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Clinton campaign is boring, but effective
What has Hillary Clinton been doing while Donald Trump has been careening from one controversy to the next? She’s been traveling the country giving speeches about jobs, hammering Trump on the economy, and mostly avoiding press contact that could bring attention to her email scandal, the Clinton Foundation, or her record as Secretary of State. […]
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Concord Monitor (N.H.), Aug. 5: Pink 2.0, the pig whose life was so affectionately chronicled for six months by Monitor reporter Elodie Reed, is no more. Reed told us all along that Pink 2.0’s cozy routine at Miles Smith Farm in Loudon would come to this – a “humane” death in a local slaughterhouse. No […]
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An election that moves US off all its moorings
KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine — A full century ago, the 28th president – a professor as much as a politician – counseled the man who would become the 32nd chief executive that there was a predictable tide in the nation’s politics. Woodrow Wilson shaped the perspective of the young Franklin Delano Roosevelt indelibly when he told him […]
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Record-Journal (Conn.), Aug. 5: To say the run-up to the Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics was rocky would be a supreme understatement. Stories – some quite shocking – about the Brazilian city being woefully unprepared to host the Games have been in headlines for months. The tales range from the forgivable: A collapsed boat launch […]
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No love for Trump
Once, I was at a party and I had to use the bathroom. When I was done, I realized that I had to wait and flush again. I don’t want to see that again, steadily, for four years in the form of Donald Trump. Ty KashmirySanford
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Biddeford tax dollars going to wrong place
Mayor Casavant has devoted the bulk of his administration’s time and effort to the downtown area. Yet the commercial tax base in the City of Biddeford isn’t located there. The largest taxpayers in the city are located in the southern area of Biddeford, and far from the downtown. Per the 2015 city financial statement, they […]