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Seniors Not Acting Their Age: Exciting adventures on Seboeis River, Part I — Tiger Rips to Snowshoe Lodge

Forty years ago, my wife, Nancy, and I paddled the iconic Seboeis River canoe trip from Grand Lake Road west of Shin Pond to Whetstone Falls on the East Branch of the Penobscot with our friends John and Diane Stokinger. Twenty years later, I descended the turbulent upper Seboeis to Grand Lake Road with a […]

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The Conversation: COVID-19 clawbacks, spending caps and a cut — what House Republicans got in return for pushing the U.S. to the brink of default

THE CONVERSATION — House Republicans pushed the U.S. to the edge of a fiscal crisis because they wanted deep cuts in government spending. So, based on the deal President Joe Biden signed into law on June 3, 2023, how did they do? In broad strokes, the deal suspends the debt limit until January 2025, freezes nondefense discretionary funding […]

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Gordon L. Weil: Debt ceiling ‘crisis’ pure political theater

America, hope you enjoyed the political theater. Because that’s what all the anguish over the debt ceiling amounted to. In the real world, relatively little has happened. Congress had voted for public spending, but the outlays could only be covered by new borrowing, because tax revenues wouldn’t be sufficient. That would boost the national debt. […]

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Joe Guzzardi: Pregnant moms at the border, thanks to immigration policy

President Biden’s welcome-the-world border policy presents graver challenges than just admitting an estimated 10 million worldwide migrants by the time the Biden term ends in January 2025. Among the migrants are convicted criminals and terrorists on the FBI’s watch list. And needing specialized attention are pregnant women. A Time story, “Pregnant Asylum-Seekers Needed Help at […]

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Carl Golden: Biden campaign to take a ‘Where’s Waldo’ approach

While the contours of President Biden’s re-election campaign have yet to come into focus, early signs imply leaning greatly on surrogates to shoulder the heavy burden of promoting the president’s record and engaging in aggressive negativity against his opponent. The strategy suggests shielding the president from the media and maintaining tight control over his public […]