[GenXFreedomFighter]

What you say is true; most of the shops in town are closed on Sunday (except the soulless big chain stores like Wal-Mart) and for the most part people here have their heads on straight. We went for Bush in the 2000 election by a comfortable margin. There may be a shift here, though. The homosexual community here keeps getting stronger, and there is an initiative to extend health insurance benefits to homosexual partners of city employees. I hope our city passes this test of character.

[Alas]

Perhaps it is time for a letter to the editor from a Mainer who can document the probems that come along with giving same sex coverage insurance to homosexuals. When Portland did it a couple of years ago, it had such a drastic increase in premiums, that the following year, the pay raise teachers recieved did not cover the increase in insurance premiums.