“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always […]
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Health self-management in elderly populations key to combatting coronavirus
As the coronavirus threatens Maine’s elder communities, it’s clear that our most at-risk populations must watch their own day-to-day health even more closely. This is especially true in the Pine Tree State, one of the oldest in the nation. More than one-fifth of Maine’s population is older than 65, meaning the pandemic poses an even greater risk than […]
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Commentary: Neighborhood-based friendships making a comeback for kids in the age of coronavirus
As the weather has warmed in my Midwestern town, my neighborhood is full of children on bicycles pretending to be riding through the Wild West. I can’t walk down the sidewalk without stepping on chalk drawings or hopscotch boards. There are children jumping rope and playing ball. In the eight years I’ve lived here, I’ve […]
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Douglas Rooks: How to get to ‘Medicare for all’
For the first time in years, countless Americans are going through their daily lives with a pervasive sense of dread. That it comes amid new evidence that the nation’s super-high priced health care system is inadequate for dealing with a pandemic only increases the worry. Even before the coronavirus, the beachhead established by the Affordable […]
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Restauranters who put customer safety first should be rewarded I recently ran across an interesting Maine video on YouTube. It was made by the group of businesspeople who had filed a class-action suit against Gov. Janet Mills. The aim of the lawsuit was to force Gov. Mills to open eating and drinking establishments in the […]
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David Treadwell: All the world’s her stage
So I was sitting in my seat at the Maine State Music Theatre last summer waiting for the curtain to open on the musical classic, “Hello Dolly,” and I struck up a conversation with the man to my right. “Where are you from?” I asked. “Carlisle, Pennsylvania,” he responded. “And what brings you to Brunswick?” […]
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Guest column: COVID’s silver lining
Call me an incorrigible optimist. I spent so many years of my life in melancholy. But I have surprised myself – and my friends, too – that, with age, I have made an effort to see the silver lining in things. That may sound counter-intuitive. As one gets older these days and things start falling […]
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Giving Voice: Now we know how it feels
With the arrival of COVID-19 to Maine, all dental practices were forced to close for everything except emergency care in mid-March. Just like that, all of us lost access to dental care. As the closure went from weeks to months, many of us started to worry about how we were going to have our teeth […]
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Letters: A note of thanks; candidate supporters sound off
A note of thanks I was stuck in the water following Saturday’s downpour in downtown Bath. Due to my poor judgment, I ended up stalled as the water could not drain fast enough from the rain. I then called 911, and emergency crews showed up in minutes. Someone slogged out to me in the knee-deep […]
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Gordon Weil: For political gain, Trump degrades science
A boy sat in church, looking up at the chandelier as it swayed in the breeze. It seemed always to take the same time to go from one end of its swing to the other, no matter how far it traveled. To turn idle observation into proven fact, he knew he needed hard evidence. He […]