and Vet Centers, acknowledging that a soldier or a loved one needs help is difficult, and encouraging a loved one to seek help is also difficult. These are four stories from returning Iraq vets, and the wife of a returning vet, as they describe the PTSD they or their partner suffered after returning from deployment.
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