10 years ago From the Journal Tribune: “A new president has been chosen to lead the University of New England and will be taking the helm this summer. Danielle N. Ripich, Ph.D. will be the fifth president of the university and will succeed current President Sandra Featherman. In November, Featherman announced she would be retiring […]
2016
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Today in History
Today is Wednesday, Jan. 6, the sixth day of 2016. There are 360 days left in the year. On this date: In 1540, England’s King Henry VIII married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. (The marriage lasted about six months.) In 1759, George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis were married in New Kent County, Virginia. […]
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Today’s Highlight in History:
On Jan. 6, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his State of the Union address, outlined a goal of “Four Freedoms”: Freedom of speech and expression; the freedom of people to worship God in their own way; freedom from want; freedom from fear. Ten years ago Al-Qaida’s No. 2 official, Ayman al-Zawahri, said in a […]
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Downton Shabby
We’re having trouble with one of our downstairs servants. We cannot get her to stop saying, “Do you want fries with that?” when we order dinner. Of course, like on “Downton Abbey,” we have hundreds of cooks and scullery maids. They just work at McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King and Applebee’s. We also have a staff […]
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Money rolls in, yet future dim for Carson campaign
As it has for months, Ben Carson’s campaign is raising a lot of money. The Republican presidential candidate raised $23 million in the last quarter of 2015 – ahead of red-hot Ted Cruz and, likely, all other rivals in the Republican field. At the same time, Carson is plunging in the polls. On Nov. 5, […]
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Editorial Roundup
The Providence Journal (R.I.), Jan. 2, 2016 Rather than leave a sufficient force to prevent a power vacuum in Iraq, the United States precipitously withdrew all of its combat troops at the end of 2011, putting at risk years of enormously costly efforts to create a stable country and ally in place of the bellicose […]
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Super PACs prolong flagging presidential campaigns
WASHINGTON — Jeb Bush’s recent cancellation of advertising plans in Iowa and South Carolina was yet another cost-saving step for a down-in-the polls presidential campaign that had already thinned its staff. If not for his flush super PAC, the Republican might be gone from the contest by now. That group, Right to Rise, has burned […]
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DHHS program links patients with services
WASHINGTON (AP) — Doctors, community workers and social researchers have long recognized a link between the hardships of poverty and health problems. Now the government is launching an experiment to see if seamless social work can improve the health of vulnerable Medicare and Medicaid recipients, and perhaps even lower costs, by heading off emergency room […]
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Peggy Morrison
BIDDEFORD — Peggy “Margaret” Morrison, 79, of Saco, passed away on Sunday, Jan. 3, 2016, at Southern Maine Healthcare in Biddeford. Mrs. Morrison was born in Portland on Nov. 22, 1936, a daughter of Jeremiah and Helena Mae (Callan) Guiney. She was raised in Saco and graduated from Thornton Academy, Class of 1954. She also […]