Any effort to decrease voter participation, on either side of the party system, has to generate questions about the motivation of the party that encourages that decrease. This move in and of itself should generate outrage by all voters, Republican or Democrat, as it goes against the basic foundation of the democratic process, which is the voice of the people being expressed through the voting process. This process should remain as simple and as available as possible, which would obviously include registering the same day as one votes. Any effort to constrict or otherwise make it more difficult to vote, as opposed to simpler, smacks of anti-democratic thinking, disrespect for those voters who typically register the day of voting, and is reflective of those who are in power to enforce the...
BLOOMINGTON - The 2,789 in attendance at Saturday night's Bloomington PrairieThunder contest with the Evansville IceMen started their new year by shaking bags of Beer Nuts at the U.S. Cellular Coliseum cameras, the video to be sent to the Guinness Book of World Records in an attempt to set a standard for the world's largest Beer Nuts party. On the ice, the Thunder began its new year by shaking off the aggressively pesky IceMen and scoring a 4-1 Central Hockey League victory.
NORMAL - The Redbird Arena crowd applauded wildly when Jon Ekey came into Saturday's game with 12:33 left in the first half. -Illinois State coach Tim Jankovich might not have shown it, but inside he was cheering just as furiously for his team's defense the entire two hours.
Ice skating rink business owners see the growing number of temporary outdoor rinks as free market promotion for their own interests, not as holiday season competition, they said. I think our numbers have actually grown for the last couple of weekends," said Cindy Sharkey, manager at Blazers Ice Centre in Oklahoma City. "We were kind of worried about it at first - that everybody would go to the outdoor rink and not come here. But we've actually gotten busier.
Many community banks face a dilemma. Their main reason for being is to make commercial real estate loans, and a fledgling economic recovery depends, in part, on them making more of them. But increasing loan defaults in a distressed commercial real estate market is making it a riskier business. Troubled commercial real estate loans are expected to add to the growing number of U.S. bank failures. In turn, a federal regulator is pushing banks in North Jersey and around the country to reduce their commercial real estate, by either curtailing lending, writing off or selling loans, or by raising additional capital to offset the increased risk.
New Iceland, eh? ("Old, White Maine," BDN editorial May, 19.) Now just how exactly are these Icelandic descendants of Vikings and Celts going to make Maine less white? And younger? The median age in Iceland is only about five years less than Maine's, whereas a country like Mexico's median age is 15 years younger. And the chances of highly educated and urbanized Icelanders (most Icelanders are highly educated and English-speaking and live in Reykjavik) coming to rural Washington County to do unskilled work are not that great. Most Icelanders would expect a serious music and language program in their children's schools. Most Icelanders would be appalled by a health care system rationed by income and class. Most Icelanders would expect to find roads and bridges safe and repaired. Most Ice...
What do you call a press conference when the press attends but refuses to publicize the event? No, that's not a riddle. It's a legitimate question. Last week, UMaine's Bureau of Labor Education held a press conference on campus to call attention to the Employee Fair Choice Act now being debated in the U.S. Senate. It passed the House easily. The press conference was to urge Sens. Snowe and Collins to back the bill. WABI-TV had a camera there, so I eagerly watched Channel 5 news that evening, but there was not one word about the press conference. I watched the morning news the next day - not one word. I combed the Bangor Daily News - not one word. I guess what you call a press conference that no one covers a labor-oriented press conference. If it were corporations denouncing the bill a...
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