Though Maine resident Doug Cowie just celebrated his 75th birthday in October, it was only this past January that he retired from the Maine Public Utility Commission (PUC) where he worked for 18 years. It would be easy to think of Cowie as an innocuous grandfatherly [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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It’s my 52nd birthday today. How many years has it been since Joseph McCarthy et al cut the balls of our Constitution? Now it’s Bush et al, only Bush is just the knife-wielder. There’s somebody secret and quiet behind Dick Cheney. And someone secret and quiet behind that guy, too.
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