Starbucks is expected to raise the prices of select drinks on July 12 by as much as 30 cents. How will this affect your coffee-drinking habits? It won’t; I prefer Dunkin Donuts/ other shop 36% It won’t; I don’t drink co Z ee. 20% It won’t; I don’t like fancy coffee anyway. Make mine black! […]
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When it comes to the dentist, reality bites
This could very well make me insane, but when I walk out of a dentist’s office after a cleaning, my teeth always feel cold. Like, sweaterless in winter cold. Two weeks in a meat locker cold. Swimming with polar bears in a pair of boxer shorts cold. And furthermore, cold. Actually I guess it’s the […]
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Editorial Roundup
The Providence Journal (R.I.), July 7: When it comes to charity, your inner compass should be your guide. Are you moved to help refugees? Endow university chairs? Clean up rivers? Neuter cats? You are free to do so. You may even feel obligated to do so, if you are blessed with more money than you […]
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The Day (New London, Conn.), July 5: Boasting 96 miles of beautiful coastline, 500 miles of bays and inlets, and numerous scenic lakes and rivers, Connecticut is a boating paradise. Despite this, boating is declining in the state. Over the past decade, the number of registered recreational boats declined by 14,000, a 10 percent dip. […]
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Harvard study: As Trump won, media coverage turned sharply negative
A new report from Harvard University says press coverage of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign become progressively more negative as Trump built a lead in the Republican primaries – and soared after Trump clinched the GOP nomination. A graph in the report from the Shorenstein Center of Media, Politics and Public Policy forms an almost perfect […]
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Stackpole Bridge: Saga of deep concerns
Preserving the historical Stackpole Bridge was a project approved at referendum in November 2014 in the amount of $990,000. The lowest bidder was Chesterfield Associates ($839,500), and the next lowest was CPM ($1,192,756). The city council awarded the contract to the latter, the preferred contractor of the Stackpole Bridge group. Central to this project was […]
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Historical society thanks supporters
The Arundel Historical Society would like to take the opportunity to thank these individuals for their contributions to improve the site at our North Chapel Common Project: Cape Arundel Cottage Preserve, through the efforts of Joe Paolini, developer and managing partner, donated their own site gravel, and Bentley Warren, owner of Bentley’s Saloon, supplied the […]