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Randall Poulton lives in Winterport. His columns appear every other week in The Republican Journal.
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Why you should vote for Susan
By Randall Poulton - Oct 01It looks like Susan Collins is in a tight race, although I don't trust political polls. I find the Collins polling numbers particularly odd, ...
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To connect or not to connect?
By Randall Poulton - Sep 03To connect or not to connect, that is the question. Is it nobler to burn fossil fuels, content in the belief that we have saved the great North ...
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Analyzing the numbers
By Randall Poulton - Aug 06For this week's column, I am going to dig into some of the numbers that define current events and “do the math.” That it is left to me to do this ...
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Time to vote
By Randall Poulton - Jul 09A couple of weeks ago, I applied, via mail, for my absentee ballot. Now I have it in hand and it is time to vote. On top of the political and ...
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Mills stays mum on corona deaths
By Randall Poulton - Jun 11On Tuesday June 2, the CDC reported five Mainers died of COVID 19. Holy smokes, that seems like a lot! What is going on? A new outbreak? Who were ...
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The strange case of Tara Reade
By Randall Poulton - May 14Intertwined between the impeachment of Donald Trump and the coronavirus pandemic is a “bombshell” story that, until very recently, had gotten a ...
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Coronavirus, take three
By Randall Poulton - Apr 16This is the third column I have written on the subject of the coronavirus. No, you did not somehow miss the first two; they were not published. In ...
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It doesn’t get better
By Randall Poulton - Mar 19Twenty or so Mainers have died while serving our country in Afghanistan. In my opinion, they are all heroes. Whether the United States military ...
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Common Core is no more
By Randall Poulton - Feb 27While doing research for another project, I came across an editorial in the St. Nicholas magazine that predicted there would be trouble if the ...
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Who is Mayor Pete?
By Randall Poulton - Feb 13In yet another example of why political polls should be ignored, underdog Pete Buttigieg more or less won the Iowa caucus. Frontrunner Joe Biden ...
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Trump: The right choice?
By Randall Poulton - Sep 17During the 2016 campaign, Democrats rolled out various reasons why Donald Trump was the wrong choice for the job of president of the United ...
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Mailing it in
By Randall Poulton - Aug 20Even before corona, our election system had plenty of problems — remember those hanging chads? But the idea that this November tens of millions of ...
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The PPP — Just because you can?
By Randall Poulton - Jul 23The list of companies that received “loans” as part of the Paycheck Protection Program has been released. In case you don't remember, the PPP was ...
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The great involuntary experiment
By Randall Poulton - Jun 18In many ways, for the last three months, we have all become guinea pigs in a great, involuntary experiment. Now the results are starting to roll ...
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Maine’s Walter Wyman: genius or ecoterrorist?
By Randall Poulton - May 28I am guessing 99% of the folks reading this column have no idea who Walter Wyman is, let alone whether he is deserving of either label. Don't feel ...
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No perspective in an online world
By Randall Poulton - Apr 30For the last two months, Mainers have been beaten down with a 24/7 media bombardment of corona doom and gloom. To make matters worse, our American ...
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Gone fishin'
By Randall Poulton - Apr 02I expect readers would appreciate a break from 24/7 coronavirus news, and I am sick of politics. So, in this column, I will reminisce a bit about ...
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Maine's 10-year plan
By Randall Poulton - Mar 05The Mills administration has just rolled out its economic master plan, titled: Maine Economic Development Strategy (hereafter: the plan). The ...
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Maine needs a bed tax
By Randall Poulton - Feb 20My wife and I have arrived in Florida for our annual “spring break.” Maine's six-month-long winter is something I now dread. So, until global ...
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How did this happen?
By Randall Poulton - Jan 23Last week's apocalyptic ice storm that wasn't got me thinking. As I watched the hyperventilating talking heads doing live shots while standing in ...