To Comfort The Afflicted
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To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

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After Snowe, Is Brown Next?

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BY FROMA HARROP To many New Englanders, Olympia Snowe had come to resemble Marilyn of The Munsters TV family. The senator from Maine seemed a normal Northeast Republican surrounded by party leaders sprouting fangs and cooing at bats – but who regarded her as the odd one. “You can’t be too careful these days,” Herman Munster, a Frankenstein-monster clone, would tenderly advise the wholesome Marilyn. “There are a lot of strange people in this world.” To the […]

Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton became editor of The Observer in September 2006. Previously, he served nearly two decades as the Dallas Morning News’ Oklahoma Bureau chief. He also covered government and politics for the San Jose Mercury News, the Dallas Times Herald, the Tulsa Tribune and the Oklahoma Journal.