By now, the storyline, and the statistics, are almost mind-numbingly familiar. In rural counties of Maine, as in those of neighboring states, COVID rates have gone off the charts amid the worst wave of the pandemic. Hospitals are overwhelmed, health networks are overstretched and the National Guard has been called out. Yet we haven’t focused […]
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Local roundup: Lisbon boys basketball cruises past Oak Hill
Charlie Doyle, Levi Tibbetts each score 16 points for Greyhounds.
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Commentary: ‘Strangers in their own land’: Iraqi Yazidis and their plight, 7 years on from genocide
Each year in the second week of December, Iraqi Yazidis, an ethnoreligious minority in northern Iraq, celebrate Rojiet Ezi, a festival that follows three days of fasting. During my ethnographic fieldwork in a refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2019, I witnessed how this festival brings joy to the displaced Yazidis as they celebrate with […]
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Dick Polman: Democrats have failed to protect abortion rights
So it looks like Roe v. Wade is perched at the precipice. Gee, I wonder how that happened. Let me count the ways. Conservative Republicans started prioritizing a high court takeover, with the explicit aim of ending legal abortion, more than 40 years ago. In 1980, Ronald Reagan’s GOP introduced new language in its party […]
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Local roundup: Mt. Ararat girls basketball cruises past Camden Hills
Camden Hills boys basketball edges Mt. Ararat.
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Joe Guzzardi: Elon Musk’s uninformed plea for more babies
At The Wall Street Journal’s annual Chief Executive Officers’ council, Elon Musk, the world’s richest man whose net worth is an estimated $290 billion, sounded an alarm. If people don’t start procreating at an accelerated level, civilization will crumble, Musk trumpeted. Musk worries about what he identified as the “low birth rate and the rapidly […]
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The Conversation: The U.S. doesn’t have enough faculty to train the next generation of nurses
THE CONVERSATION — Despite a national nursing shortage in the United States, over 80,000 qualified applications were not accepted at U.S. nursing schools in 2020, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. This was due primarily to a shortage of nursing professors and a limited number of clinical placements where nursing students get practical job […]
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Local roundup: Morse boys basketball edges Freeport
Gabe Aucoin scores 30 points to carry Shipbuilders.
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John Micek: What should happen if abortion returns to the states?
To say there’s a lot riding on the U.S. Supreme Court’s eventual ruling in a case challenging Mississippi’s restrictive abortion ban is a galactic understatement. If, as currently appears the case, the court effectively topples Roe v. Wade, the 1973 precedent that declared a constitutional right to abortion, regulation of the practice would return to […]
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Carl Golden: Republicans in disarray
When Republican victories narrowed the partisan gap in the House of Representatives to eight seats in 2020 (221-213) and followed it this year by prevailing in the Virginia gubernatorial race, the party was positively ecstatic about its ever-brightening future and enormously enhanced odds of winning Congressional control in the 2022 midterms. With those gains in […]