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Every year, the Associated Press here polls Maine journalists and in December announces what the journalists believe is the most important story of the year. For 2004, they said the most important story was that voters rejected both the tax-cap and bear-baiting referendums. The year before, it was the New Sweden arsenic poisoning, and, the year before that, the Allagash Wilderness Waterway crash, which killed 14 migrant workers. All three choices were wrong.
The most important story for those years is so often present in so many variations, both subtle and tragically obvious, that not seeing it, or thinking it exists only elsewhere, is almost understandable. The most important story then and certainly in this new year is the war on terrorism. It has changed Maine, just as it has changed all other states, in ways that a tax vote, a poisoning or even a horrible auto accident have not.See the full content of this document
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For Story of the Year, Connect the Dots
By the war on terrorism I mean the government's actions since Sept. 11, 2001, to shield the nation from another attack like the ones in New York and Washington and its reach across the planet to capture or kill people associated with those attacks...
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