Last week, Gov. Janet Mills’s policies concerning COVID vaccines were vindicated by the U.S. Supreme Court, though – strangely – no one seems to have noticed. It was Mills’s decision, early in the pandemic’s Delta variant phase, to mandate shots for health care workers at a time when the federal government was still studying the […]
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Commentary: Taliban 2.0 aren’t so different from the first regime, after all
The international community is closely monitoring the Taliban, after the group re-seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021. There is legitimate reason for concern. The Taliban are again ruling through fear and draconian rules. The Taliban’s last regime, in the mid-1990s, was marked by human rights violations, including massacres, mass detentions and rape. The regime […]
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Commentary: Why massive new youth sports facilities may not lead to the tourist boom many communities hope for when they build them
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Parents who travel with their kids to compete in regional sports tournaments tend to be too focused on the competition to turn them into family vacations and spend like tourists, according to our recently published research. This is bad news to […]
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Local roundup: Gray-New Gloucester girls basketball holds off Mt. Ararat
Patriots get three players to score in double figures en route to the Class A South victory.
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Commentary: How targeted advertising on social media drives people to extremes
Have you had the experience of looking at some product online and then seeing ads for it all over your social media feed? Far from coincidence, these instances of eerily accurate advertising provide glimpses into the behind-the-scenes mechanisms that feed an item you search for on Google, “like” on social media or come across while […]
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Letter: Brunswick mask mandate is for the greater good of all
A guest column on Jan. 11 (“Brunswick business owners should not have had mask mandate thrust upon them,” The Times Record) appeared to be about the effect of mandated mask-wearing by patrons of Brunswick businesses. However, nine paragraphs began with “I” and in all, it was used 23 times. He does not consider the “we” who […]
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Commentary: 5 things I’ve learned curating the MLK Collection at Morehouse College
For the past 11 years, civil rights historian Vicki Crawford has worked as the director of the Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Collection, where she oversees the archive consisting of iconic sermons, speeches, writings and other materials belonging to King. Few archives of historical papers compare with the importance of the Morehouse King Collection. […]
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Rich Manieri: Does Biden really know what he’s saying?
Misspeaking requires some knowledge of what you’re saying. For example, if you meant to order a Diet Coke but ordered a regular Coke because you didn’t specify “diet,” you would have realized, either at that moment or, when you took your first sip, that you misspoke. In a particularly divisive, Jan. 11 voting rights speech […]
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John Micek: About the GOP’s historical amnesia on voting rights
If you get into an argument with a Republican about the GOP’s lamentable support for voting rights and its fractured relationship with Black Americans, it won’t be long before your rhetorical sparring partner bellows “Robert Byrd” at you and declares the argument over. The logic here, if it even can be called that, is that […]
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Local roundup: Boothbay girls basketball falls to Spruce Mountain
Giovanna Warren scores seven points for Seahawks.