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Remembering the Maine ice storm of ’98

None of us will ever forget the winter of our discontent, when ice-burdened trees toppled and crashed like bowling pins, dragging down the wires which until that instant had, like veins, carried our home-life blood to us, keeping our homes functioning and throbbing with life. Impotent now, the wires spread across the ground in grids […]

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The good and the bad of Jimmy Carter

His tenure as president was punctuated with unrelenting adversity, tortured from the outset by obscenely high inflation and a post-Vietnam-and-Watergate nation that had a sour disposition. His fragmented administration was disproportionately populated by political cronies from his home state of Georgia. His micromanaging style drew widespread derision and his right of center values resulted in […]