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Tech Talk: The Necessity of Updating
By Kevin Staples Kevin Staples is a member of the Computer Technically Senior Seminar course and is planning a career in Computer Networking and Hardware. You can see what I am doing in the course by going to http://www.kevinstaples.com Do you update your computer regularly? If you do then that’s great your computer should be… Read more
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Poetic License
By Patrick Doyle Perform every chance you get. Put on a mascarade, pull back from reality. In the New York City subway, I saw performances. Barbershop Quarter paid to a paper bag. A beat-rap bouncing off Ebola in NYC. Ebola came to NYC and I got to see in the flesh a response on some… Read more
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An interview with Sam Underwood
By Garrick Hoffman In the last issue, we presented an interview with SMCC student Sam Underwood, who spent this fall season working for the Maine Democratic Party in support of Mike Michaud. This is the second of three installments. If you don’t see yourself working with politics in the future, how else do you think… Read more
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Why We Need Election Reform in Maine
By Ian Ziller There are many election reforms needed, but one that I shall discuss and that we should be considering is a change in our election process called instant-runoff voting. Instant-runoff voting, or ranked choice voting, allows the voter to rank the candidates in order of preference, eliminating the candidate who receives the lowest… Read more
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