Police brutality has a long history of being protected, reinforced and even redoubled for more than a century in the U.S. through a combination of political expediency and racism. President Donald Trump’s executive order and the stalled bills in Congress to curb police misconduct are, at best, attempts to retune an instrument that was orchestrated […]
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$17M paving project continues, tie-ups possible in Bath area
BATH — A $17 million road paving project in the Bath area will result in ramp closures and possible traffic tie-ups in the coming week. The Maine Department of Transportation is slated to perform the paving work on Route 1 in Bath and Brunswick. It’s part of ongoing work that begins at the Cook’s Corner […]
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Letters: Candidate endorsements
Vote Daughtry As a resident in Maine’s Senate District 24 I am very pleased to be able to vote for Mattie Daughtry to replace Brownie Carson in the Senate in the upcoming primary election this month. Brownie has done an inspiring job and Mattie will continue this work, shown by her record as Representative for […]
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Maine Idea: Renewing faith in hard times
“Reopening” has hit some major setbacks. The heedlessness of the president and his followers is a big part of the problem. Yet coronavirus numbers present a clear picture: They’re rising throughout the South and West, including some “blue” states whose leaders have been somewhat more cautious than GOP governors in Texas, Florida and Arizona, who […]
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John Micek: Trump’s lawsuit building the case for discrediting the election
Credit Donald Trump with this much: When he finds a riff, he sticks with it. For the better part of four years now, despite an utter paucity of evidence, the nation’s 45th president has claimed that our electoral system is so rife with voter fraud results cannot be trusted. The opening salvo came in 2016 […]
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David Treadwell: Finding new ways to dream
“We had achieved far more than most We gave the world new ways to dream Everyone needs new ways to dream.” These lyrics were sung in the poignant Broadway musical “Sunset Boulevard,” which is about an aging actress who yearns for the days when she reigned as the queen of the stage. I thought about […]
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Giving Voice: Homelessness in the southern Midcoast through the lens of COVID-19
As I write this in late June, we are entering our fifth month of the COVID-19 pandemic in Maine. Back in March, in response to the suddenness and increasing severity this national health crisis, Tedford Housing, like many other organizations serving people experiencing homelessness, began changing and adapting in order to adhere to the evolving […]
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Gordon Weil: Covid-19 fails as GOP ‘wedge issue’
We have just attended the birth of a “wedge issue.” Its father is Donald Trump. Its name is “Reopen now.” The issue is about whether to wear masks and restrict business operations as ways of limiting the spread of COVID-19. The purpose of the wedge is to create a new voting bloc out of the […]
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Angus King: Helping ‘Vacationland’s’ seasonal businesses through the summer of Coronavirus
Each year, millions of people look forward to their week or two in Maine – to breathe our air, take in our natural beauty, make memories – and in turn, Maine’s businesses look forward to welcoming them. As we all know, tourism contributes to more than just inns or hotels; restaurants, shops, gas stations and […]
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Letters: Vote Horch; Vote Daughtry
Vote Horch I am writing in support of K. Frederick (Fred) Horch), the Green Independent candidate for the office of Representative (49th District, Brunswick) in the State of Maine Legislature. With his background in the environmental field Fred is uniquely qualified to participate and lead in addressing this and other major concerns — among them […]