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Senter Fund soliciting grant requests from nonprofits

The Alfred M. Senter Fund is soliciting requests for grants that will support charities for which small grants will make a significant difference. The Alfred M. Senter Fund is a private charitable trust authorized to make grants to any public charity that provides a service in Maine. The fund was established by Alfred Senter the […]

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Letters: Green bridge preservation proponents costing taxpayers millions; CMP customer service a maddening experience

Brunswick-Topsham bridge preservation proponents costing taxpayers millions with appeal Discussions of the health and safety of the Frank J Wood bridge date as far back as the mid ’90s when the Coastal Connector was proposed. At that time, the bridge was already beyond its 50-year expected life span. Every engineering report noted the failing condition […]

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Michael Reagan: Trump’s endorsements can hurt GOP

Will Donald Trump’s endorsements in the 2022 Republican primaries be a double-edged sword for the party? Based on the surprising results of this week’s special House runoff election in Texas, they could be. The Republican-only election in a congressional district near Fort Worth was a runoff between Susan Wright, who was endorsed by Trump, and […]

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Commentary: Big tech has a vaccine misinformation problem – here’s what a social media expert recommends

With less than half the United States population fully vaccinated for COVID-19 and as the delta variant sweeps the nation, the U.S. surgeon general issued an advisory that called misinformation an urgent threat to public health. The advisory said efforts by social media companies to combat misinformation are “too little, too late and still don’t […]

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Commentary: The largest news agency in the US changes crime reporting practices to ‘do less harm and give people second chances’

When suspects’ names appear in crime stories, their lives may be broken and never put back together. For years, people have begged The Associated Press, known as the “AP,” to scrub their indiscretions from its archives. Some of those requests “were heart-rending,” said John Daniszewski, standards vice president at AP who helped to spearhead the […]

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Gordon Weil: Abortion case – Can Supreme Court protect rights not in Constitution?

A major new abortion case is coming. Possibly even more important is the sleeper issue that arrives with it. The case just brought by Mississippi for Supreme Court consideration next year is about both abortion itself and individual rights. The abortion issue is widely understood. Less so, individual rights. Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch wants […]