Patiently awaiting the Golden Years
Randall Poulton lives in Winterport. His columns appear every other week in The Republican Journal.
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The passing of Midnight Pass
By Randall Poulton - Apr 12This will be my last dispatch from Florida. We will miss the warm and sunny weather, but I really want to be home in time for mud season. There is ...
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Well, I'll be
By Randall Poulton - Mar 01For the next few weeks, I will be writing from the Gulf Coast of Florida. After a cold January, the weather here has turned warm and we are ...
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Bush league and Busch beer
By Randall Poulton - Feb 01In 1973, I contemplated playing football at the University of Maine. I was a pretty good player in high school, but my tall, skinny physique was ...
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2018 in review, sans politics (mostly)
By Randall Poulton - Jan 04Here is my look back at my top stories for 2018. Relax and enjoy. You will not find a single mention of “Russian Collusion” or Nordic's proposed ...
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27,000 tons of salt
By Randall Poulton - Dec 13Last week, the TV in the family room died during Monday Night Football. This was doubly disappointing as the Titans were playing the Texans: a ...
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Just say no
By Randall Poulton - Oct 18Editor's note: The Republican Journal does not fact-check opinion columns. This column reflects the writer's opinion and personal research. Will ...
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Influencing elections
By Randall Poulton - Aug 18First, let me say I do not like it, at all, that politicians use fake news and lies to influence our elections and I like it even less that ...
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Will Santa Fe be Our School 9-11?
By Randy Poulton - Jun 08In the wake of another horrible school massacre, the usual politicians have trotted out the same stale cries for more robust forms of gun control, ...
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The global community
By Randall Poulton - Feb 14When I hear or read a report that the “global community” condemns something (usually President Trump) or, for that matter, supports something, I ...
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Tax reform for Christmas?
By Randall Poulton - Dec 07When the person who owns the newspaper I write for asks for help understanding tax reform, I am happy to do my best to oblige! Several of the ...
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Random thoughts from paradise
By Randall Poulton - Mar 15One of my takeaways from spending time in Florida is sometimes you need to “live it” to truly get it. In this case, the “it” I am talking about is ...
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Health insurance: The big lie
By Randall Poulton - Feb 15I know a lot about health insurance. I became an expert the hard way: I got injured and then, a year later, I got sick. At least for me, what I ...
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An equal opportunity destroyer
By Randall Poulton - Jan 18A member of my family is well on the way to drinking and drugging themselves to death. It is a very sad situation but unfortunately far from ...
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Fort Knox — 12 years later
By Randall Poulton - Dec 27I was probably around 7 or 8 years old the first time my parents took me to Fort Knox. What I clearly remember was it was one heck of a good time ...
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Blowing in the wind
By Randall Poulton - Nov 23A few weeks ago, my wife and I were scheduled to attend a family soiree at a historic lodge on Webb Lake, near Mount Blue State Park. Since we had ...
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640 inches of snow
By Randall Poulton - Sep 12As you may have noticed, the people who forecast the future are seldom correct. However, we not only seem to believe the individual forecasts; we ...
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So what is the solution?
By Randall Poulton - Jul 08The Trump administration's short-lived zero tolerance border policy may turn out to be yet a another “win” for the resident. That is because it ...
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Gradually and then suddenly
By Randall Poulton - Apr 27Describing his personal decent into bankruptcy, Ernest Hemingway said it happened “gradually and then suddenly.” The fall of American icon General ...
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2017 in review — sans politics (mostly)
By Randall Poulton - Jan 17Here is my look back at the top stories of 2017. Relax. You will not find a single mention of “Russian Collusion,” “Rocket Man” or Gov. LePage! Jan...
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Please wear orange
By Randall Poulton - Nov 25Unfortunately, I saw the tragic shooting death of Karen Wrentzel coming. The following story is in no way intended to exonerate the hunter, who ...
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